... 's female speaker. Feminine liberation, a concept which secedes much of Plath's poetry is explored in the final stanzas of 'Lady Lazarus'. In recognition of the injustice of circumstance, Plath places a timely warning on the men who seek to profit from her existence in 'Beware/ Beware, Herr God, Herr Lucifer.' Her use of the familiar contrast of God and Lucifer allows a more significant exploration of ... masculine archetype in Otto Plath. Hughes has used both his own familiar metaphors and images as well as the language of Plath's poetry to explore more abstract concepts of gu...

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... only cares to know that their citizens are conforming and obeying their expectations as another 'unknown citizen' in the crowd. Another form of irony often found in poetry is situational irony, occurring when the final outcome of a poem is incongruous with the reader's expectations. Adrienne Rich uses a variation of situational irony in her beautifully written poem "Aunt Jennifer's ... Tigers". Narrated in the perspective of a niece or nephew, the speaker reflects on their Aunt and her embroidered works of art. The poet skillfully structures the poem in a way where each stanza grad...

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... the reader the chance to make a personal interpretation, although by the rest of the poem, it is fairly clear that the viewpoint of the speaker is that war involves both a physical and a mental sickness. Likewise, in the narrative description "towards our distant rest", the "rest" could be interpreted either as the final destination of the army, or as death of individual soldiers. Additionally, the words used to describe the setting and the actions of the ... punctuation also has an important role in emphasizing the effects present in the imagery of the poem. Asyndetons in the first sta...

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... , which differed only slightly to the definitive 1736 edition, features elements which confirmed the status of the piece as one of the greats of the Augustan age. This final version includes a "Dedicatory Letter" to Miss Fermor, which serves the purpose of excusing the previous "imperfect" draft, with which the lady was less than pleased, as well as introducing the theme of the poem: the "little unguarded follies" of the fair sex. Pope tells ... later works and this, too, is reflected in his use of the supernatural machinery. The second, hugely important function of the sylphs in "The Ra...

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... , actual and ideal from the perspective of a narrator wishing to live immortally or die easefully. The way that music functions in the poem defines the way the narration views the answer to such questions; the authoritative force of the poem lies in the indeterminacy of the final line and the previous cycle of repression, transference, and return that the narrator's psychology delineates through music ... of several forms. The music of life, music of death, and the music of immortality are all part of the whole of the play, the ... the bird-song illicits, but is slow to remove the pain, ...

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... "devil's sick of sin" which really demonstrates the agony and excruciating pain which the soldier and the onlookers are enduring. This description alone fills the reader with distress and an overwhelming sentiment that these horrors should never be permitted by humans again. He then adds to the hellish scene of death as he vividly brings before the reader the final picture of a poor wretch choking on his froth corrupted ... lungs - a fate as "obscene as cancer" and "bitter as cud". To emphasise the respect which all human life should be given Owen confronts us throughout his poem with .....

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... the home front, insight into the ferociousness of the situation. Owen has been able to capture the enormity of the deaths. This can be seen in the anonymous deaths caused by the "monstrous anger of the guns" Here Owen asserts the wasteful nature of the war. Owen further emphasises this idea of war killing the young with his use of "boys" and "girls" in the poem's conclusion The final metaphor, which completes the ... meaningless waste and futility of lives lost in battle, which is the real focus of the poem. "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks", sets the scene of the men returning...

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... of verse rhythms and poetic diction at large really started to take off. It also marked a distinctive break with the bourgeois morality of the Victorian Age, rejecting 19th-century optimism and presenting a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. From 1911 to 1914 Eliot was back at Harvard, USA, reading Indian philosophy and studying Sanskrit, but then he returned to France. ... insensate in its essence. Therefore the end of the war brought no sense of moral relief for either side, and a great many people, like Oswald Spengler, even argued that the European culture had ...

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... 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 through the distance of a photograph, a dim analysis of a living creature and its entire existence by the pixel fabrications of a picture. This is symbolic of Chandlers detachment from an outside, inspirational world, that holds lines ... having qualities to that of a child, as having a child himself. It puts Chandler in an awkward position, considering that the one thing he has that Gallaher does not, which is a famil...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate