... me as I think of you?'- as a refrain in "L.E.L.'s Last Question- to explore the acute emotional isolation forced upon female writers for their desire to be acknowledged as professionals. Browning chooses the line to examine how only death seems sufficient to escape the wrongs perpetrated by Victorian culture's oppression ... Sappho, struggling not only to achieve literary success, but to find social recognition while alive. Gone is the Corinne-Sappho heroine that must die to find peace; replacing her is Aurora, an empowered Corinne figure that successfully balances love and literary achi...

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... to get across in this poem. The poem is broken down into three different stanzas. The first stanza is centered on the fact that men will die in many ways and places and their bodies will return to the elements and be scattered. Thomas says in the poem, "Though they sink through ... the sea they shall rise again; / Though lovers be lost love shall not" (7-8). This passage means that although every man is going to die, love will never die. Love will continue its purpose of regeneration, and death will not rule life (Magill 68). Thomas tries to convey a feeling of hope in this stanza. ... a...

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... to get across in this poem. The poem is broken down into three different stanzas. The first stanza is centered on the fact that men will die in many ways and places and their bodies will return to the elements and be scattered. Thomas says in the poem, "Though they sink through ... the sea they shall rise again; / Though lovers be lost love shall not" (7-8). This passage means that although every man is going to die, love will never die. Love will continue its purpose of regeneration, and death will not rule life (Magill 68). Thomas tries to convey a feeling of hope in this stanza. ... a...

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... opinion, is telling his readers to prepare their outward appearances so that when they die, they will look grand and wonderful. By this I mean that I think he says that individuals live life knowing that they will die, and when they die, they want to be well remembered, liked, and want people to think greatly ... of them. I think that he uses the word "provide" to imply that when you are preparing for your death by making "friends," you are only providing yourself with the status that you desire and ... With boughten friendship at your side / Than none at all. Provide, provide! (19-21)....

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... and so to the death, I think because these animals live underground, and as human being they born and die; moreover he envies "the sullen tree" and "for thy stubborn hardihood" because the tree does not die and in my opinion he imagines to free himself from hishuman nature, represented by the blood, and therefore ... friend can speak to him from the other world even now, and that he can even commune with the spirit in his serene moments. But the poet's desire to believe in the immortality of the soul and in a God or a Universal spirit, which guides the destiny of human beings, is challe...

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... impulses of man. Donne is a philosopher, not merely a commentator, that is Donne not only acknowledges difficult thought, he articulates it, in his own fierce desire to understand. His tone is personal and he speaks earnestly and directly, exploring a full range of emotions. This colloquial tone gives a sense of immediacy to ... hammer blows, and the purgation of the poet. The harsh rhythm of this line is in deep contrast, with harsh sounds and horrific images, stressing s desire for punishment. s view is also briefly supported in the second quatrain. Here the speaker admits that he wi...

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... Yeats's anger intensifies and reaches a climax in stanza 3. Yeats sadly concludes that the sacrifices of those heroes were in vain since they certainly did not die for the type of selfish cylical society of which he is so critical. While the heroes had a vision of a free Ireland, the merchants' vision ... some stirring political speech or by the patriotic passion of 'cheering crowds.' He was driven to volunteer by his passion for adventure, and by a desire to confront his faith: 'A lonely impulse of delight/Drove to this tumult in the clouds' Having taken account of every aspect...

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... Poe's work is often overlooked as a useful tool in understanding the more general American experience as many of his poems are explicitly about his grave desire for the return of his dead beloved wife. It is in reading his sad yet hopeful poems that "speak to an unappeasable yearning for tangible ... of women in a society governed by men. Dickinson associates herself as a loaded gun with "but the power to kill, / without - the power to die." (Axelrod 575). In understanding the "injuries" men bring to women argued at the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, one can get a deeper understanding of h...

