... strength and vitality. This is a very strong criticism towards humans and their interest towards observing the wild, their need to watch these animals while they are imprisoned and vulnerable, for we can only fully see them while they feel trapped and we feel safe. But even though the jaguar is in "prison darkness" it does not let humans treat it as ... a circus act. In the last two stanzas we can see the conflict between the jaguar and the bars that keep it from its real home ... that it is physically in a cage; it is not in one mentally. The "bang of blood in the brain deaf the ear" ...

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... 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 bring as he has a heart on fire for Madeline "Had come young Phorphyro, with heart on fire for Madeline" (stanza 9) which means that his ... warmth will later on melt Madeline's chastity-freezing soul. And in stanza 11 Phorphyro "stood, hid from the torch's flame ... " which symbolizes his flaming heart that is also eager to tr...

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... "A Song" from other poems of the time, but the way Carew approaches the act of describing the subject's beauty also stands out. By portraying the relationship between nature and the subject to and stating that the source of nature's beauty lies within the subject, Carew completely trumps the simile's power of describing comparable beauty by eliminating any need for comparison at all. In doing so, Carew opens ... this beautiful woman's sparkling eyes. The last stanza describes that of a "phoenix [building] her spicy nest" (line 18) and eventually finding a home in the woman's "fragrant bo...

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... However, in the second sentence of the stanza – the interpretation of 'the night [drawing] through the trees" (11) could have been read as its' literal meaning: where the end of day is the night, or on the other hand, for its' metaphorical meaning – where the end of the event is compared to the end of day. This stanza is the turning point of the poem, where ... Frost uses an extended metaphor combined with the narrative structure from the poem to explicate a different interpretation of the horse. The lantern could be a representation of a body that has ultimately lost its radia...

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... is evidently present in each stanza. It is removed from the excesses and corruptions of daily life, and chooses natural over artificial pleasures. In the poem, "The Mower to the Glow-worms," the Mower compares the natural light of the glow-worms to, "living lamps," emitting an artificial aspect. By comparing the two it allows for the natural light to have a higher more dominating status over artificial ... light because the human devices would be unable to reproduce such perfection as in ... nature. Nonetheless, in this poem, the Mower looks back to his career and remembers and compare...

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... satire, showing us a society obsessed with superficial splendour, class and social status. The inclusion of the sylphs allows Pope to critique the situation whilst the supernatural quality still keeps the story in the realms of fantasy. When Pope speaks in Canto II of the roles of the sylphs, the juxtaposition of guardians of the "British Throne" with the idea that certain sylphs exist "To change a flounce, or add a furbelow" ... when we are surrounded by such heavenly creatures? We cannot help but read the poem lightly, influenced as it were by the mood of the magical, tiny sylphs, but ...

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... completely different tone to the rest of the poem. Medusa is bitter and angry throughout most of the poem, shown through Duffy's use of metaphors and alliteration, however at the end Medusa seems to show weakness and almost loses her impression as a maniacal, menacing woman overreacting to suspicions. Medusa says that her partner comes to her with a "shield for a heart" and a "sword for a tongue", which implies ... that he uses sharp words, is cold towards her, perhaps even detached from her. This metaphor is very powerful, for Duffy uses two ... heroic and noble objects to descr...

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... Wordsworth presents first humankind's existing botched relationship to nature and quickly follows with his nostalgic idealization of our past rapport with it, the latter section being more immediate and personal. Wordsworth desperately longs for humanity to return to its once flourishing relationship with nature, ultimately becoming more true to our own quintessence. Wordsworth's diction enhances a ... feeling of melancholy. For example, the author recognizes the vast potential for humankind, but the all too common mentality of "getting and spending" clouds the once perceptive outlook o...

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... , Rupert Brooke uses both fluid and long, yet well-linked sentences for his poem, thus giving the reader a soothing effect, for example, he only has three sentences over fourteen lines, and he uses a sentence such as, "And think, this heart, all evil shed away, a pulse in the eternal mind, no less gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; her sights and sounds; dreams happy as ... light" and "under a green sea, I saw him drowning." Which is actually, him seeing someone suffering from the gas, with the green glass of the gas mask, causing him to see everything as green, includin...

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... intellect, emotion and extremity though out all his poetry, whether it is a romantic love poem, such as "The Sunne Rising", presenting an idealised view of his love for the women he shares a bed with, or a religious sonnet, "batter my heart", a time where Donne was in conflict between sin and redemption, a very dramatic and powerful poem, forcefully demanding god to ravish him in order to ... make him pure. Donne constantly uses the same techniques of addressing the subjects with dramatic opening lines , conversational voice and ... ...

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... stating that his lover has "a thousand- faults. The word used is "errors,"" and when read one is likely to make a mistake in the line, due to the complicated word order and diphthong in "thousand,"" as well as the alliteration. In the next line of the quatrain, the persona declares his love for his lady, but in a heartless fashion-- "But t is my heart that loves what they [his eyes] despise ... ."" The final line-- "Who, in despite of view, is pleased to ... dote- has a pun on the word "view,"" which sounds similar to "you."" The persona is saying that despite what his ... ...

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... suffered through European colonization. He writes about the loss of a way of life in "The Old Place" and about the loss of spirituality in "The Kumara god Smiles Fatly" and are both examples of poetry about the destruction caused by Urban Drift. The urban drift has delivered a cruel blow for traditional Maori culture. The financial opportunities offered by "the golden city" leads people away from tradition ... and culture which is the poetic source for Tuwhare's anguish, his deep ... on his thoughts and also an influence on the feeling and emotions that come from his heart. The influen...

