... must be shaken out of his trance; the cure will have to "awaken" him. In the case of the poet himself, we find a paradox: because of his prolonged insomnia, his waking life seems to be a dream, as if all were illusory (11-15). And conversely, his dream begins with his awakening, both literally in the commencement of the dream vision and figuratively in his subsequent rigorous ... involvement and vitality. Unlike the delinquent gods of sleep, who previously had failed to respond to the horn and the command "Awaketh!" (179-183), the poet reacts to the sound of the horn (346) by actively j...

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... , of the deity. The powers of the west wind are manifested through the seasons of the year as a destroyer, preserver and creator, and in the elements of nature on land, in the air and in the sea. Up until the fourth stanza there is no mention of the supplicant, but in the final two stanzas the poet confesses his own frailties and implores the deity to make the poet's work part of a spiritual awakening of ... a new year. Shelley acknowledges his need for a force beyond his own calculation to lift him and to disseminate a new gospel of hope. Always the divine ... power of the wind is stre...

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... of a mother's pregnancy journey is effectively presented. Despite the second and third stanza mainly identifying with the journey of a foetus, the last stanza of the poem provides the depiction of the awakening of not only the child but also the sleeper. The symbolism of the word, "daylight," defines the awakening of not only the child as it enters the light of the real world, but also the awakening of an individual after a night of sleep. However ... , the use of the word, "expulsion," provides a negative connotation ... ...

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... to be black and a female ( Cosby 719). When Brooks attended a poetry work shop at Fisk University her poetry changed. Critics called the new turning point as an "awakening"( McKay 641). Brooks experienced a change in political consciousness and artistic direction after witnessing the combative spirit or young black authors. Brooks abandoned traditional poetic forms in favor of free verse. Brooks's poetry displays a controlled impressionism ... to be black and a female ( Cosby 719). When Brooks attended a poetry work shop at Fisk University her poetry changed. Critics called the new turn...

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... 's reckoning with Exuberant and obscure, we can see the obscure side of the poem by analysing the text in more detail. By close analysis the poet appears to be talking about the dead, relating back to the "no sun shines" part of the title. We discover that Thomas is telling a tale of an awakening. An awakening from beyond the grave, from beyond the realms of normality and what we understand to ... be natural life. The poem talks about the arousing of a life an entity within a skeleton. The glowworms beco! me the catalyst that brings the life, "with glow worms The things of light File thr...

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... 's reckoning with Exuberant and obscure, we can see the obscure side of the poem by analysing the text in more detail. By close analysis the poet appears to be talking about the dead, relating back to the "no sun shines" part of the title. We discover that Thomas is telling a tale of an awakening. An awakening from beyond the grave, from beyond the realms of normality and what we understand to ... be natural life. The poem talks about the arousing of a life an entity within a skeleton. The glowworms beco! me the catalyst that brings the life, "with glow worms The things of light File thr...

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... to Amherst Academy where she studied philosophy, the doctrines of a sovereign God, and the necessity for personal salvation. Dickinson however did not accept these teaching of the Unitarian church attended by her family and despite her desire to experiences a religious awakening. Biographers generally agree that Dickinson experienced an ... emotional crisis of an undermined nature in the early 1860's(Young 76). Dickinson refusal to leave her home or to meet any one became the start of isolation. It became even further ... pain (Bloom, critical 19). Throughout Dickinson's life, there wer...

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... complicated person. She started out with a rough childhood, stemmed mainly from conflict with her father. He was badly wounded by the war, not necessarily physically, but emotionally, he talked almost incessantly about the war, specifically the conflict between Germany and Poland. The effects of the war, and her father, can be seen strongly in Plath's poem - Daddy where she explains her feelings toward him. She ... was unable shed any memories of him, and this drove her into depression; she was still under her fathers control from beyond the grave. Hughes' The Minatoar compares her fath...

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... and American society (Barbour, 13). Theirs was a generation that urged change in both literature and society. "New Poetry", as it was called, was largely a movement against the Romanticism of the previous decades where poets favoured familiar words and phrases, often attempting to create distinctly American speech (Barbour, 18). Rather than uniting abstracts like truth or beauty in their work ... many men. Though women had been present in the literary world for many years prior to the early twentieth century, they were still expected to be at home with the children rather than working or ...

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... Holyoke Female Seminary after graduation. She studied many different courses in sciences, literature, history, and philosophy. Dickinson was not able to accept the teachings of the Unitarian church, which her family attended. She had a strong desire to experience a religious awakening, but did not succeed. After completing her only one year of her "college" education, Dickinson moved back home to live with her ... parents and her younger sister, Lavinia, in the family's home. Her older brother, Austin and his wife, Susan, lived next door. Many people believed she ... Her poems explore...

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... is primarily white males it is limited to a small portion of the population. The rest of the population "women, blacks, Hispanics, those of Oriental descent and other "are excluded and their opinions are often overlooked. Until recently, Kate Chopin has been excluded from the canon so her masterpiece, The Awakening has been ignored. The tales of slavery written by former slaves or children of former ... slaves also have been excluded. The fact that the canon only has books older than a hundred years included in it mean that modern works are sometimes ignored ... , so the canon also makes...

