In "Because I could not Stopped for Death", Dickinson provides detailed information and description of feelings when she expresses her vision of her own death. ... Moreover, the final line of the poems emphasizes the symbolic function of the statement. ... In Dickinson's journey to the eternity, she uses imagery to create alive situation of her vision. ...
In Shelley's view, "the poet is a dreamer, a visionary- who uses these dreams and visions to "persuade men to shake off the chains of the past, of custom, of selfishness, and to press onward to the vital task of constructing a world characterized by kindness, generosity, and love- (Shairp, Shelly as a Lyric Poet 164) In "Ode to the West Wind," Shelley attempts to gain transcendence, for he shows that his thoughts, like the "winged seeds" (7) are trapped. ... (modified e) In this, Shelley grasps a vision and exaggerates it to the point that "it should awaken thoughts about the future...
The first poem illustrates how the nave and dreamlike visions of children were used in literature during the Romantic period. ... The first poem ends with a didactic statement that "If all do their duty, they need not fear harm." ... The first "Holy Thursday" poem creates a beautiful vision of London's blessed children parading to church. ...
Wilfred Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est about the first World War, in which he had personally fought. It was addressed to Jessie Pope, a writer of other poems concerning the War. Specifically he wrote the poem to counteract her poem "Who's For The Game?". Owen felt that Pope did not comprehend the s...
This statement creates a strong emphasis on the bitterness she feels towards people.I was barbered and stripped by a turf-cutter's spade? ... The first two talking of Heaney's childhood and the visions seen through the eyes of a boy growing up and observing life- learning and experiencing. ...
The precision and careful logic which Yeats commonly used in order to advance us from one point to another in relation to a central statement is maintained. ... As Yeats himself wrote, in A Vision, "I think if I could be given a month of Antiquity and leave to spend it where I chose, I would spend it in Byzantium a little before Justinian opened St. ...
