... violence where two people travelling through "a pitch-dark limitless grove" (4) are suddenly approached by an unknown man who "came out of the trees took our horse by the head [and] deliberately stabbed him dead." (5-8) The abnormality and eerily calm ambience about this poem is almost deliberate; so when you take a first look it over its' form, structure and language it ... a "lantern that wouldn't burn" (1), which Frost could have used to foreshadow that the poem, or 'night' is not off to a good start – and that things will get infinitely worse from here. The narrative flow of ...

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... 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 is the simultaneous presence of the "tragic and comic aspects of the human conditions." Thus, the blues in the poem is not the conventional "either/or ... " condition configured within the Cartesian construct. Rather ... ...

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... a feeling of chill because of the alliteration sound of "T" that creates a harsh tone. "Was a cold" in the first stanza also described the coldness. And the diction "frozen grass" and "frosted breath," explains further the pain of her state. And in the second stanza, the imagery of coldness is related to "The sculptured dead, on each side, seem to freeze" as the whole setting of the coldness symbolizes paleness and death. This ... is a contrast to the state of experience that Phorphyro will ... ...

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... a war, no matter for what cause, can be both painful and full of suffering, while Rupert Brooke on the other hand, uses language in The Soldier, to give the reader the impression that dying in war for one's country, is very honourable, and glorious. As both poets have different opinions ... dreams happy as her day", "laughter, learnt of friends", "gentleness", "hearts in peace" and "English heaven", in doing so, he gives the reader the image of England, being peaceful and happy, with joy and laughter everywhere, and everyone is at peace, almost as if they were in heaven. ... the third and...

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... to "quarry" in the title and implicitly in the first line "broken bone of the hill". The landscape is "broken", "stripped", "left for dead,/like a wrecked skull". By personifying the landscape Wright is accentuating the tragedy of the loss of nature. The visual tragedy is further emphasized through the aural effect of the alliteration of the "bush of blood", creating ... a violent pounding sound but also, like the burning bush in the Bible, a sign of regeneration. This time the singer is not a bush storyteller as in ... ...

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... world and is captured within the mystical fairy world landscape. Yeats' description of landscape seems to show that there is no distinction between the real and the mythical as he seems intent on hanging onto the "Romantic Ireland" by exploring a sinister world of superstition and old mythology, but Yeats later admits in his poem "September 1913" that Ireland is "dead and gone" along with its ... brave heroes of the past. Therefore, I believe that "The Stolen Child" is similar to "September 1913 ... ," as the child has certainly lost more than he has gained and has indeed been "stolen,"...

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... 's song is so beautiful because it resides in the throat of the woman- attributing the source of nature's beauty to the woman. Where stanza two talked about the light of day, stanza four talks about the lights of the night- the lights being the stars. Carew writes: Ask me no more where those stars light That downwards fall in dead of night; For in your eyes they sit, and there ... , Fixed become as in their sphere. (lines 13-16) Similar to how the golden atoms were infused with the woman's hair when the light of day faded, Carew ... portrays the woman's eyes as being the spheres that con...

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... metaphors achieve a watery imagery, which is responsible for a vivid description that makes the reader sense the physical and psychological suffering the soldiers were going through. In the last two stanzas, figurative language is used to create a strong imagery that makes the reader emotionally responsive and even disgusted to the description of the soldier's dead body. The personification of the eyes, described as "writhing in his face" evokes a strong image, while ... the description of the blood "com[ing] gargling from the froth corrupted lungs" creates disturbing sound and visual e...

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... stanza. "Bringing", "picking", "zipping", "tagging", and "giving" once again provide a horrible contrast between the living and the dead, as the verbs indicate the vibrance and life of those bringing home the dead lifeless bodies. Furthering this methodical sense is the repetition of "they"re", which detaches the living from the dead and shows the lack of compassion which is afforded to those who have died for our country, building ... the image of the mass quantity of the dead. Dawe constantly reminds his audience of how ones ... individuality is stripped from them when they die in war...

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... also could mean that no one was listening and understanding him, he was isolated by having no one to turn to. There is a confusion of tenses, "the dead man lay moaning", however, the poet is using the dead man as a symbol for her own feelings of isolation; by just existing he embodies all she is trying to say and so is in effect "moaning" to ... last line "They said" shows a contrast as the poet disagrees with the people's opinion of the man this makes the rest of the verse seem patronising, as the people so obviously do not understand. The last verse is purely the emotional isolation o...

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... is constantly in occurrence as soldiers are incessantly perishing - "all day, day after day." Additionally the word 'them', integrated so casually, supports the dehumanizing tone intended to display detachment of the living from the dead. Poetic devices are used to highlight the negativity and underlying themes of anti-war and the way by which society regards those brave enough to face battle after they have done their ... of bodies is created with the use of the suffix 'ing' throughout the first lines. 'Bringing', 'picking', 'zipping', 'tagging', and 'giving' once again provide a horri...

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... he proceeds to explain his symbolism of the grass that utilizes themes of nature (nature's cycles of rebirth and regeneration), a theme of unity and the democracy that runs the country (grass grows everywhere and links everyone's yards together as a whole), and a symbol of death or mortality (grass grows from the ground fertilized by the dead soldiers of the Civil War). Another section involved a ... shy woman, the 29th bather, who desires to bathe in the ocean with 28 other men, but is too shy to do so, instead, she observes them. This section incorporates popular ... "Drum Taps", anoth...

