"Fear no more", is derived from the play Cymbeline, one of his later comedies. ... Line five stands for a larger body of people, those regarded of high standard in society who are not immune to the inescapability of death, so they are just the same as everything that is mortal- there are no classes in death. ...
A metaphor is derived from a simile in that it equates different things without using connecting terms such as like or as. ... Other symbols are private or personal; having a special significance derived from their particular use by an author. ... Two things I have acquired from this class are that there is more to literature than just plays, poems, and nonfiction stories. ...
Yet by exposing these foibles "through characteristics of the sylphs rather than of Belinda herself" Pope is fulfilling the workings of satire, showing us a society obsessed with superficial splendour, class and social status. ... In Canto III, we have a fine example of subtlety of Pope's satire, this time a comment on the obsession on the society of early eighteenth century with class and the aristocracy. ... This type of satire was not, however, founded by Pope, rather it derives from ancient works of the great Roman poet Horace. ...
Walt Whitman(1819-1892), broke the literary tradition of his time with regards to content, form and style of his vigorous verse. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), while living a life of seclusion, was very audacious mentally, revealing a complex psyche struggling to press her inner conflicts, which she interprets through the creative and reflective act of language. Writing about sex, (the) human body, many other "taboo" subjects and common objects and people, Whitman and Dickinson address the larger matters of life, namely death and religion. Although they often deal with the same themes...