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... the mind of a crow. The poem begins with what seems to be the crow's awakening in realizing his own existence. As the poem progresses, it gradually gets darker as the questions he poses get harder and harder to answer. By seeking the truth and tackling the unanswerable, the crow reaches the ... conclusion that all of what is good and bad is really just one in the ... same and that religious faith alone does not account for why evil persists. The ... from four lines to two lines, back to four lines to three lines, to one line and finally ending the poem with a three line stanza. The poe...

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... have freedom of speech when entering Canada, which amplifies their own personal voice. This is evident in the 1997 poem "Moving," by Shahriar Shahriari. Shahriari skillfully uses vivid diction, awakening tone and the use of rhetorical devices in his poem to showcase his immigrant voice and feelings through his literary ... work, showing the struggle he had to endure and how it made him the man he is today. Initially when reading "Moving", by Shahriar Shahriari the use of ... different then what he is accustomed to. It is a completely different word and life that he has to go through. He...

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... What begins as a seemingly humorous cat and mouse hunt, soon develops into an insatiable lust for blood. Kumin's descriptive language provides the reader with the insight necessary to understand to the speaker's psychology as they are driven beyond the boundaries of pacifism. The poem does indeed have a rhyme scheme, yet doesn't conform to conventional forms of rhyme such as A, B, A, B, etc. ... reveals yet another disturbing element of the killer's psychology. "If only they"d all consented to die unseen gassed underground the quit Nazi way." This statement is indicative of many things, o...

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... as Stourton Tower, 36And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge. The main theme of this poem is about the atrocities or horrific actions in war. This poem was published shortly before World War I, so it was like predicting the future. Threw the use of imagery it shows us the brutality of war, so bad that it was awakening the dead. The central question that Hardy seems to be asking us ... is, is it human nature to always be in the quest for power and control and not worth God's judgment, but to be ... sent directly to the devil. This poem makes extensive illusions to God threw out it. The poem...

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... 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 ... and does not stop at death. The third line is the person feeling regret for giving up; it ... 's her way of saying I"m sorry for giving up. The final sentence pretty much says that although the person now realizes that giving up is not ... ...

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... come and go but death is a given thing. Even the greatest love in the world cannot keep you form dying. In conclusion I think that death is constant beyond love. Walt Whitman "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" In Whitman's poem it describes a man's awakening as a poet, mentored by nature and maturing consciousness through the song of the mocking bird. The man watches a pair of birds nesting on ... the beach near his home, and marvels at their relationship to one another. This makes his outlook ... on the world a brighter one giving him hope in a way. Making him feel as if everyone c...

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... map of ones inner most desires and regrets. As the stanzas are revealed so is the persona's journey. There is a struggle to develop the ability of accepting fate as Keats ponders the idea of self-worth and spiritual existence in the world. Through the "Ode" the poet unveils the awakening of self-completion. As the narrator is wandering in a dream-like world, he is startled to see two lovers in ... the distance. He watches them intently: "In deepest grass, beneath the whisp"ring roof" (Keats 878). The plush colours that surround them exaggerate the intensity of the poem. The descriptive ...

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... it is at times of tragedy and despair that even he cannot let go of superstition. "My mother only said: Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children." The conclusion is most effective. Where everyone is concerned about the mother and is praying for her life, on awakening, she thinks of only her children. A truly Indian way of thinking. Night of ... the Scorpion "Nissim Ezekiel "I remember the night my mother was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours of steady rain had driven him to crawl beneath ... a sack of rice. Parting with his poison -- flash of diabolic tail in the dark ro...

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... snake for the water trough, the spondee in line 23 interrupts his thoughts, awakening the reader with "he must be killed," a line that is impossible to read without the authoritative voice the stressed syllables demand. The voice that speaks to him in spondee is contrasted with the opposing voice in his head for the remainder of the poem. Even as the persona is proclaiming the beauty of the snake, the unpredictable form ... of the poem causes the reader to be hesitant ... ...

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... renowned contemporary, Alfred Lord Tennyson. Unlike Arnold, he expressed a compromising attitude to his age and its intricate problems. Tennyson, we find, in his Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters, The Charge of the Light Brigade, holds such a sort of view which is supposed to find a middle ground. He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert ... spirit is conspicuous in the following lines from In- Memoriam, `It stands to reason that the Victorian age was an age of material affluence, expansion of education, scientific advancement, industrial and mechanical progres...

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... for Eliot an emotional or spiritual state. The four locales also stand for the four elements. "East Coker" is earth, "The Dry Salvages" water, "Little Gidding" fire, and "Burnt Norton" air, the world of thoughts, words, philosophy and poetry. The Quartets taken together, then, embody a journey from the ignorance of time to an awakening in eternity. "Burnt Norton" is the most explicitly concerned with time as an abstract ... principle. The first section combines a hypothesis on time, that the past and the future are always contained in the present, with a description of a rose garden whe...

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