... 271) she believes created and sustained the dogma that led to the violence in her household. In her poems, A Castle In Lynn and To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons the reader becomes acquainted with this poet's experiences of her father as he dominates much of her writings. Ms. McCarriston's poems are a ... alcoholic's family and the refusal of those in power to halt the molestation and beatings. Reading her poems A Castle In Lynn and To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons, whether or not you have personally experience such horror, the very core of your being is moved. A...

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... 271) she believes created and sustained the dogma that led to the violence in her household. In her poems, A Castle In Lynn and To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons the reader becomes acquainted with this poet's experiences of her father as he dominates much of her writings. Ms. McCarriston's poems are a ... alcoholic's family and the refusal of those in power to halt the molestation and beatings. Reading her poems A Castle In Lynn and To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons, whether or not you have personally experience such horror, the very core of your being is moved. A...

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... the educated classes) that if a body wasn't buried properly, the departed's soul would not rest. Therefore, the living were required to treat the dead properly, and the prevention of survivors from doing so was the instigation of dramatic crisis in many works of classical literature. The narrator's slightly humorous ... called, is later mocked by Shakespeare in Sonnet 106, when he puts the parts out of order ("Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow"). But in Chaucer's time, some 250 years before Shakespeare, this method of description was standard and considered poetic. Describing a n...

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... With your nut-coloured hair, And gray eyes, and rose-flush coming and going. Yes: I have re-entered your olden haunts at last; Through the years, through the dead scenes I have tracked you; What have you found to say of our past " Scanned across the dark space wherein I have lacked you? Summer gave us sweets, ... he follows his friend around to places he couldn't go before (ll. 11-12). His friend, who is still alive and searching, does not know that his dead friend is still there for him and is with him (ll. 1-3). This friend of his never really wanted the speaker to be there with him wh...

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... the tops of buildings in the river. Heaney goes onto describe how the rat looked: "back bunched" (Line 22) like a cat trying to unnerve its prey before attacking it. "Raindrop eye, old snout" (Line 26) Heaney is looking very closely at the rat. Heaney uses personification to describe how things looked: "The river nosed past, pliable, oil skinned, wearing a transfer of ... poem. The next major mood change comes with a time again "at ten o"clock the ambulance arrived". He has already been told by his mother most probably that his brother is dead at this point. But this ambulance must conf...

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... a case of personification (the attribution of human qualities to non-human things). Dust is a metaphor for the speaker's relationship to nature and for the fact that he may soon be dead. Line 6: England gave the speaker "flowers to love" and "ways to roam." England can't actually give anything, really (nice try, though), so this is an example of personification, the attribution ... this are fairly common in poetry, so just be on the lookout for any metrical oddities. Any time a pattern is established, then broken, those breaks are designed to catch a reader's eye for emphasis (or catch...

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... progress and prosperity, a sensitive soul like Arnold sang elegies. He found himself between the devil and the deep blue sea, "Wandering between the two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like those on earth I wait forlorn." Tennyson is a great patriot who, ... metaphors in To Marguerite--Continued and Dover Beach. In the beginning of Tennyson's poem, he describes an old yew tree. The tree, to him, is dead and at this early point of his grief he cannot find any life in the nature surrounding him. The old yew "which grapsest at the stones...

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... , but some other essence that was longing now for peace on a quiet, shadowed road where no guns sounded." This supports Sassoon's theory that being dead is better than being at war since what Stephen describes is obviously better than the situation he is currently in. This passage shows Stephen momentarily slipping into ... could also be perceived as the feeling when you are dying, this could represent the fact that the soldiers thought it would be better to be dead than in the war which of course directly relates to Sassoon's "The Death-Bed" because he also describes a dying soldier goi...

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... conjuring and have a lasting impact on you. The reader is instantly thrown into thoughts and images of a new beginning in what seems to be an already dead entity. The exuberant overtones in this statement offer and outlook of the word in a different sense. Exuberance in this statement and indeed the rest of the poem ... as if they are the bearer and bringer of light. The exuberance in this poem is seen to be this omnipotent light, which awakens even the dead skeletons in their graves and empowers glow-worms to bring the skeleton to life. In this respect the statement can be argued that e...

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... conjuring and have a lasting impact on you. The reader is instantly thrown into thoughts and images of a new beginning in what seems to be an already dead entity. The exuberant overtones in this statement offer and outlook of the word in a different sense. Exuberance in this statement and indeed the rest of the poem ... as if they are the bearer and bringer of light. The exuberance in this poem is seen to be this omnipotent light, which awakens even the dead skeletons in their graves and empowers glow-worms to bring the skeleton to life. In this respect the statement can be argued that e...

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... Illustrates, in no uncertain terms, the evolution of Love-associated Madness through poetry, and the Pain of Unrequited Love: "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And ... think I made you up inside my head.) God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade: Exit seraphim and Satan's men: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have l...

