... imprisoned in the coldness of her frustration, grief and sorrow before Phorphyro later on brings experience and warmth into her life. In the poem "The Eve of Saint Agnes" the cold imagery plays an important role as it symbolizes the theme of innocence before experience in the poem, the state of loneliness and imprisonment before freedom as her church and religion ... filled with sorrow, frustration and the coldness of the church of her chastity. Bitter also gives a feeling of chill because of the alliteration sound of "T" that creates a harsh tone. "Was a cold" in the first stanza also ...

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... yet it is clear to the reader that the man didn'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...

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... than a human being in "He was hauled in with the fish" through association with the fish. Then, Heaney broadens the perspective by saying "Now limbo will be/A cold glitter of souls/Through some far briny zone" (16-18). As mentioned before, limbo is where those who cannot reach heaven yet do not deserve hell go, and an ... infant not yet baptized will end up there, so by saying limbo will be "A cold glitter of souls", Heaney is saying that there are many other souls that suffered similar fates to the infant, capitalizing on the amount of pain and suffering the Catholic ... ...

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... character in the poem, "Stealing", is portrays as less energetic and bored out. In the poem, the persona clearly mentions that he "want(s) a mate with a mind as cold as the slice of ice within my own brain". This presents the persona as a friendless and rather lonely being who seeks to have a 'mate' to support him. However ... , the persona also mentions that his 'mind as cold as the slice of ice within' his 'own brain' which implies to how the persona is emotionless, thus linking to how he thinks about himself, as an insensitive person ... ...

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... , with more positive religious imagery being employed ("fatuous sunbeams"). The personification ("kind, old sun"), sympathetic background ("the snow"), and repetition of light imagery that Owen utilises ("cold star old sun") all add to the cold, yet ultimately hopeful feel of the first verse. The many rhetorical questions that Owen uses in the second verse ("too hard to stir?") contradict the first verse ... ...

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... for the inescapable entrapment it is. She then speaks of her grass and how it "flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes around me this year- (4-6). The term "cold fire,"" an oxymoron, is a significant aspect of this poem in that it simply relays the widow's emotional state while providing the irony a modernist, like Williams ... ...

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... 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 wife ... form resembling the rapture of a poet's soul, is in the pathetic encounter which his own son. It is quickly ended by him trying to sooth the child, and having its cold mother burst in with a resentment and accusation, snatching the infant from...

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... who is very disturbed and confused, the mood that is conveyed is bleak and depressing. "I wanted him, a mate with a mind as cold as the slice of ice within my own brain" "Better of dead than giving in" words such as "cold" "ice" "frozen" "thrill" and "ghost" All denote a feeling of coldness, thrill and eeriness; it also signifies the coldness, harshness and sadistic ... ...

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... darling one wish" (57) to love him forever. It is the speakers' justification of murder where readers realize he is surely not a mentally stable man, but rather a delusional, insane cold-blooded killer. The dramatic irony in this story is the fact that the readers are well aware of the speakers' insanity, however the speaker is blatantly blind that anything he ... ...

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... write his poems for many years on. For many of his poems, such has, O Captain, My Captain, he writes in a dark, mourning tone in his poems, for example, "Fallen Cold and Dead" (Poetry Foundation 1). As in the poem O Captain, My Captain, he writes the poem in a very interesting manner. This is shown as in each stanza; four lines are ... ...

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... his head shaved, he told him to look on the bright side of things. Then, he further comforts Tom that his dream foretells a delightful life. The poem ends with a "cold" day, however Tom was "happy & warm" because he believes as long as he is doing what he has been told to do, he would not have to ... ...

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... where they will" connotes a fluid movement, suggesting the swans can transcend and move between elements. This is revealed through the active verbs as the swans "paddle in the cold companionable streams or climb the air". Hence, a tension is conveyed through the use of literary devices between Yeats, resistant of change, and the vibrant, immortalized swans, which are free ... ...

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... 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 describe Medusa's partner's apathy, which evokes sadness from the ... ...

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... of gathered information. Such is the case in Bishop's poem entitled "At The Fishhouses" as she describes very vividly the sensation she feels when she dips her hand into icy, cold water. She tells us that if we experience this "[our] wrist would ache immediately, [our] bones would begin to ache and [our] hand would burn as if the water were ... ...

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... of defiance, longing, terror, hysteria, anger, joy, tears and exhaustion, culminating in the absolutes of madness and suicide. These "best minds" are exposed and tormented, then cast out into 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 ... ...

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... . Poe describes the Montresor wine cellar and the wine kept in it. As the characters wander further into the catacomb he describes piles of bones against the walls and the cold damp air. It goes on describing the blocks that the wall are made of and the blocks that Montresor uncovered and later used to trap Fortunato in the cellar. These ... ...

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... between art as it is represented on the Urn and the impermanence of life. The mood of the Ode changes suddenly and shows art as static. Keats emphasises a change to a cold pastoral grief that the lovers will never kiss, and instead of looking at this as an ever attainable goal now views it as an eternal void of longing. The poets ... ...

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... immediately confronted with the informality of a conversational tone. "Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison!" The word "prison" gives a connotation of darkness and cold, communicating the persona's negative attitude towards the lime-tree bower at this point in time. Through the conversational tone, the poet seems to be addressing the reading and thereby creates ... ...

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... itself. One cannot help but detect a sense f misogyny in both Maud and In Memoriam. In Maud there is a direct approach, Maud's presentation in the poem, demoted to an icy and cold entity, her outside beauty hazarding inner danger. Faultily faultless, icily regular, The poem In Memoriam....

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... ") contains the famous eulogy on the Civil War president Abraham Lincoln; "O Captain! My Captain!". "Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead." In this collection it is apparent that Whitman's love for democracy was diminishing after seeing the destruction it could cause against fellow man, though at first it was ... ...

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During the Cold War, a period when armed conflict between the USA and Russia was being avoided, US President Dwight Eisenhower, a former soldier, said: "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, ... ...

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