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... the transitory nature of human life; and by the end of stanza six recognises that the Nightingale would not cease to sing if he were to die "Still wouldst thou sing, an I have ears in vain- To thy high requiem become a sod." By this time, Keats is immortalising the ... with vivid sensuous delights and concurrently presenting a harrowing image of the transience of human nature, Keats reconciles his "painful love of life with his sensuous desire for death" (Holderness 1988:96). The Ode to a Nightingale along with an Ode on Melancholy presents to the reader a central experience of a ... ; b...

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... is burning in the hot sun and producing a foul odor. It is then stated that the sun gives back to nature her own gift, a hundredfold of her desire. This gives the sense that everyone is part of nature and Mother Nature has given us the gift of life. When our lives are over, our bodies are rightfully ... purpose in describing the dead corpse when he says "And even you will come to this foul shame". This brings about the realization that we are all to die, and nothing can be done to prevent it. Death is a sad thing and the reader is reminded that one day they will be just like the dead ......

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... feels that humanity's cowardice towards death deserves no respect. "It would be easy to be clever/ and tell the stones: Men hate to die," (line 14) reveals the main theme of the poem. Man's lust for life overpowers any desire he/ she faces. Mankind possesses a love- hate relationship with death. Death always comes after suffering to numb the pain, yet after death ... theme of unavoidable death subconsciously with subtle literary elements such as humor, connotations, and shifts. "It would be easy to be clever/ and to tell the stones: Men hate to die/ and have stopped dying forever/ I thi...

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John Keats's English sonnet "Bright Star" and Robert Frost's "Choose Something like a Star" underlines their desire of becoming as steadfast as a star. Although their approaches in expressing their desires are similar, they each have different reasoning for their yearning for the star's steadfastness quality. Both poets ... the theme of both pieces. Keats" star watches the earth change constantly being reborn and cleansed, which only amplifies his desire to be steadfast as the star is to the world to his lover. This contrast in the Keats's sonnet emphasizes his desire to be constantly foreve...

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... thy death my life had ended, too."" (Kalidasa 163). There, it is the wife of Love telling her husband that if he were to die, she would want to die as well. Another thing that is common in both Indian and Greek religion is that they both have several different names for their gods. These ... all, it was written for the most part by women. The women writers would pay homage to their gods by writing of their love for them, their desire for them and sometimes even of sexual dreams about them. Mahadeviyakka writes in her 283rd Poem of the Virasaiva Saints: "I love the Beautiful One:/with no...

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... supposed to be consumed in an inferno when the prophecy of the second coming of Christ is fulfilled. Frost would later relate fire with the human emotion; desire. This comparison hints that Frost views desire as a fire that consumes and destroys. "I think I know enough of hate/to say that for destruction ice is also great,""(Line 6-7) When Frost says the world will ... ingrained part of human life, and that people should just accept the fact that they are going to die and should not fear death. Another interpretation one might make is that the world will destroy itself through individua...

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... her husband, who represents evil. Plath writes, "Bit my pretty red heart in two/ I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die-(lines 56-58). Plath's husband broke her heart and her spirit. She was ten when she first repressed her feelings about her father, and started the idea ... had to kill. But the woman has not found release in her oppressor's death; inextricable bound to her captor, she has been forced to "try to die- to "get back- to him- (Hall 128). This is the point in the poem when she replaces her father. In the lines, "Every woman ... liked you- (lines 76-77). Thi...

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... ). This is a burial shroud and it symbolizes that we, the people, will triumph over the government. Despite all of the despair, man's soul and his hopes and dreams will not die. The second poet I chose is Ghalib. He was an important Indian poet in the early 19th century. His life was full of tragic events and it is clear that his ... empty. Ghalib calls out hopelessly to God with his lines "Where's the foothold, Lord," and "For desires second step?" (1-2) He sees nothing to give him the desire to go on. He explains how empty the world is with his last four lines. I found this barren worl...

