... they had "a glimpse of the bay while pet fowl come to knee." The final stanza is the saddest as it mixes the arrival of death with the uselessness of materialism after we are all dead and gone. The first stanza seems to be the happiest as the family "change to a high new house," until the reader realizes this is a euphemism for heaven. The repeated line from stanza one ... ;high new house." The final line in the final stanza in the saddest yet, as it confirms their demise. The weather is used to subtly affect feeling as the stereotypically sad rain "ploughs" "down their carved names." Th...

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... longed to drive alone in a sports car, looking very glamorous, by wearing a headscarf, as well as dark glasses. The second mother wishes to ride through an autumn morning on a horse with the wind blowing her hair. She also wants to surf, wearing a black bikini, during the summer. These two women have very similar dreams, as all they really wish for is freedom. This freedom they ... . Another technique Scannell uses is metaphors. In stanza four he describes the childless woman's love life in an odd way: " He had gone to play the lover, with a new lead in a different. " This illustrates th...

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... is the third season of the year and has been associated with many depressing times. Autumn has also defined as the "season of early decay." The phrase, "Autumn Years", means the final years of someone's life. John Keats portrays his feelings on how this season is affected by be the idea of death in the poem, "To Autumn." He uses the season, autumn, to show how the change of the season ... where they can be collected and stored for next winter. In life, someone is born; they grow up until the time comes for them to move out on their own to start a family. "Close bosom-friend of the matur...

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... writes; "Somewhere, people have entirely forgotten about tomorrow. My hand trails in the water. I should not have dropped those oars. Such a soft wind." The first line goes back to the saying that you don't know what you have until its gone, meaning the person in the poem never really thought of life with out the person she was with and now is forced to whether she wants to or not ... . The second line is metaphoric for her awakening or epiphany that life goes on ... away from shore with no paddles and a soft wind. I feel the author has written about several different things without eve...

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... stanza Wilfred Owen moves onto the physical side of the war. He talks about the fighting it self. But also it talks about the weather and the mental tricks it played on the soldiers. Wilfred Owen rights "we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles". These two lines are trying to give the conception of the wind acting as a person who is ... pulling the barbed wire in no-mans land. In the last two lines though Wilfred Owen ... the cold rather than the bullets. The fifth stanza is based around the winter. Wilfred Owen's first line of the sta...

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... conflict of having to let someone go if the love has gone, but also the importance of seizing and cherishing the love if it is there. Pablo Neruda begins to create a calm, serene image in the second stanza. The crystal moon symbolizes how clearly he's able to see the relationship between the woman he loves and himself. "The red branch of the slow autumn at my window" (5-6), shows that his ... only change, but harvest as well. He sees the possibility of the bountiful harvest of love the relationship can potentially have. The speaker easily flows through many forms of imagery. He begins w...

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... poem can be looked at as all couplets. The rhyme scheme is aabbcc, aaddee, aaffgg. There is an airy breeziness to this poem. I can almost feel the exhilarating weariness of the friends on their watery venture, "We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry" (2). Each of the poem's stanzas begin with the same refrain, which establishes the mixture of exhilaration and fatigue that make Millay's artistic ... care only about having a good time. This is a lyrical poem filled with alliteration: bare, bright, smelled, stable; looked, leaned, lay; wan, wind. The beauty of the human particip...

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... . This is supposed to create a sense of misunderstanding. The false impression of the rhythm covers the inner struggle in the speaker. The sounds of Arnold's poem help convey the speaker's internal quandary. "You hear the grating roar of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling", this quote gives the stanza an acoustic value. "On the French coast the light gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast," portrays ... -human objects. His word usage compares his life to the sea. He opens the poem describing the sea as tranquil and calm, while later he continues to ...

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... . This is supposed to create a sense of misunderstanding. The false impression of the rhythm covers the inner struggle in the speaker. The sounds of Arnold's poem help convey the speaker's internal quandary. "You hear the grating roar of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling", this quote gives the stanza an acoustic value. "On the French coast the light gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast," portrays ... -human objects. His word usage compares his life to the sea. He opens the poem describing the sea as tranquil and calm, while later he continues to ...

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... gone blind for a short while. The darkness is then contrasted by the flare the enemy have sent up, lighting the sky, the soldier can see things now, and he sees "nimble rats." The word "nimble" suggests the rats are moving quickly, contrasting to the men's slow movement. Then as the flare died and it became dark again, "the slow, silver moment died in dark." The double alliteration used here with the word "moment" makes the ... sentence long, and the long vowels emphasises this. As the pace becomes quicker, a cold wind adds to the discomfort and rifles are shot. The rifle shots "split a...

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