... beauty that exists inside its harsh reality. Service writes this poem in a style similar to that of a resident of the Yukon in the time of the gold rush. Although some of his language is far from ordinary, the style in which he writes is very common. He does not hesitate to use coarse language, ... clearly. The story that the poem tells is of true love for the Yukon. Service begins by telling us that he spent most of his youth in the gold rush. After he returned home, he realized that, even with a new fortune, his old life lacked what he wanted. "Yet somehow life's not what I ... thoug...

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... by death. In the second stanza the speaker furthers his comparison for a peaceful separation. "So let us melt, and make no noise- refers to the melting of gold by a goldsmith or alchemist (5). When gold is melted it does not sputter and is therefore quiet. The speaker and his love should not display their private, intimate love as "tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests ... mind- (19). The speaker and his lady are connected at the soul and are therefore not really separated. In the sixth stanza, Donne again compares love to gold. Pure gold can be beaten into layer of thinnest gold leaf that str...

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... is lead to except the fact that the bird just exists in the palm tree, in space. In the first line of the second stanza, the bird is described as "gold feathered." The significance of a golden bird could symbolize one's soul, or inner spirit. On the other hand, the bird could be completely outside of us. Its existence is an occurrence ... that we have no control over. Gold is a precious metal, which could signify life, importance, purity, or something desired. The fact that the bird is gold could signify that the bird's existence is something that the reader could desire. In the second ...

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Robert Frost, an inspiring poet, which was once, renamed the "gold gray poet." Frost was an amusing character in his years. He thought that charm and amusement was something that writers needed to have. Frost quotes, "to be at all charming ... 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 literature. (Robert, 2) Despite the uplifting essence of Frost's work, his life wasn't all sunshine and ca...

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... , he can endure the physical absence of his lover. "Our two souls, therefore, which are one/ Though I must go, endure not yet/ A breach, but an expansion/ Like gold to airy thinness beat."" In the last line of stanza 6, Donne compares his love to gold. Unlike the laity, his love is never separated - they do not snap apart, they simply stretch out, like ... gold, but remain one. Donne uses a compass as a metaphor in stanza 7. It is the perfect image to encapsulate the values of his spiritual love, which is balanced, symmetrical, intellectual, serious, and ... ...

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... that its more than just labor. Frost is saying that the truth of hard labor is very satisfying. "Or easy gold at the hand of fay (fairy) or elf:/ Anything more than the truth would have seemed to weak." He doesn't need gold form fictitious elves or fairies, the rewards of hard labor are enough. But also in a way he is helping ... sun, Something perhaps, about the lack of sound-- 5 And that was why it whispered and did not speak. It was not dream of the gift of idle hours, Or easy gold at the hand of fay or elf: Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak To the earnest love ...

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... a number of images to capture the positive and negative traits of pike. He uses adjectives such as 'perfect', 'grandeur' 'gold' and 'delicacy' to convey the pike's beauty, majesty and fragility. The words 'grandeur' and 'gold' seem to illustrate Hughes' admiration for a creature that looks regal and valuable. He juxtaposes these images with the words 'malevolent ... ...

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... root of all evil" and brings sorrow as well as joy. Literally, the power of the subject's gaze is to leave objects as if transfigured from base matter into gold; this transformative power recalls the Greek myth of King Midas, who was blessed by the god Dionysus with the gift of turning all he touched into ... gold, yet regretted this decision once he accidentally transformed his daughter. Like Midas, the subject's station of power over others (financially, politically, physically, emotionally) is graciously bestowed by the Powers That ... ...

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... something being beautiful and fitting. He continues on to talk about certain features of a typical summer day. "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines and often is his gold complexion dimmed;" (Shakespeare). This quote explains how nature is not always perfect by saying the sun is sometimes too hot and often times the clouds cover to sky causing ... that gold complexion to be dimmed. He later explains that this person beauty will never go away, characterized as them being an "eternal summer" (Shakespeare). Love is being expressed by ... ...

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... to short by saying, "And summer's lease hath too short a date." In the summer days, the sun, "the eye of heaven" (Line 5), often shines "too hot," or too dim, "his gold complexion dimmed" (Line 6), that is there are many hot days during the summer but soon the sun begins to set earlier at night because autumn is approaching. Summer is moving ... always mild and temperate by her nature and nothing at all like the summer. It is incidentally brought to life as being described as the "eye of heaven" with its "gold complexion". The imagery throughout the sonnet is simple and attainable to th...

