ODE TO THE WEST WIND Content Ode to the West Wind was conceived and chiefly written in a wood beside the Arno, near Florence. It is divided into two parts; the first one, consisting of the first three ... energy to his work and for the political regeneration of Europe. Shelley, in fact, is concerned with the regeneration of himself poetically, spiritually and of Europe politically. The west wind is seen as the force necessary to effect this generation. As already pointed out, stanza 1 describes the effect of the wind on the land first in autumn and ... completed by a couplet. In terza rima, t...

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... wind is an uncontrollable force of nature that cannot be contained. Throughout the poem, Shelley uses the dead leaves and other figurative devices to show the inspiration the west wind had over him and to help the audience understand the scene he was able to witness. In the first part of the poem Shelley uses the dead ... goes on to wish he were young again and to be free to be taken by the wind. In the final part of the poem Shelley asks the west wind to "Make me thy lyre" and to take control and help him be creative to fulfill his inspiration. Shelley also uses the imagery of the trees...

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ANALYSIS OF SOUND AND FORM IN JOHN KEAT"S "ODE ON A GRECIAN URN" THEME In John Keats poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Keats paints a verbal portrait of a man looking with admiration at an urn. ... me to read the lines faster because it gave the lines a sense of the words rolling downhill. It also counterattacked the repetitive pentameter and added extra readability to the poem. SOUND REPETITIONS Keats used the repetition of the word "happy" in the third stanza in lines 21 and 25. It is as if Keats is demanding the reader's attention when he ... is also its downfall because I feel that it would ...

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... stayed in Washington as a government clerk and also served as a hospital volunteer. Inspired by the suffering he saw, he wrote the volume of poetry called Drum-Taps', published in 1865 {Benet, 187}. After the war Whitman's books began to sell well, and he contributed several articles to magazines. In 1873, ... for the Library of Congress in 1958 and received the Congressional Gold Metal in 1960. Among his other books were Mountain Interval' published in 1916, West-Running Brook' published in 1928, and In the Clearing' published in 1962 {Cox, 57} Frost taught or held advisory posts at Am...

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... sentimental. It is almost like there is no personality. This poem is entirely blank verse. During her vacations she traveled with her family to Europe and to America west. In 1891, as a proper young lady from a wealthy family, she had her debut. She was invited to a numerous parties, but did not get a ... fast, one after another." Amy makes it clear that image does not matter at all. When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you against the jutted stars And shout into the ridges of the wind. Streets coming fast, One after the other, Wedge you away...

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... their experience, without interfering with it, and retaining a perspective on it), and of course the theme of hetero and homo-eroticism (sounds like an orgy one wouldn't care to see). "Drum Taps", another poem collection written from Whitman's reaction to the Civil War, speaks about the futility and ignorance of men pitting themselves against one another in the poem "Reconciliation" ("For ... my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead"). The sequel to the "Drum Taps" collection ("Sequel to Drum Taps") contains the famous eulogy on the Civil War president Abraham Lincoln; "O Captai...

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... because death usually does not randomly stop for anyone; it is an immediate natural process. "Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, silence the pianos and with muffled drum" (Auden 2-3) gives the reader the sorrowful tone the author is trying to inflict by muting everything out. "Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for ... afterlife, trying to let the reader know that is already dead. Auden, on the other hand, uses imagery in a different way. Auden states, "Silence the pianos and with muffled drum bring out the coffin, let the mourners come" and "Put crepe...

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... reader a glance of what is to come, as opposed to what has happened. Throughout the poem, Whitman uses the effect of the continuous beat of the drum and the blowing of the bugle to portray a long struggle. It is also relevant to the beating of a heart, which can be as repetitive and ... consistent as a lifetime of war. It is mentioned in all three stanzas, and Whitman not only utilizes the beating drum to display recurrence, but the actual repetition of the drum in his poem to continuously remind the reader of this long struggle. Whitman also goes so far as to describe the ... drums - yo...

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... the beginning of the poem, when "the sedge is withered from the Lake and no birds sing" (47-48) and these last three stressed syllables sound like the last hit of the drum in a song, thus establishing a strong and definite finale to the poem. Beauty that the knight perceives is only valuable on the physical level, when an examination of ... ...

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... up. In the next stanza the mourners are seated for the service, this line shows that the dreamer has gone back to sleep. The service is described to be like a drum and that is " beating "beating "till I thought/ My Mind was going numb "" Again, the repetition and the word numb shows how as they speak about her life ... strange Race Wrecked, solitary, here "-. Now that she cannot hear what is going on she is alone with her own silence in her coffin. The strange Race is the sound of the mourners and they are wrecked because now that she cannot hear them. The last stanza is her awaking fro...

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... other visual images to describe the Duchess" affection towards other objects than the Duke. Such as lines 26-29 The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace. The figurative language ... of the Duke's animosity for his late wife. Browning utilizes alliteration and assonance in "My Last Duchess." The long "a" sound triumphs over the other vowels throughout the poem. Browning employs the long "a" sound to describe the Duke's wife. The "a" ranges from describing the Duke's last...

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... astounding visual and tactile imagery that only someone with intimate knowledge of the land could write: Tanagers embarrassed by their flashiness and pelicans whose delight it is to clown; who coast for fun on the strong tidal currents in and out among the mangrove islands and stand on the sand-bars drying their damp gold wings on sun-lit evenings (Bishop ... another interesting facet to it as well. It was probably based on an actual event. Bishop grew up in the fishing community of Nova Scotia, and eventually moved to Key West, Florida. She often enjoyed fishing in the Florida Keys. Th...

