The turning of the seasons, a wooded area, and other things common in nature, were also common in Frosts poems. ... Woods are common images of darkness or mystery; they have a sense of the unknown in them. ... Lakes are common images of life. ... Frost chose something so common in all of us to convey his poems with. ... They both can change rapidly; have ups and downs, seasons in a sense. ...
August Wilson's Fences gives the readers a combination of poet's ear for language with a healthy sense of humor, it almost gives a sure sense for funny dramatic occasions, and a loving commitment to a excellent subject. ... Last August Wilson contributes humor and common sense that are played with tremendous impact. ...
The children are certainly the poor in both the economic sense and the spiritual sense. ... Burns shows his compassion for the common people by telling the stories of these people in a gently and highly descriptive way. ... By placing this tail within a story that seems common helps me to believe that he is sympathetic. "The Mouse" is yet another scene of common. ... Taking the time to consider the importance of such a small common creature is what makes the poem intriguing. ...
Dante's poetic side and adoration for an epic love, clouds his sense of reason. ... Dante's sense of sympathy and kindness towards the shades harshens as he travels further into hell. ... Dante's story represents not only his own life but also what Dante the Poet alleged to be the common Christian quest for God....
This is done by means of connotations and imagery inherent within the landscape; therefore, utilizing these concepts to create an alien, but common internality. ... It is almost as if there is a sense of influence or manipulation by MacEwen such as how she guides the reader, with the "you," along a path she chooses. ... Indeed, the addition of "dark pines" solidifies the whole idea of a dark sense or theme because they are usually symbolically positive or bright. ...
All of a sudden at the age of nineteen they decided to in a sense "cut me off." ... They knew that at times it would be a great struggle to try and make ends meet, but they also knew that this would in a sense turn me into a man. ... To the common person a starling is just a common bird, but in that room, for a helpless hour, it became a "sleek, wild, dark, and iridescent creature." ... Both in a sense, needed to fly, to "clear the window sill of the world." ...
In the second quatrain, the persona speaks of each of his senses being displeased by his lover-- "Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted, Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, Nor taste, nor smell - None of the persona's senses are pleased-- not by the sound of her voice, or her "taste- and "smell,"" or is she stimulating his sense of touch. ... In reality, not every person is the apple of perfection, and this quatrain gives the reader a sense of earthly and more practical qualities. ... In lines 1-2 "But my five wits nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish hea...
Owen also uses a common and modern diction in this poem. ... The poet gives the readers a sense of extreme urgency by stating: "Gas! ... As readers advance further, the caesuras between lines thirteen and sixteen of the end of second stanza serves to enter another type of rhythm, evoking a sense of the bewilderment of the battle, and this is where the transition takes place. ... There is no signs glory left through the lines of the poem, but rather a sense of despair and loss. ...
These lines compare love and songs, which both have in common in some ways and also have their differences. 1Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I 2effuse unreturn'd love, 3But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is 4certain one way or another, 5(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not 6return'd, 7Yet out of that I have written these songs.) 1This line of the poem is trying to tell people that love doesn't always bring love and happiness but it can also bring fear in people that they could have between the bo...
The poem "To Be of Use" is about Marge Piercey's need to surround herself with people who work hard at everything they do. People who work together for a common goal, but cry out for work that's real. When I first read this piece, it made sense to me, but I could tell there was a hidden meani...
It's a poem that evokes a sense of hopelessness within society, assuring his fellow men that they will get lost in it or be defeated by it: His overall pessimistic claim being that our world is corrupt. ... Without intelligence and common sense the "stuffed men" are basically helpless men tied to their posts. ... Only through broken lines can the "hollow men" access this common prayer. ...
There is a strong sense of regret before the choice is even made and it lies in the knowledge that in one lifetime, it is impossible to travel down every path. ... This is his common sense speaking and acknowledging that what he chooses now, will affect every other choice he makes afterward. ...
The reader can sense the sarcasm in these lines. ... Despite commonalities such as this, the narrator says his page "will not be white" (Hughes). ... The common theme between them, however, is the significance of appearances and their level of accuracy in representing the entities behind them. ...
