We have also read Rich's poem "Living in Sin" which is just the opposite of Marvell's poem. ... The next few words are going to prove that "Living in Sin" is an anti-carpe diem poem. ... "Living in Sin" begins with a women narrator talking about how her life turned out, after seizing the day like Marvell tells you to do in "To His Coy Mistress." ... "To His Coy Mistress" has a friendly, passionate, and loving tone whereas "Living in Sin" has a depressed, bored unenthusiastic tone. ... There are a few things that are similar between the two poems, but if you read the definition ...

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Living in Sin This poem is about the guilt in ones conscious during a marital affair. ... She feels extreme guilt throughout the whole poem as if she wants to stop the relationship but can not seem to tell the "milkman" no. ...

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The sufferings of the two men may be traced in both poems as going through several analogous stages. ... A parallel between the two poems may be drawn here: if we consider the crew of the ship as a family and the Mariner as being the eldest on board, Coleridge's poem presents us with pretty much the same situation - the family virtually dead with only the eldest member still living. ... The Mariner admires the water snakes, swimming in the sea around the ship: "O happy living things! ... The awareness of his love for the rest of the (natural) world brings about his realisation of the sin ...

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Dante, a Christian poet living during a Christian age, sets out to write a poem about his fictionalized version of Hell. ... As his horrors unfold, Dante finds himself faced with his own standards of living. ... Original sin is not "chosen" sin. ... Everyone living has a choice. ... The sin or sins in question seem to be of a universal sort. ...

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Owen's clever choice of words is at its strongest in the very first verse in the way he contrasts the poem's patriotic title to the pathetic and pitiful image given to the soldiers. ... Wilfred then compares the soldier's face to the phrase "devil's sick of sin" which really demonstrates the agony and excruciating pain which the soldier and the onlookers are enduring. ... To emphasise the respect which all human life should be given Owen confronts us throughout his poem with the total disrespect suffered by soldiers under the effects of a gas attack. ... The A...

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He's talking about the myth of The Garden of Eden and the effect Adam and Eve's sin had on it. ... In his poem, Frost says that 'Nature's first green is gold.... While this poem may be short, Robert Frost packs a lot of words into this short poem. Frost gives his apprehension of what sin is like and makes reference to the Garden of Eden to show just how power sin can have over anyone, even the most holy. ... Because the poem has so many references to a higher power, she may be writing as though she's already in heaven, describing it to someone still living. ...

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Inferno (Italian for "hell"), is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem "The Divine Comedy." ... In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. ... The poem starts on Maundy Thursday in the year 1300. ... The ferry is piloted by Charon, who does not want to let Dante enter, for he is a living being. ... These three types of sin also provide the three main divisions of Dante's Hell: Upper Hell (the first 5 Circles) for the self-indulgent sins, Circles 6 and 7 for the violent sins, and Circles 8 and 9 for the malicious s...

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The killing of the Albatross is viewed as a sin and the guilt that the Mariner is now feeling for having put his crew in such awful sailing and living conditions. ... Samuel Coleridge takes the broad ideas of Christian beliefs and relate them to nature in the form of earthly encounters and living animals. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"," takes numerous instances of religious imagery and illustrates them into aspects of nature and living things. ... He alone will live on, in an attempt to make up for his sin against Nature. ... The cycle of sin to punishment to penance is completed and thus ...

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After death our spirit departs from the body and from the present world and moves to another world where all spirits are living. ... They also believe that the soul will find the new body for living through reincarnation. ... The author pointed out that people placed in every of nine circles had different punishments for their sins, as every coming circle was linked with some particular sin. The sins presented in the poem are lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. ... "The Gates of Hell" depicted in the poem are very important, as ...

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The idea throughout the poem of living right, of loyalty, and of being a good leader can all be seen as traits of Christ. ... Grendel is referred to as a descendant of Cain, whom Satan tricks into sinning and committing the first murder. He is the image of a man fallen from grace through sin. ... Grendel is referred to in the poem as "the guardian of sins". ... He hates living in the underworld, cut off from the company of other men. ...

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The idea throughout the poem of living right, of loyalty, and of being a good leader can all be seen as traits of Christ. ... Grendel is referred to as a descendant of Cain, whom Satan tricks into sinning and committing the first murder. He is the image of a man fallen from grace through sin. ... Grendel is referred to in the poem as "the guardian of sins". ... He hates living in the underworld, cut off from the company of other men. ...

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The idea throughout the poem of living right, of loyalty, and of being a good leader can all be seen as traits of Christ. ... Grendel is referred to as a descendant of Cain, whom Satan tricks into sinning and committing the first murder. He is the image of a man fallen from grace through sin. ... Grendel is referred to in the poem as "the guardian of sins". ... He hates living in the underworld, cut off from the company of other men. ...

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Dante's Inferno, is an allegorical poem telling the story of Dante's journey through hell, led by Virgil the Roman poet. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the center of Earth. The arrangement of the poem takes the reader step by step through greater and greater sins. ... Dante is forced to battle his own sin, as well as the sins of those in Hell. ... Entrapped in the forms of trees, rooted forever in a single spot, the suicides basically endure a living death, in which they are helpless against their attackers, the Harpies. ...