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... convey the speaker's internal quandary. "You hear the grating roar of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling", this quote gives the stanza an acoustic value. "On the French coast the light gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast," portrays a visual picture of what is present at the scene. Arnold utilizes pleasing words to the ... image is that of the sea. The poem expresses auditory as well as visual imagery. A description of the sea in its states of calmness and roughness are depicted. Sight and sound help intensify other images. The idea of love comi...

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... depression began. However, coming from a wealthy family with a large estate, this problem was of no relevance to the Lowell family. However, the bombing of the U.S. battleship in 1989, off the coast of Maine did stir up some excitement for most of the people who resided in New England. During her time, the first Model T Ford was produced along with the first ... -House Hill," there are several brief examples of assonance: "blue bay beyond" found in line two, as well as other shorter examples: ("shrill and sweet" / "cool, and candid"). However, the sound structure is not the most vitally ...

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... " and later on states how "sweet" it is "to hear their chatter." These two comments being in sheer opposition to each other, showing how she is trying to make herself sound like a "good mother" to this man. Many women feel as if they have to prove themselves to everyone - and Gwen Harwood has picked up on this idiosyncrasy of the female ... is very upset to find when she wakes that nighttime is almost there. It is dusk, and cold. I kneel to pick frail melancholy flowers among ashes and loam. The melting west is striped like ice cream. While I try whistling a trill, close by his nest our ...

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... crowded into the filthy slums in the eastern part of the city while the merchant and the professional classes and the gentry established themselves in the fashionable suburbs in the west. Homes were attacked, looted, and burned, Newgate and Fleet Prisons were attacked and their prisoners released, and troops were required to restore order. Moreover, Shelley, the same romantic poet as ... are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the...

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... calmness, and safety in the small town during the early spring when the coldness of winter remains, "Before the first visitor comes the spring Softening the sharp air of the coast". It is a gentle and "almost hospitable". Mahon gives the otherwise sleepy town a certain charm describing its street, including the sleeping wolfhound and its emptiness. He is able to put himself ... row of gantries rolled Away to reveal the landscape of a childhood". Equally, the people of the civil war days are to be remembered. Their contributions must be remembered despite the sound and humdrum of even oc...

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... convey the speaker's internal quandary. "You hear the grating roar of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling", this quote gives the stanza an acoustic value. "On the French coast the light gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast," portrays a visual picture of what is present at the scene. Arnold utilizes pleasing words to the ... image is that of the sea. The poem expresses auditory as well as visual imagery. A description of the sea in its states of calmness and roughness are depicted. Sight and sound help intensify other images. The idea of love comi...

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... pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace. Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all triumphant splendor on my brow; But out, alack, he was but one hour mine; The region ... literary forms. These poems are fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme of both is abab cdcd efef gg and the rhyme is almost entirely masculine, meaning the rhyme sound is the last syllable of the line. The only place that this idea does not...

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... the silence of the night, 75 How we shiver with affright 76 At the melancholy menace of their tone! The iron bells, heavy and slow, make a sound that is gloomy and is connected with the sound of a funeral. (Napierkowski 50) These bells, the poet explains, are being rung by the ghosts, and the king of ghouls who are happy about the deceased ... through mythological representation of the underworld. In the underworld of Hades, Death rules. Garofalo 3 1 Lo! Death has reared himself a throne 2 In a strange city lying alone 3 Far down within the dim West 4 Where the good and the bad and the ...

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... that this is what Prestatyn is actually like: unspoilt and pure. The poem goes on to describing the palm trees at Prestatyn and the coast. This is described as, a hunk of coast, a hotel with palms'. This hunk of coast' suggests manliness and the palm trees also suggest an erotic type of Eden. This gives the reader the illusion that Prestatyn will be the ... ...

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... expert on Egypt and astronomy. During the Civil War, he works in a hospital in Washington DC area attending to wounded soldiers. He will become our foremost Civil War poet with "Drum Taps". He was also very affected by Lincoln's death so he wrote the Lincoln Poemes. Later he works for the government in the Dept. of Treasury. He suffers from a stroke ... ...

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... is constructed of pairs of rhyming couplets and written in quatrains. A strong and appropriate rhythm is created through the use of stresses and unstressed syllables. The pattern results in a primitive "drum beat" that is apt for a tiger in a forest. The creation verbs "twist", "dare", "burnt", and "seize" foreground the danger and daring of the creation act, while the place of creation ... ...

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... "tyger" is repeated twice and paired with the phrase "burning bright" is an example of alliteration, which entices the reader with a chant-like line. Throughout the poem, the alliteration creates a drum-like beat, possibly suggesting the beat of the tyger's heart as it comes into existence. Other examples of alliteration such as "what wings", "dare its deadly", and "He who" are ... ...

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...  Alcyone. The king goes across the sea on a ship, and a storm arises and drowns all aboard. Queen Alcyone, anxious at home and awaiting his return, sends to the east and west looking for him. Until she knows the king's fate, she will not eat bread. Distraught, she prays to  Juno  to send her a dream that would tell her of the fate ... 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 joining the hunt (355-372). Appreci...

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