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... by revealing a serious situation of a dead infant being found in the waters. In line six, the "But" indicates a shift in focus from the setting to the mother and sets up a contrast in the remainder of the second stanza. "But I'm sure/As she stood in the shallows/ Ducking him tenderly/Till the frozen knobs of her wrists/Were dead as the gravel,/He was a minnow with hooks ... two sentences. This third sentence is a long sentence that released many of the mother's emotions and pain through its contrast of the mother's delicate treatment of the baby despite the need to kill him, and through...

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... "ghost" All denote a feeling of coldness, thrill and eeriness; it also signifies the coldness, harshness and sadistic workings of the individual. Carol uses her monologues to express moral and social issues; she conveys the isolation and deprivation of individuals such as the one portrayed in stealing. "Better off dead" this identifies with the person's own moral structure, taking what you want to take is acceptable outside ... the mores of society. The character steals to feel a thrill and feels alone. "Gloved hand" this shows a separation others, there ... slightly more sinister "she...

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... -line quatrain with a mournful, prayer-like statement: "So farewell life and love and pleasures new." The blunt absoluteness of this line is a powerful tool used by Rosetti to convey the irrevocable consequences of the death of the two pigeons. The description of the actual bodies of the dead birds is extremely poignant as the "snow-white plumage flecked with crimson drops" is noted. This tainted image of perfection is ... distort and distressing to the reader as the purity of the wing plumage being contaminated with evidence of killing and bloodshed ... ...

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... , 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. The leaves, in their dry and brittle state, 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 aspects ... of society. If separated from men, women were thought to be helpless, perhaps even "dead." Dickinson challenges these traditi...

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... , but in remorse. Yes, she has to kill him -- but only because her situation has forced this option upon her. The emotions conveyed still resound with a sense of what her father must have meant to her, as when she refers to his dead body being carried away in a body-bag as a "bag full of God" (line 8) and when she laments, "I used to ... marriage to Ted Hughes was built upon, and of course the marriage's subsequent downfall. And yet, she got away with using such imagery as vampires and Holocaust Jews and Nazis, even though their meaning was anything but literal. "Daddy" tells Plath's own...

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... an insensitive person. Furthermore, the poet uses a simile in order to emphasise the deep meaning of how the persona feels socially awkward and prohibits the detection of any change. This further signifies to how the persona has no sense which links to how there is no blood in the anonymous, it is to be dead. Therefore, implying to how the persona is internally dead and has no emotions of ... any kind. 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 pleasu...

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... their country, aren't getting proper burials, just horrendous mass burials. This type of event shows how the irony in Owen's title and the subject of the poem is giving the dead soldiers their only real burial. This highlights the huge, senseless sacrifice that the soldiers gave. The religious influence is carried on throughout the poem, albeit it is changed to a darker, more funereal one. This was particularly shown in ... the artwork at the time with many artists illustrating the tragedies of the First World War. In particular the art of Eric Kennington ... ...

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... ] openness regarding sex, his self-presentation as a rough working man, and his stylistic innovations" (Poetry Foundation 1). The voice of his works is "said to breathe the new American spirit of broad open lands and enterprising, hard-working people" (Author Profile 1). Upon publishing Leaves of Grass ... Green Grass and publishing it, this had been an obstacle for Whitman. It had caused a social uproar and rage, because of the references of his bisexuality in the poem. Despite these critics and uproars, he still continued to write his poems for many years on. For many of his poems, ......

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... the cold and darkness by stripping their clothes, flesh and sanity away. And again and again, the young men are left beat and exhausted, alone in their empty rooms, trapped in time, (they are not accepted anywhere and never moving on). "Howl" constantly pushes towards exhaustion and, a dead end, only to have the ... ends twisted into moments of shuddering ecstasy. The second part is part Old Testament hellfire ranting and Ginsberg begins by asking "What sphinx of cement and aluminum ... bashed open their skulls and ate up their and imagination?" His answer - Moloch! It becomes the repea...

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... you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then" is a short line because the message of love for the flower is portrayed to the listener so quickly that no other words are necessary and the reader can breathe. "Poor dead flower? When did you forget you were a flower? When did you look at your skin and ... decide you were an impotent dirty old locomotive? the ghost of a locomotive? The specter and shade of a once powerful mad American locomotive?", a series ... he went to school he was taught to model his poetry after that of traditional English poets such as Sir Thomas Wyatt or Andr...

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... valued those fleeting pleasures within a greater whole - we are all nostalgic for something, someone or somewhere. "Fern Hill" has occasionally been criticised for portraying an idealised, sanitised vision of the poet's highly-individual perfect holiday environment - but so what? - his locations and happenings will be different to mine (and yours and yours and yours) but our wistfulness and nostalgic regrets ... who loved us as children, their closeness and kindness; their voices, smells and faces. We remember as yesterday Sunday lunch times, beaches and long-dead dogs; we cannot with eas...

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... other forms of American suffering at the time, particularly to women. Poe's work is often overlooked as a useful tool in understanding the more general American experience as many of his poems are explicitly about his grave desire for the return of his dead beloved wife. It is in ... reading his sad yet hopeful poems that "speak to an unappeasable yearning for tangible security, acceptance, and happiness" (Axelrod 298) that one can see a reflection of women's experiences of the time that shared ... similar yearnings but for different desires. Dickinson, complex and starkly conscious of ...

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... through in a painful epiphany later in the story, after his dreams have been shattered by the harsh reality of Gallaher's character, just as the dreams of the Irish have been shattered and cloaked under a reputation of the past and a pride on 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 ...

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