... that the poet is foolish enough to assume that his offer of a gaudy bed in return for a night's sleep would carry the same weight, with Juno, as Alcyone's anguished offer of her life's service in search of knowledge of the fate of her husband, again shows Chaucer ... from the narrator, blurts out that she has died. At last the dreamer understands and agrees that the Black Knight has indeed suffered a great loss. The hunting horn sounds, signaling the end of the hunt. The king's hunting party goes off toward a long castle, and a bell tolls ... Fortune's vagaries takes the medieval lite...

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... destroy any inhibitions reserved by the speakers maiden. The speaker then question's her, "Thou know'st it this cannot be said / a sin, a shame, nor loss of maidenhead;". Here, the speaker furthers his campaign, claiming that if blood can mix, as it does in sex, through such a miniscule flea, then sexual acts ... indeed survived the killing of the flea, he capitalizes on the situation by explaining that her fears of sex are false since sex involves no greater loss of blood and no greater death. Then, strategically, the speaker ends the poem without giving his lover a chance to refute his ...

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... the oppression. They would conquer as Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number " Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you " Ye are many "they are few. If the Englishmen united, the power of unity would overcome all the tyranny. Throughout "The Mask of Anarchy-, we can totally understand how Shelley ... ...

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... Journey,"" "The Haunter,"" and "Your Last Drive."" "After a Journey- is about a love that is lost, but is still with him, and "The Haunter- is for the loss of a close friend, and "Your Last Drive- is about a lost love, and not knowing how to be with that person again. With the influence of his mother, and ... to use many of the literary techniques, but mostly those of kennings and aprorias in his poetry (poems). Themes that Hardy tends to write about are those mostly of loss, or letting go. He writes mostly of mourning poems (see poems). After a Journey By: Thomas Hardy Hereto come to vie...

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... : a terrible beauty is born.' Yeats was very much in two minds about the Rising. The beauty of the insurrection lay in the idealism and courage of the rebels, but the loss of human life and the fanatical instance on the need for a blood sacrifice gave this beauty a 'terrible' quality. Yeats is to be admired for his detached, balanced attitude towards ... . 'My county is Kilcarten Cross/my countrymen Kilcartan's poor.' However, regardless of how the war ends, these people will not be affected. 'No likely end could bring them loss/Or leave them happier than before.' He did no...

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... the word 'and', the punctuation and the alliteration increase the pace of the poem, making the town seem crowded like a block of industry and bland because there 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 desires of the occupants of the city as 'chea...

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... him in search of someone who speaks their language to quell their ills. Many long days have been spent aiding those like him. He is deeply affected by his own loss of what once was, his new country being the cause of a slow death. The doctor's surrender to his plight as a physician living in America is so woeful that one wonders ... possibly know. One must ask if Alvarez, writing in English and interjecting in Spanish, was doing so to spite those who could not possibly empathize with feelings of alienation and loss. It is unfortunate that Julia Alvarez's writings have such a forced, "mo...

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... because he does not mention Europe until the very last line, yet what he says in only one line means so much more. Owen is expressing his opinion that the loss of so many young lives is unnecessary and preventable. Owen's poem "1914" marks the beginning of World War I. This, like "The Parable," is an extended metaphor and it expresses Owen ... to rot. Owen finishes by saying "But now, for us, wild Winter, and the need / Of sowings for new Spring, and blood for seed" (13-14). Owen is mourning the loss of the progress, and he blames the war for it all. He believes that the world is in nee...

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... wealth, Better than banking, trade or leases " Take a bank note and fold it up, And then you will find your money in creases! This wonderful plan, without danger or loss, Keeps your cash in your hands, where nothing can trouble it; And every time that you fold it across, 'Tis as plain as the light of the day that you ... double it! There are a few literary techniques used in this poem. He rhymes "leases- and "creases- in lines 2 and 4. "Loss- (5) and "across- (7) rhyme, as well as "trouble- and "double- in lines 6 and 8. These rhyming techniques add to the humor and simplicity of the po...

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... 's land' between the old Radicalism and the new Socialism. In 1928 universal suffrage for women was obtained, paradoxically during a time when growing economic depression and slump appeared to lend increasing weight to Marxist analyses of the inevitable failure of capitalist economic systems. Culturally too, increasing access to literacy, and to education in general, led to profound changes in the reading public ... ...

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... such possibilities, his hopes or worries following what he can take from others for himself. His nickname, Little Chandler, is not misplaced on this man who has probably carried the weight of insecurity and the need to be accepted from childhood into his constructed adult life. Chandler's life, we find out later in the story has been unliterary, and uneventful. The ... ...

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... in to the temptation of the fruit, died at the first snow fall. Later reference is made to Jeanie as having "joys brides hope to have." This reference brings material weight to the sexual enjoyment Lizzie feels during the consumption of the fruits: Then sucked their fruit globes fair or red: Sweeter than honey from the rock. Stronger than man-rejoicing ... ...

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... a September 1957 letter to his father, Ginsberg comments on the publicity of Howl: "Too much publicity at this point; I'm beginning to think "Howl" is too slight to support so great a weight of bull"(Ginsberg, Allen, Family Business. September 1957) ...

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... of his friends and family. All we get is a description of a peaceful death that leads the soldier to an even more blissful "English heaven." The realities of war-death, sadness, loss, you name it-are not to be found in "The Soldier," or Brooke's work in general. You'll have to look elsewhere for that stuff. ANALYSIS THOUGH-O-METER (2) Sea Level ... ...

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... in its place the spirit of doubt and inquiry was brought in. Faith in God and religion was overshadowed by the power of ruthless logic of science. It all created loss of coherent meaning to life. The creative minds of the Victorian era found themselves on the seas of doubt. This condition of Victorians has been brilliantly summed up by Matthew ... ...

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... arms of the air- she begs, "lift me and take me there."" Though Robinson puts a new spin on the Sapphic death, she still uses Sappho as a figure of death and loss of love. It is only with the works of Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper that the Victorian Sapphic myth becomes an icon of love, rather than death. Bradley and Cooper ... ...

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... . He believed that a person had two times when complete understanding of the world was possible: while in the 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 connected with the self ... ...

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... 's side". The quote itself actually is a good example of how Keats brings about a cold feel to the poem at this point, which is ironic as we associate cold temperatures with loss. However, this conflict takes a new twist in the Heaney poem, "An Advancement of Learning". This time the conflict goes one step further and is ironically portrayed in a militaristic style with ... ...

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... Anna Ladd Dingley died. When Linda was a young two years old Sexton gave birth to her sister, Joyce Ladd Sexton. With the combined pressure of her new family and the loss of her "Nana" Anne was admitted into a mental hospital. Eight months later, she had experienced her first attempt at suicide. It was at the strong suggestion of her psychiatrist that ... ...

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... , it can be said, the culmination of these poems show a "melancholy desire for a world that is always elsewhere" (Holderness 1988:97). These poems grasp at common and inconsolable senses of loss and alienation of where they belong. As the poems sees it reality, they discover that reality is absent, merely wished for and essentially unattainable "Adieu! The fancy cannot cheat so ... ...

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... . Rupert Brooke is happy to die for his country, but knows nothing of what comes before death on the Western Front: exposure, mud, the constant dangers of snipers, the regular loss of friends and comrades. There are certain passages in Birdsong that reflect this poem in different ways. There is a section that runs from page 220-224 which shows us the ... ...

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