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... , artwork and literature. The Romantics turned to the poet before the scientist to harbor their convictions. They symbolize what Romanticism stood for. His character expressed feelings from the heart and gave way to a new trend of expressing emotions through individuality as opposed to collectivism. The perception that the Enlightenment was destroying the natural human soul and substituting it with the mechanical, artificial heart was becoming prevalent across Europe. The Lyrical Ballads, published ... in 1798, was a series of poems that examined the beauty of nature and explored ... ...

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... impulse and blindly gives in for control of a strange woman; however, such desire and unaccountability leaves this knight with a broken heart. Through such encounter between the knight and the woman, Keats explores how can enjoy the physical attractions and pleasures for a very short time and end up unsatisfied.  In the beginning of knight's explanation of his deep sorrow to the speaker, the knight believes he is ... in control of his acquaintance with the beautiful lady; however, it turns out that the woman is the one who tricks the knight. As the speaker finds the ... is unable to re...

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... stanza,rhymed abab, the poet criticises Science for being a "true daughter of Old Time" and for changing everything with its "peering eyes". He says daughter probably because Science is feminine in Latin (Scientia) and it has peering eyes because searchs a logical explanation to everything.Also he asks why him,why his heart is Science's prey and compares Science to a vulture,a strong metaphor if we ... remember that vultures feed on the rests of other animals ... dream and fantasize.Then in verse 7,there is another image about flight, "To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies",which ...

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... of death' not just because the soot has turned them black, the colour of mourning, but also because the soot will soon kill the child. The rhythm of the last verse becomes quicker and lighter as the sweep describes how his parents 'praise God' that everything is fine, but slows right down as the last line exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of state religion. (The law passed by Parliament in 1788 ... their desires, and yet taking care of their physical well being. Her heart is at rest within her breast', and she is glad to hear the hills echoing with the children's laughter. In the world...

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... of this power is what ultimately limits him. If eyes are the windows to the soul, then the subject's eyes reflect a woman's heart, though brimming with aberrant power. Although a man, the poem's subject possesses feminine charms superior to a woman, with "An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling" (5). For one's eyes to be "bright" suggests one is free-spirited, lively ... for professing love to female lovers and paramours, yet this poem professes adoration of a man. These seeming contradictions raise questions as to what constitutes femininity and masculinity, and how we ou...

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... '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 line "They said" shows a contrast as the poet d...

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... ; to be "thirsty" since it's supposed to quench a human being and it'd be weird for "bread loaf" to be "stone." However, upon further research, one can see that Angelou's uses of references are actually very strong and hits the heart. These two lines are an irregular use of diction, suggesting that this person's soul is lost ... heart" being of "stone". In the bigger picture when an individual really tries to visualize, this is just an enchanting use of diction. The "money the millionaires can't use" represents the happiness they can't buy, the "wives" running around like "banshees" symbo...

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... is visible and more open on the hill, the children in Songs of Experience were hidden and dark in the dale. The nurse in Songs of Experience recalls the days of her youth and, instead of feeling peace at her heart, she reveals her "green and pale" face, showing jealousy and resentment due to her twinge of envy for the children's freedom and happiness, or an ... apprehension over what the children are about to experience. When " ... ;the sun is gone down, and the dews of night arise" (Lines 5-6), both nurses addressed the children to come home. In ... ...

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... is clear that she gains inspiration from them. Plath's "Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies " is an incredibly vivid poem that uses visual imagery to describe the scene of Henri Rousseau's "The Dream. " The painting itself is bizarre, with the main focus being a nude woman, dubbed Yadwigha by Plath, lying on a red couch in a jungle, and Plath seems to recognize and appreciate this oddity ... paintings are also very similar: both take place in a jungle setting under the same full moon, though "The Dream " is certainly far more diverse in both plant and animal matter. The snake charmer ...

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... Yeats" works can be closely aligned with Yeats himself. The image of a withered old man is described as "a tattered coat upon a stick" and is a clear negatively portrayed image of an elderly man, which implies the desire for youth. The poem is concerned with this repeated idea and this is illustrated further with the image of Yeats" heart yearning for his youth, but sadly trapped inside a "dying animal ... ." The image is ghastly and reinforces the negative image Yeats" beholds of growing old. " sick with desire/And fastened to a dying ... ...

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... 's childish nature was brought up by Alvarez, who pointed out the repetitive "oo" sound echoing throughout the poem, especially in lines like, "Brute heart of a brute like you" (line 50), in which the immediately harsh message is softened by the "oo" sounds. The epitome of this tenderness which is woven into the poem's word structure comes when the speaker lovingly says, "Daddy, you can lie back now" (line ... not entirely true, as he based that statement on the contention that the pity in the poem was "for the person who made her suffer" (471), which would be the husband. However, he is...

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... 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. The image of the "ravenous hawk" is a very striking one, as the adjective "ravenous" has connotations of greed and in this case, an insatiable hunger for death. After the death of the two pigeons, Rosetti ends the second four-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 consequenc...

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... and language devices. Sometimes throughout our lives the need for change is necessary and the text, which shows that change is needed, is Miroslav Holub's "The Door". The poem uses a metaphorical idea of a person inside a room with a closed door, with the speaker trying to convince them to open the door, to make a change. The tone used in the first phrase of the first four stanzas is commanding telling who ... they are exposed to change, because what lies beyond that door is different for everybody. The phrase that emphasizes the need for change is in the last stanza when a final despera...

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