... used to show the way in which the persona's imaginative journey opens his mind to the beauty of nature, turning "imprisonment" under a lime-tree bower into a pleasure. Sensory imagery is used to emphasise the beauty of nature, and highlights the contrast between the persona's attitude before and ... conversational tone. "Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison!" The word "prison" gives a connotation of darkness and cold, communicating the persona's negative attitude towards the lime-tree bower at this point in time. Through the conversational tone, the ...

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... his head shaved, he told him to look on the bright side of things. Then, he further comforts Tom that his dream foretells a delightful life. The poem ends with a "cold" day, however Tom was "happy & warm" because he believes as long as he is doing what he has been told to do, he would not have to ... the children. In the "Nurse's Song" of Songs of Innocence, the illustration shows the nurse sitting under the lower branch of a tree twined with vines, and watching the children dancing joyfully in a circle. The apple tree leans protectively over the children as they play; however it does n...

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... quite so fully as The World Is Too Much With Us. A comparison made between Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman and The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Coleridge effectively demonstrates the validity of this assertion. Romantic Poetry in the 19th Century Romanticism in the 19th century ... in the way that the whole of the poem involves an idealization of nature. Coleridge apparently wrote this poem while temporarily confined under a Lime tree as a result of an accident, and while his friends were out walking in the surrounding area. The poem basically involves an imaginary stroll ...

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... develop these ideas, as this image mirrors the 19th century views of women. While attached to the tree, leaves are thought of as being full of life. Leaves add beauty to a tree, as a tree with leaves is more visually pleasing than that of the image of a bare tree. After nature takes its course, and the leaves begin to fall, the image is drastically altered ... , are now referred to as being "dead." These images parallel the images of women in society. In the 19th century, women were not taken seriously; much like the leaves on a tree, women were not much more than visually pleasing aspec...

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... ". The stories of the past are an integral part of the observer's relationship with the land. An even bleaker view emerges in the poem "Flame Tree in a Quarry". The juxtaposition suggested in the title of the "flame tree" in the "quarry" sets up the negative impact of time on nature, as the beauty of the ... tree is taken over by the quarry. It seems that nature is sacrificed this time to the commercial activity of the quarry but Wright only refers to "quarry" in ... perceive an inescapable correspondence with the processes of our own bodies" and this is clearly elucidated in the poem....

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... imprisoned in the coldness of her frustration, grief and sorrow before Phorphyro later on brings experience and warmth into her life. In the poem "The Eve of Saint Agnes" the cold imagery plays an important role as it symbolizes the theme of innocence before experience in the poem, the state of loneliness and imprisonment before freedom as her church and religion ... filled with sorrow, frustration and the coldness of the church of her chastity. Bitter also gives a feeling of chill because of the alliteration sound of "T" that creates a harsh tone. "Was a cold" in the first stanza also ...

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... yet it is clear to the reader that the man didn't feel that way and was crying for help, for someone to notice what was happening beneath the surface. The cold factual tone of "And now he's dead" shows that the people felt little real remorse over his death and so had no good relationship with him, which emphasis the isolation ... of the man. The line "It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way" is ambiguous as it describes how he really died, the cold water, and his spiritual death: the people were just "too cold" and unfeeling towards him that his heart died. The short last...

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... unsurprising that several of the poems of the Lyrical Ballads provide direct commentary on poetry itself and how poetic experience relates to nature. Both Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree and The Nightingale, poems coupled together in the first edition of the ballads, testify to men of poetic temperament whose sensibilities lead them to be misguided. The man in the ... Yew-Tree becomes melancholy and eventually dies as he contains himself within a natural setting which he assigns a "morbid pleasure". The most important thematic idea of this poem is that nature should not ... ...

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... , political and religious metaphors to emphasize the depth of her love for her husband. Although there isn't necessarily a "clear" volta in terms of its use as a "twist," something Paul Fussell notes as "indeed indispensable" due to its lack of execution, we see the seventh and eighth line summarize the metaphors in just one line as opposed to it being spread over ... ...

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... than a human being in "He was hauled in with the fish" through association with the fish. Then, Heaney broadens the perspective by saying "Now limbo will be/A cold glitter of souls/Through some far briny zone" (16-18). As mentioned before, limbo is where those who cannot reach heaven yet do not deserve hell go, and an ... infant not yet baptized will end up there, so by saying limbo will be "A cold glitter of souls", Heaney is saying that there are many other souls that suffered similar fates to the infant, capitalizing on the amount of pain and suffering the Catholic ... ...

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... character in the poem, "Stealing", is portrays as less energetic and bored out. In the poem, the persona clearly mentions that he "want(s) a mate with a mind as cold as the slice of ice within my own brain". This presents the persona as a friendless and rather lonely being who seeks to have a 'mate' to support him. However ... , the persona also mentions that his 'mind as cold as the slice of ice within' his 'own brain' which implies to how the persona is emotionless, thus linking to how he thinks about himself, as an insensitive person ... ...