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... toward each other become more apparent. "On the second day I brought her a flower/She was more beautiful than any woman I"d seen." The man notices Elisa's exceptional beauty and seems to desire it, but it is still unclear what his intentions are. Elisa on the other hand sees the man with adoring eyes and wants to be with him and to be ... of her pain he takes her to where the wild roses grow. There on the banks where the wild roses grow the man murders Elisa merely muttering "All beauty must die." Elisa is referred to as "the Wild Rose" throughout the poem, symbolizing that she is willf...

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... others, among them two of his most popular political poems. Many charged that Auden was censoring his early political self in a kind of purge. The poet, however, gave reasons of desire for technical correctness. In one such instance he revised and even retracted certain lines in his poem Spain (1938) after George Orwell expressed his disapproval of the language (though not ... takes on the persona of a Jewish refugee, accurately expressing their sentiments in the lines: Thought I heard the thunder rumbling in the sky; It was Hitler over Europe, saying: "They must die"; We were in his mi...

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... art, but one whose order of knowing its implicitly criticised by the speaker as a limited one which denies humanity. Although intense, the figures on the urn can never consummate their desire, for they belong to a world of coldness and fixity. Beginning in the first stanza by invoking not only the permanent quality of a great work of art, but also its stillness ... which life cannot. They are permanent while life changes and passes. Even in their incomplete moments, they are more satisfactory than life itself; this lover loves, not a 'beatuy that must die', but that which, from the natu...

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... ; Here the poem begins to adopt a melancholic tone, specifically mentioning his extended period of incarceration, isolation and loss of the ability to regret and hope. By accepting that he will die in the dungeon, the prisoner has essentially lost the will to live. To the reader, the thought of being in such a mindset is both tragic and discomforting, emphasizing the shift ... his rationality could return. This is a perfect example of the poem playing the reader's conflicting emotions off each other. The prisoner's life is a conflict that is very easily relatable: the desire to leave a p...

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... . Poetry was written in order to express a sense of honor and to celebrate the glories of war. A typical example is the first part of Rupert Brooke's The Soldier: If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. In four years from 1914 to 1918, over nine million lives were lost ... face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless 409 power, of craven terror – of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He ...

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... pipe beneath trees must always remain an etched figure on the urn. He is fixed in time like the leaves on the tree. They will remain ever green and never die. Keats also says the bold young lover (who may be the piper or another person) can never embrace the maiden next to him even though he is so close to ... enjoy'd For ever panting, and for ever young..." In contrast, Keats says, the love between a man and a woman in the real world is imperfect, bringing pain and sorrow and desire that cannot be fully quenched. The lover comes away with a "burning forehead, and a parching tongue." In...

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... , Some say in ice." This poem is different from most of his works because he decides to favor one quality over the other. "From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire." Frost favors fire because he values passion over hatred and isolationism. Even though he picks fire, he then says; "But if it ... miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Frost's use of reputation adds much emphases on that fact that there will be a long time before we rest (die). This poem brings up a large issue in Frost's poetry. Frost is always battling with the question, is lif...

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... reader to cherish each moment. So how do these two words apply to life today? By nature, we want our lives to be full. Advertisers know about this basic human desire and build it into their slogans: Who Says You Can't Have It All, Just Do It, Satisfy Your Thirst, Life Is A Journey - Enjoy The Ride, and so on. Many people ... , today is a gift. Appreciate it the best way you know how. Gandhi once said, "Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow." Seize the day!...

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... shepherd. There are many similarities of the two poems. Each poem has six stanzas that have four lines each. The use of the four-line stanza directly illustrates the deep desire of the shepherd to his love by repetitiously calling to the one he loves. As in the Nymph's reply her continual denial to the shepherd is continually and strongly stressed ... cost to his love. As we see in the Nymph's reply, she obviously has a grip on reality and knows that the shepherd's promises can not possibly come true. Flowers will die. Rivers will rage. Winter dose come. She also says, "But could youth ...

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