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... nature or go forward and enter the frenzied outside world. The metaphor, "and miles to go before I sleep" is repeated verbatim to express closure; "sleep" is a synonym for "death," and the impact of the speaker's confirmation that he must forge ahead before he falls asleep forever gives relevance to his unfinished life. By fulfilling the demands ... ...
... have something to look forward to, but then again maybe not, maybe the sentence has a double meaning, maybe "distant rest" is meant to be read further into and is a disguised synonym of the deaths that eventually the men will encounter. If this is the case then the line is quite dark, but if the line is taken as it is written ... ...
... do (we know he has a cart because of the "harness bells"). Also when he is near the woods, he is far away from the city, and the city is like a synonym for life, one of the opposites of life. Another closely related example of symbolism is "Between the woods and the frozen lake". The woods are now a symbol of life, a change ... ...
... in conclusion, the Shakespearian form strays significantly from Petrarch's. McKay's love is that of hate. When he writes of "this dark Passion that fills my every mood" he uses a common synonym of love. He colors this term in black calling it a "dark Passion." This coloring returns at the end of the poem as well. McKay writes of the "tides, the wharves ... ...
... are instructed to welcome melancholy. Keats also determines the consequences of the escape from melancholy, "the wakeful anguish of the soul- (line 10) will be drowned. The drowned soul is a synonym for dulled consciousness which is negative. The second stanza tells us to enjoy beauty containing joy and pain. The first four lines describe rain literally. Keats compares melancholy to rain ... ...