The ambulance, racing to the rescue of the crash victims, relays the sense of rush and emergency to the audience. ... The witnesses illustrate the most common reactions to disaster. ... In this poem, Shapiro has recognized certain reaction patterns of society and pieced them all together, along with the most common societal horror: an auto wreck. ...
Imagery of a Horrible Occurrence As I grew up my parents used to tell me that everything happens for a reason. Intern, I thought to myself, what about all of the horrible things that happen? I soon realized that even though a bad event may occur it still does happen for a reason. Sometimes th...
Micheal Macklem writes that Housman's devotion toward classics has been thought of as an unfortunate digression from his poetry. Edmund Wilson tried to find a relationship between the poetry and classical scholarship of Housman, but came to a conclusion that the scholarship in Housman's poetry sho...
Imagery of a Horrible Occurrence As I grew up my parents used to tell me that everything happens for a reason. Intern, I thought to myself, what about all of the horrible things that happen? I soon realized that even though a bad event may occur it still does happen for a reason. Sometimes th...
In the next stanza, the lower classes are described as being from 'raw estates', making them appear common and their lives sound basic. ... In contrast to the other stanzas which all have a sense of movement, this word is definite and brings the motion in the poem to a halt. This suggests that Larkin feels a strong sense of content in the natural world. ... From this point there is a sense of change and ageing in the poem. ... The women are searching for answers to cure their sense of something being missing in their lives. ...
What do John Keats, Ghalib, and Charles Baudelaire have in common? ... Although most people think that works from the Romanticism movement are about love, they will quickly discover that many of the poems contain a sense of melancholy and sadness, with references to nature. ... This gives the sense that everyone is part of nature and Mother Nature has given us the gift of life. ... Like "A Carrion", a sense of melancholy that is consistent with Romanticism is conveyed in the Ghazals of Ghalib. ... Much like Ghazal V, Ghazal XII also displays a sense of sadness and yearning. ...
Thomas tries to make us, as adults, feel as he feels - he knows that all adults share one common experience at least - we were all once children, so that:- we were all once delighted - none of us, as children, ever valued those fleeting pleasures within a greater whole - we are all nostalgic for something, someone or somewhere. ... Six nine-line regular stanzas contain assonance rhyme schemes (abcddabcd) so subtle that one is almost unaware of being gently manipulated into such a subliminal sense of order. ... And "as" implying either "when" or "because" - I much prefer the sense of "becau...
This produces a sense of deliriousness, as the soldiers are "Drunk with fatigue." ... It creates a strong sense of intimacy between the responder and the poem and allows the responder to visualise what is in the dreams. ... It has also conveyed other key ideas relating to war being a misrepresentation, the desperation of soldiers in war and how the reality of war differs from its common facade. Owen has portrayed these concepts through his painfully direct language, which combines gritty realism with an aching sense of compassion for the soldiers....
In his poem "Theogony", which he wrote in the 600's BC, he put some meaning to Greek mythology in a philosophical sense. ... Sophocles is most famous for his characterization, graceful language, and sense of calm and proportion. ... Most citizens of a city-state claimed a common ancestry, followed the same customs and religious practices and spoke the same Greek dialect. A city-state gave its members a sense of belonging because they were like one large family. ...
Discuss Representations of Love In One or More Poems Read in Class Many different poets throughout history have represented love, perhaps the most common subject matter chosen in poetry, in many different ways, and many of these ideas certainly do not conform to what the current generation would consider love', mostly due to the advent of sexual equality and equal rights. The poem To his Coy Mistress' written by Andrew Marvell is a perfect example of this, and clearly shows the opinion of love from his time period, although it is not possible to tell if it was the most common ...
This commonplace simile, combined with the diction of 'black shoe; and 'poor and white' contributes to sense of suffocation in the poems opening stanza. ... In this sense, a further tenet of feminist thought is consider in Plath's work. ... Plath's repetitive use of the accusative possessive pronoun 'your' in this stanza further contributes to a sense of masculine ownership, the infantilising diction of 'baby' adding emphasis to the complex of suppression in Plath's female speaker. ... Her use of the familiar contrast of God and Lucifer al...