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Blake was trying to open people's eyes to the harsh reality to the lives these kids were living. ... Blake new that people did not realize the agony and pain that these boys were living everyday of their lives. ... The color black seems to be very important because it is used to represent sin against innocence, the color of the white snow. ... Blake wrote it so that every one would know had awful of a life these little chimney sweepers were living. ... How miserable of a life the children were living. ...

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The poem reminds us of this many times throughout the poem but there are three main references. ... The unborn child, the poet, would find it worth living for harmony, friendship, non-violence and peace. ... Sinning is another fear that the unborn child has of the world. ... Everybody has sinned, everybody sins and everybody will sin, so the child is asking Christ, who so often taught of forgiveness, to pardon the world's sins. ... These things which are said are therefore lies, which is a sin. ...

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A narrative poem is a poem that tells a story. ... There is not another living creature in sight. ... At this moment, his sin became theirs. ... The mariner's sin is forgiven. ... " This poem stuck out to me because of the exploration of sin against nature and God's creation. ...

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They usually got their ideas of war from war poems, war poems like "Who's For The Game" written by Jessie Pope. ... " These soldiers are living with critical conditions while being forced to fight in a war. ... The purpose of the poem was also to aim the poem to Jessie Pope, telling her that war should not be treated positively. ... But what the soldiers did get in the end was a living nightmare and experiencing the horror of watching someone you know die. ... In the poem, he writes. ...

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I feel that the poem "The world is too much with us" by, William Wordsworth expresses insight on the changing times of the 19th century, as Europe moved from the countryside into industrial cities. Wordsworth opens his poem with the lines, "The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste out powers: / Little we see in nature that is ours;." ... The poem ends as Wordsworth expresses his sorrow for the sin that he has committed and his feelings of wanting nature back. This poem relates to our class discussions and chapter 24 because we have been talking a...

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The discord between religious ideals and sin are paralleled through these texts, and attest to Christianity's influence in the literary Gothic. ... In religious literature, temptation is often seen as the ultimate transgression of faith, the revival of original sin. ... This is achieved through the use of enticing long adjectives such as 'languorous' and 'voluptuous', as well as the salient oxymoron 'diabolically sweet', emphasizing her hypnotic pull on the living. ... Here she appears to represent temptation, as in the origin of sin, where Adam and Eve ar...

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His allegorical poem describes a hierarchy of evil. ... Similarly, each sin had its own logical punishment,! ... Throughout the poem, Virgil uses logic and reason to convince the monsters to allow him to gain passage to the various circles of Hell. ... He informs them as to what is happening in the land of the living. ... Plato's purpose is to discuss human ignorance, while Dante is exploring human sins. ...

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We know that it is still the same wedding guest through the whole poem. ... This part of the poem is pervaded by imagery of the bright white colour and the moon. ... There is also mentioned a "fire element " in the poem. ... We can see this as the point that separates man from nature just like the first sin in Eden had separated man from God. ... Through his story, the Mariner teaches others to respect other living creatures and to be a  part of the environment that is around us. ...

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In the poem, The Flea, John Donne demonstrates grief, shame, anxiety and pain with the touch of his pen. ... The poem begins with: "Mark but this flea, and Mark in this How little that which thou deny'st me is; It sucked me first, and Now sucked thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be; Thou know'st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead." ... This fertilized egg is not a sin, this egg is not shame, this egg is not made out of the loss of her virginity, but out of love for each other. ... This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed, an...

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Their belief of original sin was that Eve led Adam to sin, and that sin tainted all of mankind. ... He finishes this section with a warning: excessive wealth will lead people away from God and toward the sin of pride and its social ramification. ... Michael Wigglesworth's poem titled The Day of Doom is another literary piece that sheds light on the religious morals and values that the Puritans maintained. ... The poem narrates the events of the Second Coming of Christ, the Last Judgment of the living and dead souls, and the departure of the saved for heaven and the damned for hell. ... Ma...

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(V, 1842-6) When liminally translated, this passage says to love him who, out of true love, died upon a cross and rose and sits in heaven; for he will not deceive any living creature who on him lays all his heart. ... In the above example, Jesus Christ will not "falsen- any living creature who trusts in him. ... This is an extremely powerful position as it is the final thought we read, and it tends to stay in our minds longer than does the rest of the poem. ... When reading the poem, one may wonder why Chaucer even bothers putting these last six stanzas in the poem. ... So why would Chau...

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War Never Changes There are many strong parallels between the poem, "Dulce Et Decorum Est", and the present-day situation with Iraq. ... This heartrending poem depicts a soldier's first-hand experience of the atrocious events that occur in war. ... Wilfred Owen was so appalled by some of his experiences in war that he exclaims in his poem that "a devil's sick of sin" (l. 20). ... If chemical warfare became the main artillery of war, then the world would be doomed to destruction as harmful gasses and chemicals would fill the air and ground, contaminating every living organism....

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