In Sonnet 73 one will realize Shakespeare follows the classic pattern of the iambic pentameter with a slight variation; the poet utilizes the "spondaic foot" or heavey stress in the beginning of the fourth line in each of the quatrains. ... It is important to note; the poet has changed his focus from aging, to dying, to death and narrowed his scope to the close of one day. In the third and final quatrain the author speaks of a "deathbed" of ashes which maybe interpreted as the ashes of his youth.The same ashes or embers; once the fuel and provider of youthful energy; now ...

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"Frost may be a painter of charming postcard scenes and a front-porch philosopher dispensing consolation and cracker-barrel wisdom, but behind these stereotypes there is in Frost's work a tragic and a terrifying poet, whose deepest note is one of inevitable human isolation" (Literature Online). ... "Frost presents a classic conflict-the decision between the common easy path and the exceptional challenging path" (Choice are never easy). ... The poem The Road Not Taken has been labeled as the classic conflict of life's decisions, however, critics like Jay Parini feel complet...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...

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