... because it gives readers visual of what the father looked like going through this part of his routine. The words 'blueblack cold' makes the reader think of the cold as so extreme that it changes skin color. Hayden also mentions how the father started and kept the fire lit for longer in ... hands" (line 3). What the author meant when he uses the words "cracked hands" is the result from hard, painful work in the cold, for which the father doesn't get recognized and respected for doing. You can tell that was the case because the author mentions that "No one ever ... The second stanza...

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... a fire in their home. It was unfortunate that no one had thanked the Father for doing this everyday. Before his laboring weekday outside in the winter cold, he still woke each day before his family and warmed the house. The speaker even tells us that his Father even polished his good shoes. These ... as being a hardworking individual, who is concerned about the well being of his family. The poem's tone shifts in the beginning from a cold, harsh tone to a warmer comforting tone by the seventh line. Although by line nine the poem's tone shifts again to a negative uncomfortable tone. The ....

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... 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 so had no good relationship with him, which emphasis the isolation ... of the man. The line "It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way" is ambiguous as it describes how he really died, the cold water, and his spiritual death: the people were just "too cold" and unfeeling towards him that his heart died. The short last...

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... imprisoned in the coldness of her frustration, grief and sorrow before Phorphyro later on brings experience and warmth into her life. In the poem "The Eve of Saint Agnes" the cold imagery plays an important role as it symbolizes the theme of innocence before experience in the poem, the state of loneliness and imprisonment before freedom as her church and religion ... filled with sorrow, frustration and the coldness of the church of her chastity. Bitter also gives a feeling of chill because of the alliteration sound of "T" that creates a harsh tone. "Was a cold" in the first stanza also ...

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... 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 so had no good relationship with him, which emphasis the isolation ... of the man. The line "It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way" is ambiguous as it describes how he really died, the cold water, and his spiritual death: the people were just "too cold" and unfeeling towards him that his heart died. The short last...

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... in a "leaf-fring'd" setting of "deities or men" in "mad pursuit" of reluctant "maidens", a passionate, heated courtship scene, paradoxically portrayed on a cold, motionless urn. In the second stanza Keats embellishes his ideas of anticipation and imagination: "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter;" He describes how ... envy these images for their immortality: "More happy love! More happy, happy love! For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd" The passion will never grow cold, the reality will never fail to live up to anticipation as when "human passion": "leaves a heart h...

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... speaker is trying to commit suicide. But every time he is trying to do this he gets some of an obstacle. When he tried to drown himself, the water too cold, when he wanted to jump from a sixteen-floor building, it was too high. And eventually he understands that his life is fine, so that if he wasn't able to kill ... use every day in our conversations. In the second stanza thee end words are "hollered", "cried", "cold", "died". In the fourth stanza the end words are the same except "cold" is replaced by "high". The end words in last stanza are written in present tense, except "cold" and...

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... 'Til I can rest again" in which the mother wishes to seek relief from nature. Her wanting to be found of relief is also shown in the lines "Cold icy kisses and Let me rest tonight." This all pertains to the poem's theme, that despite your hardest times, you can find relief outside of yourself, like how the ... wants to be surrounded by nature in order for her to reach her peace. Personification is expressed when she says "Cold icy kisses". This part of the poem is personifying the snowflakes that "Cover me with white Cold icy kisses and Let me rest tonight." Giving nature all these...

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... " to describe the sinking of the grandest ship ever created, the Titanic. In his poem, Thomas Hardy addresses that in April 1912 the unsinkable Titanic was destined to meet the cold iceberg instead of it being a coincidence. Within the lines of his poem, he uses literary devices and irony to emphasize the meaning of each detail. This poem deals with three ... together and are not suppose to encounter each other. This poem has much irony throughout it. One example of this is "steel chambers, late the pyres of her salamandrine fires, cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres" (...

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... church can be seen in the fading light. Blake's use of Black"ning could be symbolic; the church which should be a source of moral warmth and light, is seen as cold and dark. There could be another meaning to the word appalls like a pall over a coffin so it is used to emphasise that the church ignores what it doesn't want to ... curse could be seen in two ways, it could be that she is literally swearing but it could also mean that the unhappy girl is cursing or blaming the hard, cold world she is living in. the most powerful use of imagery in this poem to me is the oxymoron, blights with...

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... we were in his place," this empathises how much that people downtown admire Richard Cory. It again empathises his class in society. This is like Ozymandias, "sneer of cold command," clearly shows that in his day the character has influenced others' lives just like Richard Cory. Shelley's poem differs significantly from Robinson's in how he broadens his exploration ... , "Sculptor, survive, stamped, these, lifeless, things." This is meant to link the harsh hissing, with the harsh visage of the statue. Alliteration is used in Ozymandias in "cold command," Alliteration is used to lend weigh...

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... support his family. The boy unable to appreciate what his father did day to day. Hayden paints more of grim memory as he speaks of sunday morning  "I'd wake to the cold, splintering, breaking. When the rooms where warm, he'd call." The young man looks back and realized how he took for granted the things his father did. "Speaking indifferently ... to him, who had driven out the cold. and polished my good shoes as well." Through his memories, he realizes how lonely his father really was.   Children take for granted their parents, and not realize till adulthood ... ...

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... than a human being in "He was hauled in with the fish" through association with the fish. Then, Heaney broadens the perspective by saying "Now limbo will be/A cold glitter of souls/Through some far briny zone" (16-18). As mentioned before, limbo is where those who cannot reach heaven yet do not deserve hell go, and an ... infant not yet baptized will end up there, so by saying limbo will be "A cold glitter of souls", Heaney is saying that there are many other souls that suffered similar fates to the infant, capitalizing on the amount of pain and suffering the Catholic ... ...