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... grasses and mosses. They have to be polished as if made of green brass. The rivers and little streams with their hidden cresses and pale-coloured pebbles and their fool's gold must be washed and starched or shined into brightness, the sheets of lake water smoothed with the hand and the foam of the oceans pressed into neatness. It has to ... keep on shining within and above and the hands keep on moving. It has to be made bright, the skin of this planet till it shines in the sun like gold leaf. Archangels then will attend to its metals and polish the rods of its rain. Seraphim will stop s...

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... her husband is the best. In lines 5 through 7, the reader is given an image, called a hyperbole, to describe her love. She says "I prize my love more than whole mines of gold Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench." At this time in history, British Adventurers had not given up hope that ... to tell him that no amount of money could be exchanged for the love she feels for him and it cannot be destroyed even with the waters of a river. However, gold and riches should be of little value to her because they are not a necessity or desire of true ...

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... and husband is also stressed in her lyric poetry. For example, Bradstreet states, " I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold" ("Husband"5). Bradstreet means that her love for her husband is worth more than any materialistic thing, such as gold. She also says," My love is such that rivers cannot quench" ("Husband"7). This statement shows the reader that her love for ... ...

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... handful" (l. 12). The fourth stanza of this poem brings a sense of completion, as the thatcher puts the final touches to his work. He seems content with his creation, thinking it gold and beautiful as a "honeycomb" (l. 15). Indeed, the last line of the poem shows pride and awe on the thatcher's behalf. He imagines the people's astonishment for they will be left ... "gaping" (l. 16) at his work's perfection. Heaney compares him to Midas - creator of beautiful things, whose touch turned everything to gold. Through this comparison of a simple man to a being with supernatural powers, the re...

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... journey, "From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere; / And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, / And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold" (10-12). It is as if the gold is inconsequential, they don't care about money; they care only about having a good time. This is a lyrical poem filled with alliteration: bare, bright, smelled, stable; looked, leaned ... ...

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... "bodily form from any natural thing," but rather he says, in an allusion to "Grecian goldsmiths," that he will fashion himself as a bird made of gold forged by these craftsmen. The repetition of the word "gold" is used to highlight the supremacy of Yeats" chosen form. With the removal of his imperfect physical body he is now bonded to a golden bird, and ... ...

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... also the risk in hoping anything at all, it leaves the choice, like to Wolsey in Henry VIII, "Never to hope again." A third example of Synecdoche is Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay." In this poem the reader initially focuses on the basic idea of the poem, the obvious picture frost is trying to paint. It portrays the change of things ... with which all things in life lose their wonder. As said in the 6th line of the poem, "So Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay." Another one of Frost's incredible abilities as a writer is to describe the scenery and the...

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... something. For Gordy this is the dead body of his brother and for the knight it is to find the city of Eldorado, a city believed to be full of hidden gold. Both these journeys span from childhood to adulthood, which can be defined as a bildungsroman. Stand By Me begins with an extreme long shot of a middle aged man called Gordy, who ... ...

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... he talks about his sleep, and whether he will hibernate, or have a, "human sleep." The theme of death by the seasons can also be seen in, "Nothing Gold Can Stay," In the poem when it says, "Nature's first green," it is symbolic of childhood, which we cannot hold on to forever. Later it reads, " ... ...

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... is really figuratively comparing the culprits of this mistreatment to animals. There are many other examples of figurative imagery in this poem such as comparing "Oil Wells" (7), "Gold" (19) and "Diamonds" to these women and slaves. This use of imagery is used because all of these minerals are now valued higher then they were in ... ...

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... praising her because of the fact that she is one of a kind. "Shakespeare refuses to compare his mistress to the sun, to coral, to white snow, or to the fine gold thread ("wires") used in Elizabethan jewelry. In doing so, he question the use of metaphor and simile use in poetry, because they untruthfully and dishonestly glorify other women [ ] the dark ... ...

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... colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943. In 1960, Congress voted Frost a gold medal "in recognition of his poetry, which has enriched the culture of the United States and the philosophy of the world." Frost's public career reached a climax in 1961, when he ... ...

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... mighty crush the weak I am the young man, full of strength and hope, Tangled in the ancient endless chain Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land! Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need! Of work the men! Of take the pay! Of owning everything for one's own greed! I feel that this is a representative sample of the ... ...

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... the beloved; summer tends to unpleasant extremes of windiness and heat, but the beloved is always mild and "more temperate." Summer is personified as the "eye of heaven" with its "gold complexion." The love that is spoken about is compared to everlasting nature. By doing this, the speaker is, at the same time, trying to preserve the beauty of his love ... ...

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... published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926. He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania three years later. In 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon gold medal for literature. Hughes wrote in many genres, but he is best known for his poetry in which he disregarded classical forms in favor of musical rhythms. In the 1920s ... ...

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