... from nature. He starts by telling that he was wandering like a cloud floating above hills and valleys and then he saw thousands daffodils twinkle in the milky way and the water waves that danced beside them brought him joy and company. He never knew what wealth that image would bring him, until he was feeling "vacant" or "pensive ... the next line "When all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils" he is surprised and impressed of this beautiful view that is "Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze." In the second stanza, the speaker continues t...

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... thoughts. The lines "I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning" apply to the actual location of the drowning man, far out in the water and out of his depth, and the distance felt from other people mentally that they did not notice. The fact that they can misinterpret a cry for help as ... heartedness and yet it is clear to the reader that the man didn't feel that way and was crying for help, for someone to notice what was happening beneath the surface. The cold factual tone of "And now he's dead" shows that the people felt little real remorse over his death and ...

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... thoughts. The lines "I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning"apply to the actual location of the drowning man, far out in the water and out of his depth, and the distance felt from other people mentally that they did not notice. The fact that they can misinterpret a cry for help as ... heartedness and yet it is clear to the reader that the man didn't feel that way and was crying for help, for someone to notice what was happening beneath the surface. The cold factual tone of "And now he's dead" shows that the people felt little real remorse over his death and s...

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... him. Blake continues by describing his rising anger with the use of metaphors which also cleverly pertain to the tree analogy he uses throughout the poem. By saying that he "water"d it [his anger] in fears and sunned it with smiles,"( lines 5,7) Blake, obviously not meaning these in a literal sense, implied that this person was using his other emotions to contribute ... to the growth of his anger, as would water and sun do to a tree. Blake goes on to set up not only an analogy to describe the intensity of the anger, but he also incorporates the use of allusion ... he was angry at, as w...

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... of Kipling's stems from England's possession of its territories, shown in the first stanza of "Recessional-: God of our fathers, known of old Lord of our far-flung battle line Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine Lord God of Host, be with us yet, Lest we forget "lest we forget! (1-6) Loss of control of the ... master has a revelation when saying, "Though I've belted you and flayed you, by the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!- (83-85). The water bearer sacrifices his life to save his masters. Kipling's point that he is trying to...

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... ; however, he knows nothing about it. On the other hand, "For Once, Then, Something" can be seen as a projection of death in his poetry. The shinning surface of the well water is the curtain of death beyond which Frost cannot see. Instead he views only a blurred reflection of the sky above him. But then once, just once he sees something. Was ... of using the ambiguity and paradox to articulate the complex ideals within his poems. The contents of his wonderful work can not be judge by their covers. If we dwell beneath surface of his poems, we will discover that he exploits very few words ...

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... between the lifeless "prison" in which the persona is trapped, and the life in the dell, represented by the moisture of the "springy heath", sound of a "roaring stream", fanning of a "water-fall." The mentioning of the "mid-day sun" introduces light into the image, a contrast to the dark lime-tree bower prison. A fine focus is placed on a file of "long lank ... , revealing his enjoyment of this scenery and conveying the delighting effects of his imaginative journey. Upon returning to reality, the persona views the lime-tree bower in a new light, "pale beneath the blaze hung the transpare...

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