... is in two states of minds, the first one being his feeling of desperation, his wanting to give up. The second is his determination to finish climbing the mountain. These two different feelings of Noyce forms an emotional struggle. We can clearly see hints of the first thought all throughout the poem ... , when Noyce is questioning himself in line 6 "why at all?" about the reason he's climbing the mountain, in lines 9 to 12, Noyce is thinking about holidays, thinking of a ... out, and this shows that he wants the whole journey to be easier, and that he doesn't want to continue anymore b...

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... eventually broke out of his trance, possibly with the aid of his horse, by thoughts of prior commitments. The former statement is shown in the text by the line "He gives his harness bells a shake to ask if there is some mistake"(L.L. 9-10) and the latter by: "But I have promises to keep And miles ... the year"(L.8), refers to the winter equinox that occurs every 21st of December. If we look at it symbolically, this line could have been written to convey the peak of Frost's efforts to finish his book New Hampshire. Furthermore the equinox aspect of this poem symbolizes the transition from...

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... include that which it enables him to give-and power has made him most certainly wealthy. The strength of the subject's gaze is reinforced in line 6, where it is said to have a captivating sway over all it looks upon, "gilding the object whereupon it gazeth". This ... by his blessing, constrained by his power. In his description of the subject as "a man in hue all hues in his controlling" (line 7), Shakespeare examines how double meanings help us envision the subject more accurately. If we interpret "hue" as "color", he suggestion ... which suffers like our subject with the constraining r...

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... realization, it becomes evident who our speaker really is. Sexton expresses her poem through an ABABCBC pattern, which is different then your normal six or eight line stanzas and is instead seven. At the end of the three stanzas, she uses repetition to get her point across and to give a more personal feeling ... trying to feed her family and make everyone happy. So here we see our speaker on the path back to sanity but not necessarily happiness. The next line, "rearranging the disaligned " (12) signifies pulling herself and her life together and trying to find that balance of the crazines...

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... . Water is representative of comfort, peace, and calm, although the idyll of Susanna's bath is broken by her yearning for "melody" (line 23). Thus one can tell that Stevens sees the elders' victim herself as a sexual individual. As Susanna leaves her bath, she steps onto the ... her but where she can experience the emotion of music. As she walks, she is interrupted by a crashing cymbal "Amid roaring horns" (line 40); this return to music represents the encroachment of desire upon her haven, specifically, her seduction by the elders. With a succession of medium-fast ... rhyming couplets ...

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... lines "The hand that held my wrist, was battered on one knuckle" gave me the idea that the father was a hard-working man (758). In Hayden's poem it was the line "then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made"(1204). This is the main point that I think the poems are alike. Both fathers in each poem ... make you think. Hayden on the other hand uses some words to kind of throw you off in a way. "What did I know of love's austere and lonely offices"(1204). This line confused me with the use of the words austere and offices. It seems though to me that Hayden wants...

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... return to the arctic in the future. "The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery, I've bade "em good-bye - but I can't." (lines 47-48) "And I want to go back - and I will." (line 56) In the first quotation, repetition of the word "the" followed by a noun is used along with alliteration using "m" sounds to make the communication more effective. The repetition of the ... the rich and would like to return to the simplicity of the Yukon. "They"re making my money diminish; I"m sick of the taste of champagne. Thank God! when I"m skinned to a finish I"ll pike to the Yukon again." (lines 57-60) S...

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... to this poem do not resist this poem" (Reed). Reed's poem goes through various, opposing transitions from start to finish. The tone goes from a haunted, suspenseful feeling, to a terrified, trapped feeling, to a more relaxed yet still consumed feeling. The speakers ending line is, "this poem is the reader and the reader is the poem" (Reed). Moreover, the underlying message ... ...

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... this piece, the speakers state the obvious. The dialogue is an ingenious catalyst used by Frost to create a new style of poetry, which is a characteristic of Modernism. From start to finish, this piece is gripping, allowing the reader to become part of the poem. Frost throws the truth of the poem in the reader's face rather than alluding to the meaning ... . From the beginning the reader recognizes an intense disconnection between the husband and wife speakers. In the first stanza it states, "I will find out now-you must tell me, dear," (line 12). Here the husband is probing at his wife'...

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• Grade Level: High School