... earth............ The poet uses personification when describing the fingers of philophers, thumb of science and knees of religions. This technique despicts the human race slowly destoying the earth with their body. Cumming 's critisizes humans and the fact that th and nature is superior because although the earth has been tortured by >religions science and philosophers, It answers only with spring, a sign ... this poem. > > > >Characteristic of Cummings, literary themes, personal references, figurative >language, and concrete shapes blend to express the multidimensional >perspectives th...

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... others and it has a different tone. On the first line, there are many alliterations of F'. The next line is that they are recoiling from danger, then it starts to get poetic and it is a change in the poem. In the Third line he imagines that he is at home, this stanza is a total contrast from ... in reality, but stanzas five, six and seven are about fantasy and there is a contrast in change from the beginning. However, in the seventh stanza it starts getting religious and the last stanza gets back to reality. The poem ends by the words death and ironically; in life death is the ending. T...

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... sends a messenger to  Morpheus, the god of sleep. Morpheus is to go to the Great Sea (the Mediterranean) and enliven the king's drowned body with his own spirit. This reanimated corpse he should send to Alcyone to speak to her and show her he has drowned. Juno's messenger goes to ... Chaucer's day) commentary on  Cicero's  Dream of Scipio, would have the skill to read the fantastic dream the narrator had that night. Analysis Burying the body of a relative with proper rites was a recurring theme in classical literature (such as in Sophocles' play  Antigone), so it was not surprising ...

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... . Of course, England can't really bear children so this is an example of personification, the attribution of human qualities to non-human things. Line 7: The speaker refers to himself as a "body of England's, breathing English air." He's as English as the Queen! Line 11: The speaker will re-experience in heaven "thoughts by England given." England can't really give anything, so ... resolved in the sestet. What's more, the ninth line of a sonnet (i.e., the first line of the sestet) is called the "turn" or "volta" because this is where the poem usually starts to shift gears. In the case o...

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• Grade Level: High School