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... character in the poem, "Stealing", is portrays as less energetic and bored out. In the poem, the persona clearly mentions that he "want(s) a mate with a mind as cold as the slice of ice within my own brain". This presents the persona as a friendless and rather lonely being who seeks to have a 'mate' to support him. However ... , the persona also mentions that his 'mind as cold as the slice of ice within' his 'own brain' which implies to how the persona is emotionless, thus linking to how he thinks about himself, as an insensitive person ... ...

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... "marble-heavy ", "ghastly statue with one gray toe " that is too far to reach. As we all know, marble is associated with luxury but is also cold and hard, thus, suggesting Otto Plath as a cold and unreachable father. It continues with stanza five where she writes "I never could talk to you. The tongue stuck in my jaw. " this shows that during her ... ...

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... and therefore believes the shepherds love will not last forever as well. The nymph states, "Time drives the flocks from the field to fold/When rivers rage and rocks grow cold."(pg. 899 Bedford) This shows us that she feels nothing will last because eventually time takes over and everything changes. Even with all the offers the shepherd had for her ... imagery. He uses a lot of figurative language to describe his feelings through out the poem and he relates it all to nature. For example when the nymph says " rocks grow cold," and " flowers do fade," this shows how Ralegh gives action to ...

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... they make the whole phrase seem more realistic. However the best possible example of the author combining multiple senses is when the poet uses two senses to emphasize sight "The cold smell of potato mold, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge," (25-26). Both lines not only include two senses but one of the ... senses uses two onomatopoeic words; squelch and slap. These two words suggest someone moving through thick soggy mud, for some reason it also suggests to me that it was on a cold day. I also feel that the line is also quite interesting to read because it pa...

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... and therefore believes the shepherds love will not last forever as well. The nymph states, "Time drives the flocks from the field to fold/When rivers rage and rocks grow cold."(pg. 899 Bedford) This shows us that she feels nothing will last because eventually time takes over and everything changes. Even with all the offers the shepherd had for her ... imagery. He uses a lot of figurative language to describe his feelings through out the poem and he relates it all to nature. For example when the nymph says " rocks grow cold," and " flowers do fade," this shows how Ralegh gives action to ...

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... . Their hearts were bright and always full of joy and hope before the war. Once it was over and everything they ever knew was gone their hearts turned hard and cold. The fire of joy and hope blew out and they were left with nothing, just darkness. Another metaphor in this poem is, "But after the children were killed, there were ... rhythm such as, "stepped surely" (__) and "bitter to the burned mouth." (__) The "S" in "stepped surely" helps speed up the poem. The "B" in "bitter" and "burned" slows down the rhythm giving a cold and harsh impression of the word. One thing that strikes read...

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... "hell". The bleakness definitely comes through the poem, with haunting images such as "men gasping their lives away". This desperate and chilling image is continued with the winter feeling "ice-cold". Winter has negative connotations, especially when there is no escape for these men and they are stuck outside. This harsh reality is interrupted by the lark who boosts the morale ... most desperate of situations. There is something more powerful and above man which can provide them with hope. The vocabulary within the poem is very effective, "shivered on the ice-cold clay" really aids the ...

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... the poem because it gives the reader the understanding that he is growing old. "When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang/ Upon those boughs which shake against the cold." (line 2-3) Shakespeare feels like he is a tree who is in the late fall, early winter of his life. There aren't many leaves left on the tree and there aren't many ... is just as important to his sonnet. His words are describing a person who is losing youth as well and wants the listener to love him more because of this. Hang, cold, twilight, fadeth, rest, deathbed, expire, and consumed are the words that are most si...

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... lacks in life, though the fact that she had to make it herself again shows low societal stature. Steven writes, "If her horny feet protrude, they come to show how cold she is, and dumb" (13-14). The use of dumb here is not used as in intelligence, but as in mute. More likely it is used as another representation of ... the dichotomy between death and life. Although the sheet is spread to hide her cold, unresponsive face, it is not enough to hide the truth of the matter because it allows for her calloused feet to be exposed, forcing responsibility into the scene. The second ... ...

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... of the uneasiness of the night weather and in the mind of Porphyria's lover. Porphyria herself enters into the poem in the next line, gliding in and shutting out the cold and the storm. This might be a way for the poet to describe what effect Porphyria has on the main character, or it could just follow on with the ... cold air of the storm. The next few lines however do clearly emphasize Porphyria's caring and loving nature, busying herself making the cheerless grate (personified) blaze up, and all the cottage ... ...

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... poetry it is just not one of my strengths. Boy at the Window takes place during the winter as the day prepares for a cold night. The boy is upset that the snowman has to sit out in the cold throughout the night. On the other hand the snowman could care less if he is inside or not. For some reason the snowman ... ...

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... or ever bearable, the way almost rigidly prescribed."(Richardson, 20) He was also quoted to have said, "I'm never serious except when I'm fooling." (Robert, 2) But people often viewed him as cruel, cold-hearted person, even though his poems depicted otherwise. And Frost still received numerous awards for his poetry, including: tributes from the U.S. senate, a Congressional gold medal, and the Nobel Prize for ... astounding poet lasted well over fifty years. His poetry seemed most concerned with the human ability to develop a sense of self worth and identity in a world that can often be ...

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