The poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger," published in Songs of Innocence and of Experience, uses the symbolism of two different animals to explain how all things, good and evil, come from God. ... His poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" contrasts two animals to make the reader think, "How can God make something as good as a lamb and something as evil as a tiger?" ... Although the author is incredulous to one belief or another, Blake uses his poetry to try and get people to notice the ultimate battle of good versus evil. ... Although no one can answer the question of how God can create good and evi...

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This is the type of love that the persona of the poem believes he shares with his female partner Donne represents this love with an array of metaphors that emphasis the unearthly nature of there love. ... Donne concludes the poem with a conceit in which the love is represented by a twin compass. ... "Except you enthrall me I shall never be free, Nor ever chaste except you ravish me" Through this Donne represents his idea that salvation is only attained by god breaking the spirit and making it new. ... In the sonnet Batter my heart Donne uses images of evil and torture. Buy defining w...

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Songs of Innocence and Experience' juxtaposes the innocent and pastoral world of childhood against the adult world of corruption, with 'The Lamb' representing a meek virtue and 'The Tyger' showing opposing, darker forces. The lamb is the voice of a child, whilst some critics believe the Tyger is a presence of evil. ... What does the existence of evil in the world tell us about the nature of God - and what does it mean to live in a world where a being can be both beauty and evilness? Pared with 'The Lamb', the two poems give a perspective on religion that...

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This represents the evil side of the world Emerson saw. ... All throughout the poem "Bacchus", Emerson uses wine to represent the "thirst" that people (mainly him) had for new, yet inspiring, not flippant, things in the world. ... As I said before he used truth a lot, as a pure term to represent great knowledge, which he thought everyone could do with some taking of. ... Wine is again representing (a metaphor for) knowledge, or things we need to know. ...

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The connection of the child with the lamb represents how they might have taught the children about Heaven and Jesus as well as God. ... The tiger represents Satan and throughout this poem the reader is getting a good dose of the more evil aspect of the world. ... Blake created the two poems during this time for parents to use as tools to teach their children about the good and the evil of the world. ...

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But he is too weak to resist the pull of evil. ... The metaphor of reason as a viceroy is a way of saying that God is represented in the speaker by his ability to reason. Reason tells him he is sinful, "but it is captived," or in other words, the speaker's reason itself is held hostage by evil and can't help him. ... The enemy is sin or evil or Satan. ...

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Shorter lines represent short quick concise thoughts and long breathy paragraphs represent an idea much longer and more complicated. ... Materialism is the general evil that haunts Ginsberg and he preaches against it in Sunflower Sutra. ... "Gnarled steel roots of trees of machinery" represent the massive metal machines that crawl through our entirely urban landscape and litter our skylines with buildings and shopping malls. Anything that is gnarled is twisted and often has a tendency to be evil and hideous the world itself strikes fear into hearts yong and old. ...

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In addition, by the end of the poem the author starts using more vague words to represent his feelings. ... Within her he can find safety which Wordsworth represents with a willow tree. Its long arms and comfortable shadows cover the author from outside evilness. ... Additionally, Wordsworth represents this unusual figure as if it were some kind of monster. ...

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"But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate" (line 33-34). ... This represent the hair. ... In the beginning of stanza five, Poe says that evil things in robes of sorrow assailed the monarch's high estate (line 34). ...

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The anonymous person in "Education for Leisure" represents an evil persona by his belief of playing God. ... He expresses his thoughts by stating his desires; this represents arrogance for his needs as he sets a challenge to everyone. ... Moreover, the persona in "Education for Leisure" is presented more evil-minded, when he states that as he "pour(s) the goldfish down the bog" and "pull(s) the chain", he feels pleasure and content for the actions he does. ...

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The speaker also repeats images of "night and morning- (l.6) and "day and night- (l.9) to emphasize the struggle between good and evil and thus the struggle between enemies and the torture it creates in the speaker's life. ... Also, the metaphor of a bridal "veil- is employed to represent the merging or marriage of day and night and the unison of friend and foe that will soon be created when one is vanquished. ... The last line, however, is in perfect iambic tetrameter, for the speaker's anguish, represented by the periodic irregularity of the poem, has been alleviated, and the po...

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It is a tale about a visit to the decaying House of Usher, a house haunted by the resident's evil past. ... Unromantic and dull miseries are what represents life, his tales offered miseries, but miseries that were grand and often beautiful in their detailed and glorious construction. ...

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The poems "Out, Out- "by Robert Frost and "Traveling through the Dark" by William Stafford, both shares the theme of civilization destroying nature. In both poems, life and nature is conveyed as fragile and vulnerable, and that technology and civilization has disrupted the nature of life. The tw...

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In the third stanza, the author uses imagery of evil and religion. ... Blake uses the religious imagery of the "black'ning church"(line 10) to represent the loss of good, and the society's lack of religion. ...

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Now, if the spider represents righteousness and purity, then why would it kill a moth? ... The first possibility is that there is a force of evil at work that has created a "design of darkness to appall."... (Line 3-4) It is paradox because at first he takes the position of fire which may represent desire. ...

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It represents defiance and perseverance against negative influences. ... The colour black is often associated to fear and evil. The ocean could be related to its vastness and power therefore this line could be interpreted to represent the poet's life and it being full of cruelty. ...

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In this line of the poem, Suzanne's "perfect body" represents her soul. ... The world is filled with bad and evil things, but Suzanne has learned to see the good side of everything and every person. ... The mirror may also represent that Suzanne is not the Saint that the narrator perceived her to be and that she is a human being capable of making mistakes. ...

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