... all three poems quite a lot to create an image in our minds of how these things looked. In "Churning Day", "Their white insides" (Line 11), "gold flecks" (Line 18) and "a yellow curd" (Line 23) are where Heaney uses colour to describe how these things looked. These phrases really do bring the poem ... is slow, "slugged" is a slow tired, word. In the third stanza the results of the process start to appear "gold flecks", "butter spades", "birchwood-bowl", the mood itself changes with "Where gold flecks began to dance". The final stanza is a bit like an epilogue, when everything is over. Th...

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... come and give him much-needed rest himself. He describes the offering he would make to Morpheus and to his goddess, Juno: an elaborate bed of doves' down, with striped gold and black satin and linen from Reynes. He would give this gift to obtain the swift and deep sleep that Alcyone did when Juno answered her prayer. The narrator then ... would do the same for him. He sends a plea up to the gods, that he will reward them with the most luxurious gold painted bedchamber, with a bed of the finest down, with covers embroidered with the finest threads of pure gold, if they will help him slee...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce high for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!""- Thomas Parke D"Invilliers From the beginning of time, men have attempted to solve a mystery the answer to which always seems to be just ... ...

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... her legacy. Like a ship lost at sea, Sappho buries herself and her pain in the depths of the mighty deep. However, her works remain and like "lost gems, and wasted gold- they have resurfaced bit by bit to form the treasure trove of a matriarchal literary legacy so sought after by Victorian female authors. Hemans' literary portrait of Sappho reoccurs in Caroline ... ...

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... (Beazley 218). Sandburg then again won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940 and again for poetry in 1951. In 1952, Sandburg won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal. His final award was in 1965. He received the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Award (Vinson 851). Critics had mixed feelings when it came to Sandburg ... ...

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... a hundred eyes" is another decadent image which suggests wealth and beauty and again harks from the book of Solomon. The regal theme is continued with the reference to silver and gold, and "fleurs-de-lys" which were heraldic medieval images. All of these almost historic images and suggestions imply a timeless love which embodies all the qualities of mutual adoration explored and ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Collected Poems', in 1937 for A Further Range', and in 1943 for A Witness Tree'. Frost was named consultant in poetry 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 ... ...

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... absence, it is an affair of the mind which can survive without the sensuous agency of "eyes, lips, and . In a glittering image he describes their unified souls as fine-beaten gold, which increases in value the more it is stretched without breaking to an almost incorporeal "aery . The calm, measured verse form, with its regular rhythms and rhymes, and the precise ... ...

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... countryside which is natural. It also makes the tone at this point sound bitter and critical, conveying his dislike of modern society. The images of 'workmen at dawn' and 'piled gold clouds' reinforce the excessive desire of people in modern society for more than they need. In the next stanza, the lower classes are described as being from 'raw estates', making ... ...

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... Anarchy's servants. They said they were poor and hadn't been in the battlefield for a long time. So, they asked their Lord, Anarchy, to give them glory, a chance to fight and gold. Apart from the army, the church and law were willing to have Anarchy rule over them as well. Thou Art Law and God' (stanza 17) They said they would bow ... ...

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