in notes of woe!" While searching for more information regarding the child laborers of this time I found several notes that the word "weep" may have actually been the word "sweep" - a result of a Cockney lisp which dropped the "s." ... The children are certainly the poor in both the economic sense and the spiritual sense. ... 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. ...

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He notes the despair of "every" Londoner and their oppression by the "church" and the state. ... The 'mind-forged manacles' represent the disturbing sounds of clanking metal chains which were common during this time period. ... The metaphorical usage throughout the poem gives the reader a sense of what London was like in the 1700's....

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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. ...

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From the start of the first quatrain, the persona declares his lover unappealing-- "In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note - (Lines 1-2) The beginning line is rather deceitful because Shakespeare's pattern from previous sonnets continues with either an explanation of the persona's blind love that goes beyond physical beauty or the persona's love which withstands the test of time and aging beauty; however the second line unexpectedly continues by the persona stating that his lover has "a thousand- faults. ... In the second quatrain, ...

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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. ... "Now" implies the immediacy of the reversion of the poet back to childhood - in ...

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The ambulance, racing to the rescue of the crash victims, relays the sense of rush and emergency to the audience. ... He depicts one police officer making notes, one cleaning blood, and one hanging lights on the wrecked sheet metal that was once a recognizable automobile. ... 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. ...

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The rope may also stand as a metaphor for suicide frustration, as it is common for one to commit suicide by hanging themselves by a rope. ... The poem contains many images pertaining to the senses, most particularly the sense of touch. ... The poet uses light and romantic colors which appeal to the readers sense of sight including the colors yellow, red, blush and white. ... When the maid notes at the end that she burns in the absence of the pearls that stay in her mistress' room, she may be hinting towards the fact that she actually burns to be in the bedroom with her mistress as well. W...

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The poem begins on a depressing note, "Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, this lime-tree bower my prison!... "So my Friend struck with weep joy may stand, as I have stood silent with swimming sense; yeah, gazing round on the wide landscape, gaze till all doth seem less gross than bodily; and of such hues as veil the Almighty Spirit" (p. 808, line 37-39). ... Whitman blends reminiscence with a sense of purpose in the poem as well, basically ennobling it, again reflecting Romantic influence. ... Hence, the Romantic aspects in Crossing Brooklyn Ferry include an idealizat...

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Generally, imagery includes all kinds of sense perception (not just visual pictures). ... Note that the connection between sound and pronunciation is sometimes rather a product of imagination and also that written language retains an aural quality, so that even unspoken your writing has a sound to it. ... The most common metric unit is the iambic foot, in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one. ... A line with five feet is called pentameter; thus, a line of five iambs is known as "iambic pentameter" (the most common metrical form in English poetry). ... A drama may co...

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However, he also notes that nature is indifferent to his needs and therefore his desire is unobtainable. ... In the next stanza, the lower classes are described as being from 'raw estates', making them appear common and their lives sound basic. ... 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. ...

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The reader must note that the poet who wrote "Cousin Kate" was a wealthy lady, and so could not have encountered the situation in her poem, whereas the poet for "The Seduction" could quite easily have experienced a teenage pregnancy. ... Neither of the poems tell us the name of the narrator, which could be to increase the sense of privacy or shame. ... Also the way the neighbours react to a pregnancy out of wedlock, nowadays this is quite common. ... The expression "little slag" used in "The Seduction" is also very common for its era, whereas the curse words in the era of "Cousin Kate" would...

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If that sounds familiar to you, that's probably because it's the most common meter in English poetry. ... Small substitutions like this are fairly common in poetry, so just be on the lookout for any metrical oddities. ... There are in fact many different types of sonnets, but the two most common are the Petrarchan sonnet (named after the famous Italian sonneteer Francesco Petrarca) and the Shakespearean (or English) sonnet. ... There are a few things to note about this guy, since he's pretty revealing in the way he goes about this poem. ...

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It was a must to note that language is a human creation contained cultural heritages of linguistic group. ... Literature "organized violence committed on ordinary speech" (Eagleton) While the definition of literature has been widely disputed throughout history, British literary theorist, Terrence Eagleton, attempts to make sense of it all during the introduction of his 1983 book, What is Literature. He described literature as, "imaginative writing in the sense of fiction" (Eagleton 1). If one then believes that 'writing in the sense of fiction' is the meaning of literatur...

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The sense of 'local' community was being lost. ... What went out was narrative, description, rational exposition; what emerged focused on stream of consciousness, images in poetry (rather than description or narration), a new use of universal myth, and a sense of fragmentation both of individuality and of such concepts as space and time. ... The language mix reflects a sense that there is no longer a fixed language of poetry just as there is no longer one English. ...

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Both Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth conceived a new style of poetry in which nature and diction of the common man outplayed formal, stylized writing. ... Along with the setting he wanted you to feel this breeze rub against your skin which creates a sense of peace and tranquility that this sight brought to your inner soul .Several contributing factors that inspired William Wordsworth to write poetry throughout his life were brilliant poetry writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Milton, English poets, Robert Burns, a Scottish poet, Walter Scott, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edwund S...

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He believed that we all share a common bond through the "life source," a primeval force that defined the world: Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed Earth! ... (Song, p. 4) Note that this connection is simply made through lying in the grass and listening to ambient sounds, not through forcing song or voice to fill what isn't really empty in the first place. ...

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