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... in life. Then Plath goes on to describe her father as a Nazi, and places herself in the role of the Jew. She gets frustrated when attempted to connect with her dead father through his native language German. The metaphor of Nazism is compared to her father because she relates them as being a form of authoritarian figures, "freedom for the archetypal feminine ... the world is gone now. Based on Bundtzen's argument "she resurrected Daddy and sustained his unnatural existence in her psyche as a vampire, sacrificing her own life's blood, her vitality, to a dead man. The worship of his fathe...

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... . Edwin Muir, while less politically committed, is a more international poet than MacDiarmid. Born in the Orkney Islands, he returnsfrequently to their wild landscapes in his poetry (Chorus of the Newly Dead, 1926, and several other volumes, until Collected Poems 1921–1951). He is also remembered, with his wife Willa, as the first translator of Kafka into English, the fruit of ... a permanent nightmare in the soul. The fears Conrad expresses find an echo in T.S. Eliot's poetry, especially in his poem The Hollow Men with the epigraph 'Mistah Kurtz – he dead' – a direct quotatio...

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... highly pessimistic. However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." By looking at her use of language, imagery, themes and her addressee I shall explore to what extent I agree with the statement that the work of Rosetti leans towards ... 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 poignan...

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... outcome of the battle and that was Death'. As we go to the last stanza, the imagery has changed completely in contrast with the beginning. In the last stanza, the dead are honoured and they are shown as glorious, even though they lost. In addition, it questions the decision and it shows that it was not very organised. They were seen ... and calm. The language used is very posh a grand. Tennyson makes us think if the deaths were not that bad and the mistakes were not that stupid. He honours the dead and he uses posh language to make the audience believe that the soldiers were patriotic. ...

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... 'men were born to pray and save.' For Yeats, John O'Leary symbolises the selflessness and idealism of generation of Irish heroes – qualities which, in Yeats's opinion, are 'dead and gone.' The heroes of the past 'were of a different kind.' Their attitudes and values were fundamentally different from those of the merchants. Yeats speaks of those heroes whose ... of 1913. The merchants coldly act in their own self-interest. The poem ends on a particularly gloomy note. Yeats sadly concludes that if futile raising the memories of the heroic dead in the cynical and dispiriti...

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... as the fact that he was a rather dour German, probably not, but it still makes one think Whitman believed that the self was an amalgam of all people - alive or dead, good or bad - in the world. He believed that we all share a common bond through the "life source," a primeval force that defined the world: Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed Earth! Earth of ... womb, and after death. Since the elegies are a lamentation on humanity's permanent loss of understanding, there is no point in worrying about what comes after life, since it is already dead to us. The theme of society is closely connec...

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... weeper or prayer, Mind not the old man beseeching the young man, Let not the child's voice be heard, not the mother's entreaties, Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses, So strong you thump O terrible drums "so loud you bugles blow.{Whitman, 186} Whitman is shedding light upon an historical era of the ... the alarum, and urge relentless war, But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself, To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;){Whitman, 198} Other poems of wartime are Calvary Crossing a Ford' and An ...

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... is a sense of a loss of individuality and identity. This creates a contrast between this environment and the calm of the suburbs. The word 'dead' is chosen to suggest that while the natural world is alive, the urban landscape is 'dead' in the sense that it is simple and restrictive, reinforcing the idea of urbanisation resulting in the loss of individualism. Larkin describes the ... ...

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... in this book titled "Versification " which relates to the topic of music and poetry. Jon Stallworthy states that "A poem is a composition written for performance by the human voice. What your eye sees on the page is the composer's verbal score, waiting for your voice to bring it alive as you read it aloud or hear it in your mind's ear"(Stallworthy ... ...

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... flow in her house and their habits associated with it served as a catalyst for the speaker to begin contemplating on the idea of human habits in general. What catches one's eye, however, is the words "the way we laugh," by which the poet begins the second stanza, because it indicates that "we" are not frustrated by the ... ...

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... with houses, streets, and buildings, but rather something that should be greatly admired and respected for all it's beauty. There was a time when he saw nature with just the naked eye but now he views nature with all his senses so he can grasp it's true beauty. This place not only changed the way he lived and perceived his life, but ... ...

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... with houses, streets, and buildings, but rather something that should be greatly admired and respected for all it's beauty. There was a time when he saw nature with just the naked eye but now he views nature with all his senses so he can grasp it's true beauty. This place not only changed the way he lived and perceived his life, but ... ...

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... , Essence, Alvarez asks the question, "Had I been unconscious of racism until we came to the United States?" For her, the race issue may be a little more complicated than meets the eye. Alvarez is a light-skinned Hispanic, prompting the comment, "I didn't know if anyone had seen my picture on the back cover, or even read my book, but I was worried that I"d get ... ...

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... in, as it were. each time the baloonman whistles, the line is either broken or extended by wide spacing. This may be because it is intended to convey to the eye the impression of distance, and attentuation. The whistle...is heard by the children far off...whereupon they come running and skipping from their games. 4. The most cryptic typographical feature is ... ...

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