Shorter lines represent short quick concise thoughts and long breathy paragraphs represent an idea much longer and more complicated. ... Materialism is the general evil that haunts Ginsberg and he preaches against it in Sunflower Sutra. ... "Gnarled steel roots of trees of machinery" represent the massive metal machines that crawl through our entirely urban landscape and litter our skylines with buildings and shopping malls. Anything that is gnarled is twisted and often has a tendency to be evil and hideous the world itself strikes fear into hearts yong and old. ...

• Word Count: 1238
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The anonymous person in "Education for Leisure" represents an evil persona by his belief of playing God. ... He expresses his thoughts by stating his desires; this represents arrogance for his needs as he sets a challenge to everyone. ... Moreover, the persona in "Education for Leisure" is presented more evil-minded, when he states that as he "pour(s) the goldfish down the bog" and "pull(s) the chain", he feels pleasure and content for the actions he does. ...

• Word Count: 1128
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Here Plato shows a preference for straight narrative, in that by simply narrating events the poet may avoid entirely the explicit imitation of those characters he is speaking of, and the actors, too, can avoid placing themselves in a situation where they would imitate the evil acts of evil characters (as they would perhaps not normally do). ... And later, in Book X, Plato claims that most poetry of necessity contains evil men (in order to produce interest and pleasure), and this too forms a basis for a wide-ranging condemnation of poetry. ...

• Word Count: 5585
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In first two verses of both the Innocence and the experience Chimney Sweeper poems, Blake employs basic colour imagery to contrast the 'little black thing' with the white of the snow, which represents the purity of the childhood that the sweep has had taken away from him. ... But it does not provide a completely adequate doctrine, because it fails to account for the presence of suffering and evil in the world. ... I believe that Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience do need to be read together in order to fully appreciate the contrast between the dually opposed ideas of goo...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the play unfolds, a Good Angle and an Evil Angel come to Faustus after his thoughts about necromancy. The two angels represent his choice between Christian good conscience and the path to eternal damnation (Marlowe 8). ... He is the main villain of the great heroic poem presented as the epitome of evil incarnate. ... In the poem, Milton did not depict Satan as undisguised evil, since he did not want to risk losing the sympathy and interest of his readers. ... His rebellion against God is a result of his pride and his aspiration to continue the war of revenge, envy, and love of Evil. ...

• Word Count: 4910
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One of the first impressions we are given from the speaker is the feeling of unity and happiness between the two lovers, represented by "two swift-winged pigeons". ... Rosetti's use of this comparison is very effective- the overshadowing evil which the speaker senses is simply much higher up, therefore powerful, than the two birds. ... This image which appeals to the sense of sound and also to basic human compassion is very striking as it is clear that there continue to be more victims of the "broadening darkness", which represents in this poem something which has destroyed a genuine and ...

• Word Count: 2526
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate