... that if a body wasn't buried properly, the departed's soul would not rest. Therefore, the living were required to treat the dead properly, and the prevention of survivors from doing so was the instigation of dramatic crisis in many works of classical literature. The narrator's slightly humorous description of the gift he would give the god Morpheus is a parallel to the pious offering that Alcyone makes in her prayer ... 's apathetic attitude; but Chaucer is tactful and wise enough to know that moralizing is not an effective strategy against listlessness. Thus, the only direct discourse ag...

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... jury. This poem is full of imagery, metaphors and strong words. Beginning with the title the reader instinctively conjures up the condemnation of Judge Faolain. You sense from "Dead Long Enough: A Summons something very important is about to be revealed because the person to whom the summons is written now "Dead Long Enough". Like the previous poem, this poem also has an exceptionally long first sentence continues through ... two verses into the 25th line of the poem which begins the third stanza. The reader can sense the purposeful stride of the narrator from the long length of this fi...

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... bore, shaped, made aware." England can't really do these things, so this is a case of personification (the attribution of human qualities to non-human things). Dust is a metaphor for the speaker's relationship to nature and for the fact that he may soon be dead. Line 6: England gave the speaker "flowers to love" and "ways to roam." England can't actually give anything, really (nice try, though ... ), so this is an example of personification, the attribution of human qualities to non-human things. Line 8: The speaker was "washed" by England's rivers ... . It's interesting to note that th...

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... has been balanced by other writers who have made use of popular forms in order to communicate with a wider audience. A tension in writing between the popular and the esoteric, and the popular and specialized, the commercial and the avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. Isolation and alienation, together with experimental forms of expression, came to characterise serious literature, while ... Lenin (1932) are highly significant as examples of the earliest left-wing poems, establishing what was to become a major trend in the 1930s. Edwin Muir, while less politicall...

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... there was a lucky escape and it uses images such as death. At the end of the fifth stanza the tone completely changes, the stanza makes the audience realise the outcome of the battle and that was Death'. As we go to the last stanza, the imagery has changed completely in contrast with the beginning. In the last stanza, the dead are honoured and they are shown as glorious, even though they lost. In ... addition, it questions the decision and it shows that it was not very ... small again. This was because the soldiers died, a small stanza suggests the tempo is slow, it gets peaceful and c...

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... a rather dour German, probably not, but it still makes one think Whitman believed that the self was an amalgam of all people - alive or dead, good or bad - in the world. He believed that we all share a common bond through the "life source," a primeval force that defined the world: Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed Earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset! Earth of ... the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of ... are a lamentation on humanity's permanent loss of understanding, there is no point i...

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... Irish heroes – qualities which, in Yeats's opinion, are 'dead and gone.' The heroes of the past 'were of a different kind.' Their attitudes and values were fundamentally different from those of the merchants. Yeats speaks of those heroes whose names 'stilled' the 'childish play' of the middle-class people he now rebukes. These heroes had 'little time' ... would be mocked and denigrated in the Ireland of 1913. The merchants coldly act in their own self-interest. The poem ends on a particularly gloomy note. Yeats sadly concludes that if futile raising the memorie...

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... and William Godwin, radical political writers. Throughout his life, he emphatically expressed his political and religious views in a struggle against social injustice, often to the point where it got him into trouble or mired in controversy. Later, in Italy, after he had lost his wife, Mary, and his 3 children ... could see Hope. Hope is like a maniac maid who dared challenge the power of Anarchy. Ironically, her name was Hope but she was quite hopeless to fight against Anarchy. Talking about her father's old-age and his many dead children, Hope implied that time was running out and the...

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... mind, but some other essence that was longing now for peace on a quiet, shadowed road where no guns sounded." This supports Sassoon's theory that being dead is better than being at war since what Stephen describes is obviously better than the situation he is currently in. This passage shows Stephen momentarily slipping into insanity, another example of why Sassoon is protesting about ... wish to live: - "What I've seen . . . I don't want to live anymore" He goes on to say how glad he is that his son is dead and doesn't have to live in their world. This shows how the physical conditions ...

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... life in the nature surrounding him. The old yew "which grapsest at the stones/ That name the underlying dead,/ Thy fibers net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapped about the bones" (2.1-4). Therefore he sees the tree as an extension of the graves it grew on. The roots are entangled around the dead bones and are as dead as the skull of the person, unable to dream ever again. The world around the tree and ... grave will begin again to bloom, but Tennyson feels the ... tree will not change and keep its gloomy appearance throughout the year. He ... ...

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... jury. This poem is full of imagery, metaphors and strong words. Beginning with the title the reader instinctively conjures up the condemnation of Judge Faolain. You sense from "Dead Long Enough: A Summons something very important is about to be revealed because the person to whom the summons is written now "Dead Long Enough". Like the previous poem, this poem also has an exceptionally long first sentence continues through ... two verses into the 25th line of the poem which begins the third stanza. The reader can sense the purposeful stride of the narrator from the long length of this fi...

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... 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 ... "Light breaks where no sun shines" the la...

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... 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 ... "Light breaks where no sun shines" the la...

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... into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.) God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade: Exit seraphim and Satan's men: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have loved ... a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)" This Poem Describes The Poet's Feelings for a Man She Knows that she Can...

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... good and it only leaves her saddened. She can't let go of those memories, 4 "The poem is a figurative drama about mourning--about the human impulse to keep a dead loved one alive emotionally. And it is about mourning gone haywire "a morbid inability to let go of the dead- (Bundtzen 93). At the age of nine she was unready for her father's death when she says, "You ... psyche as a vampire, sacrificing her own life's blood, her vitality, to a dead man. The worship of his father-god, she now realizes, is self destructive- (Bundtzen 93). Plath's attitude towards men is expressed in the passa...

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... -coloured hair, And gray eyes, and rose-flush coming and going. Yes: I have re-entered your olden haunts at last; Through the years, through the dead scenes I have tracked you; What have you found to say of our past " Scanned across the dark space wherein I have lacked you? Summer gave us sweets, but autumn wrought division? Things were not lastly as firstly well ... - Hardy is said to have compromising information, and he restrict the love's independence (Ramazani 135). Your Last Drive By: Thomas Hardy Here by the moorway you returned, And saw the borough lights ahead That lit your face-...

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... -line quatrain with a mournful, prayer-like statement: "So farewell life and love and pleasures new." The blunt absoluteness of this line is a powerful tool used by Rosetti to convey the irrevocable consequences of the death of the two pigeons. The description of the actual bodies of the dead birds is extremely poignant as the "snow-white plumage flecked with crimson drops" is noted. This tainted image of perfection is ... distort and distressing to the reader as the purity of the wing plumage being contaminated with evidence of killing and bloodshed ... ...

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... ! drums!-blow! bugles! blow! Make no parley "stop for any expostulation, Mind not the timid "mind not the weeper or prayer, Mind not the old man beseeching the young man, Let not the child's voice be heard, not the mother's entreaties, Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses, So strong you thump O terrible drums "so loud you bugles blow.{Whitman ... , 186} Whitman is shedding light upon an historical era of the American Civil War. As he ... , But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself, To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or...

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... cranes cluster'. The use of 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 oc...

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... through in a painful epiphany later in the story, after his dreams have been shattered by the harsh reality of Gallaher's character, just as the dreams of the Irish have been shattered and cloaked under a reputation of the past and a pride on those that are long dead. Chandler's dormant perceptions arise as he looks into the face of his wife, whom symbolically, by the pact of marriage, is a mirror ... for himself. Her cold passionless eyes are a reflection of what it is she is gazing upon, and at the moment of the story, it is Chandler. Ironic that ... chandler perceives more from his ...

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... and spiritual feelings. Despite his surface simplicity, Poe's artistry can be appreciated only when a reader explores his use of literary devices. In "The Raven,"" the persona begins his tale in his home on a dark and gloomy December night in this paraphrase: Once, during a dreary midnight, while ... the air grew thicker, scented from something unseen raised by angels whose faint footsteps tapped on the floor covered with tufted carpet (79-80). "Rat,"" I cried, "your God has sent you with these angels to ease the pain and induce forgetfulness of sorrow from the memories of Lenore; let me...

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... " style, however instead of calling for his listener to seize the day, the speaker calls for sensual liberation. It seems that, perhaps in order to maintain the purity of the virgins, he equates sex to the gathering of rosebuds. The repetition of floral images in the opening lines bring to mind the process of the "de-flowering" (the rupture of the hymen) of a virgin, often described as a painful experience, but in ... since Homer"(Elliot 259). The two lovers no longer exist in the timeless fantasy world, but in the harsh environment from whence they came, the world in which the speaker's...

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... is depicted as a hero. The third stanza is a sort of relief from the clear sadness of the rest of the poem. The next major mood change comes with a time again "at ten o"clock the ambulance arrived". He has already been told by his mother most probably that his brother is dead at this point. But this ... "Churning Day" because there is a lot for him to describe. He uses almost as many metaphors in "An Advancement of Learning" to describe the rat, although there is less for him to describe in this poem. He uses very few metaphors in "Mid-Term Break because he prefers to ... 4) and "sooth...

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... and amaze, like his witty conceits. Therefore, readers appreciate s poetry, as they are almost taken in by the fallacious pseudo-logic, seeing the brilliance of the deception, and then seeing that there was a point being made. As well as manipulation of ideas, wit ... Unrealistic, bizarre metaphors 4. Departure from convention 5. Exciting verse 6. Irrelevant, blasphemous apostrophes and imperatives 7. Intellectual humour 8. Double entendre 9. Ironies, satire 10. Borders on the ridiculous - Metre: 1. Colloquial and aggressive 2. First person 3. Conversational 4. Dramatic 5. Questioning 6. ...

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... gives poetry its defining characteristics. Poetry is form of literature, spoken or written, which emphasizes rhythm and other intricate patterns of sound and imagery. The word poetry is derived from a Greek word, poesis, meaning "making" or "creating." Poetry in its simplest form is divided in segments called ... . During Ginsberg's elementary school existence his mother would suffer several relapses which would cause governmental intervention. It was not until Ginsberg reached the age of thirteen that his mother illness would take hold of Ginsberg's life. It was at this point in his life...

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