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... , with more positive religious imagery being employed ("fatuous sunbeams"). The personification ("kind, old sun"), sympathetic background ("the snow"), and repetition of light imagery that Owen utilises ("cold star old sun") all add to the cold, yet ultimately hopeful feel of the first verse. The many rhetorical questions that Owen uses in the second verse ("too hard to stir?") contradict the first verse ... ...

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... the emotions that generated this form of artistic expression was not on a par with the expression itself This is indicated by the last line of the poem, where the speaker notes that the piano player "slept like a rock or a man that's dead." The key word here is "or," for it denotes the imprecision of the speaker's understanding. What the blues articulates ... ...

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... humanistic ideals. The Waste Land is a reckless experiment in poetry; its style and language are highly complicated and symbolic and full of erudite allusions. In 1936 the poet even attached Notes on the Waste Land to the edition in order to explain the work's many quotations and allusions. The publication won Eliot an international reputation of incontestable master of verse-making ... ...

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... for the inescapable entrapment it is. She then speaks of her grass and how it "flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes around me this year- (4-6). The term "cold fire,"" an oxymoron, is a significant aspect of this poem in that it simply relays the widow's emotional state while providing the irony a modernist, like Williams ... ...

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... with the complete lack of comfort offered in Experience's version. Here the sweep's unfeeling sanctimonious parents have clothed him in the clothes of death and taught him to sing the notes of woe. Religion is seen to be firmly on the side of the parents who are both gone up to the church to pray'. God himself is implicated in the ... ...

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... those that are long dead. Chandler's dormant perceptions arise as he looks into the face of his wife, whom symbolically, by the pact of marriage, is a mirror for himself. Her cold passionless eyes are a reflection of what it is she is gazing upon, and at the moment of the story, it is Chandler. Ironic that chandler perceives more from his wife ... form resembling the rapture of a poet's soul, is in the pathetic encounter which his own son. It is quickly ended by him trying to sooth the child, and having its cold mother burst in with a resentment and accusation, snatching the infant from...

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... are generally very lyrical and of course, particularly in Donne's poetry, they are very witty. In the early to mid 19th century, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote some rather subjective critical notes on the metaphysical poets and in particular Donne's poetry. He says "to read (the metaphysical poetry) you need only count syllables, but to read Donne you must measure time, and ... ...

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... who is very disturbed and confused, the mood that is conveyed is bleak and depressing. "I wanted him, a mate with a mind as cold as the slice of ice within my own brain" "Better of dead than giving in" words such as "cold" "ice" "frozen" "thrill" and "ghost" All denote a feeling of coldness, thrill and eeriness; it also signifies the coldness, harshness and sadistic ... ...

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... crushes this link through alliteration "dim dazzling blades advancing through a trolley-borne trunk till it sags apart" suggesting movement in the saws robbing any further movements in the tree. It becomes evident, that the readers' positive sense of place cannot prevail forever as a result of having their landscape's identity destroyed. In contrast, Werner depicts her own sense of connection ... ...

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... . Even when "About her head, [the speaker] writhing hung,And with rich clusters (hid among the leaves) her temples I behungLucia seemed to [the speaker]/Young Bacchus ravished by his tree" (1655). This reconfirms Herrick's classical influences in his use of references to present voyeuristic content. In doing so, Herrick desensitizes his audience to the graphic nature of his work ... ...

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... waiting for his wife to come home. Hardy sets the scene in the beginning of the poem, reinforcing an isolated setting. The stanza opens with the use of personification; "Tree-leaves labour up and down" which creates a dark and eerie tone. The verb "labour" infers the trees are being forced to move hinting the trees are being ... ...

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... same full moon, though "The Dream " is certainly far more diverse in both plant and animal matter. The snake charmer is found standing under branches of the same kind of tree in both paintings, later described by Plath as "heart-shaped " and "like catalpa leaves " ("Yadighwa, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies, " 6). Amazingly, these jungle environments were created "from visits to the ... ...

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... indicated the degeneration of his character. For example, first, he is a lesser angel; then he is a cherub when he communicates to Uriel; after that he is a voracious cormorant in the tree of life with an animal nature but able to fly, a tiger and a lion who are preying beasts; and, finally, he is a toad and a snake. Satan tempts Adam and Eve only ... ...

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... "bitter" create detachment and a coldness surrounding the return of these soldiers. The telegrams "tremble" under the burden of the news they carry to families and the link to the "wintering tree" emphasizes the number of those killed on the field. The vivid image of the "spider grief" in his "bitter geometry" connects to the "wide web" displaying to the audience the ... ...

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