So personification is used in the poems "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson and "Death, be not proud" by John Donne, to help express a peaceful and sarcastic tone that is used. ... "Because I could not stop for Death" was composed in 1863. ... Back to two centuries prior to Emily Dickinson in "Because I could not stop for Death" and John Donne in "Death, be not proud" additionally utilizes an alternate sort of personification. ... The two poets in their work look in, out and all around using human characters for "death" representation in their work "Because I could not sto...

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In the poem, the speaker talks about Death and claims that Death should not feel too proud because it is not as "mighty" as many claim it to be. In actuality Death doesn't kill anyone. The speaker explains that rest and sleep are all copies of Death; therefore, Death is just as pleasurable and needed as the above. In addition, Death is also subjugated to things like poison and war. ... In addition, only those who haven't had a fulfilling life should fear death while those who have had a fulfilling life only look at death as the next step. ...

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The structure of Aunt Jennifer's Tigers consists of the first stanza, which is about the proud tigers, the second stanza, which is about terrified Aunt Jennifer, and the third stanza, which refers first to Aunt Jennifer and then to the tigers. ... The idea of death is explored at the beginning of the third stanza in showing that even Aunt Jennifer's death will not bring closure nor change to her role in a patriarchal society. ... This is reflected in the line, "Find even the ivory needle hard to pull- (6), in which Rich is presenting the reader with the consequences of living as ...

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The ship is docked and safe, and those both on and off the vessel are proud. ... The one loyal sailor laments the death of his captain in words of his own. ... This poem is an elegy, because it mourns the death of the captain. ... Lincoln (Captain) did not live long enough to celebrate the Union's (vessel's) victory following the voyage (Civil War). The message Whitman brings about in the elegy is his grievance for the death of Lincoln. ...

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The use of the word manners here attempts to imply that his behavior was learnt, but he actually seems to be proud of the fact that he does not worry about what he eats, the way he violently rips up his prey, before consuming it. ... "The sun is behind me" suggests an image of the setting sun; a setting sun which portrays death; a death that will take place if he decides to get out of the tree. ... The first word in the poem; "I", is repeated throughout the poem, emphasizes the hawk's proud attitude. ... It makes us imagine an encounter of pantheistic death and resurrection. "What a lif...

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The poem describes the fatigue, blindness, death, sufferings, and horrors of war. It shows the everlasting painful conditions of a soldier "bent double", "trudging" through mud with bloody feet and blind eyes, cautious to every second, aware of the death beyond death. ... Starting off with the line, "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks," tells us how the glorious uniforms of the proud soldiers turned into dirty, torn up sacks similar to the ones a beggar wear. ... The poems written details of the emotions, thoughts and sights of the soldier may not be as precise for the reader as Owen&#x...

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For a person to not being able to breath near her father shows that her father was a strict being and she was not allowed to do anything that wasn't her father's command. ... " This is all imagery to show the audience how her father was a proud German soldier. "Daddy I have had to kill you" the sadness that she felt after her father's death was overbearing, and that line is to show her father that she no longer needs him as she did when she was younger. ... She ends the poem with "I'm through" because she could not continue to feel the anger and pai...

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If he would not have used them as he did, the poem would not have as strong of an impact on the reader as it has now. ... For the speaker of this poem though to describe his son as his best work ever is extremely powerful and it shows how proud and how much love the father felt for his son. ... The controlling image in On My First Son is death and grief. Death rings out through the entire poem. ... The dramatic situation used in this poem is the death of a son. ...

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A dramatic monologue is a poem with a speaker, who is not the poet himself. ... As he continues, it becomes clear to both the audience and the reader that the Duke had commanded the Duchess" death. ... He, however, does not respond. He "looked up at her Happy and proud; as last [he] knew Porphyria worshipped [him]." ... All of this is done, while the speaker remarks that "God has not said a word", meaning God has not yet punished him. ...

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It is not a struggle between fish and fisher, instead a wrestling of her judgments to keep the fish or release him. ... The reflection of "ancient wall-paper" turns you to think of your old house and the 70's wall-paper that tarnished the walls and her use of "full-blown roses" makes you want to think of the rose's stage prior to death. ... His eyes do not shift towards us rather they shift towards the light, the fish has given up, he has left himself in our hands. ... To her these fishing lines are "medals" that are worn as proud as an American war veteran would wear his. ...

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This is a standard issue in society today; whether free will exists or whether we live in a trapped world where we can not do what we want to in destiny or where we can't do something whether we put our minds to it or not. ... said Ernest, running, I fell just as she gored me to my death." ... Whether this person was real or not I believe Masters does not believe in free will because if he did then he would not have included a poem like this or a poem that ends in a death with such a strong comment during the death of Roger. ... It may have been a simple wish but it is one tha...

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Who is Paul Laurence Dunbar Why he is the man Dayton, Ohio proudly claims as a native son! ... Growing up in a poor environment did not stop this ambitious child, who began to write at age six. ... He might not have made it this far if it wasn't for those great individuals. ... There he died and his mother remained until her death in 1934. ... Two years after Matilda's death the Ohio Legislature dedicated the house as a memorial to Paul Laurence Dunbar (Sci). ...

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He quickly introduces the theme of death and compares the dead leaves to "ghosts" (3). ... The important word is "seeds" for it shows that even in death, new life will grow out of the "grave." ... Thus, implying that the power has to stay within people in order for death to become a "dying flame-. ... At one point he cries out to God to reveal himself, saying "I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed [religion]; I was not heard "I saw them [the dead] not-. ... The king believed his kingdom would remain under his statue's proud watch forever, but instead it wasted away...

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Anne Bradstreet was America's first real poet, but she is not only a poet she is an author. ... Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Dudley were the proud parents of Anne, who was born in 1612. ... Anne could not believe what the New World was like, she felt like "God has deserted them." ... Anne became very close to God over the years not only because of her sicknesses but the other trails her family faced. ... He son Simon "asked his mother to leave him a greater inheritance than wealth at her death, indication that he wished her to draw together all the good advice she had given him as a chi...

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Furthermore the unnamed 'squash(es) a fly' by using his 'thumb', which indicates to the reader the unnamed brutally murders the fly and not caring how to kills it with but his thumb. ... Consequently, the usage of opinion presented the reader how the anonymous had considered about his crime and how proud he was towards it. ... Likewise, the unnamed is believed to have purloins items of no use, it states that he had steals 'a guitar and thought' he 'might learn to play' this suggests to the reader that the unnamed does not have an objective when he is...

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In this poem the act of crossing suggested a passage from life to death and back to life, and the passage from poet to reader via the medium (transportation) of poetry. ... In the section where the child asks the speaker what grass is, he proceeds to explain his symbolism of the grass that utilizes themes of nature (nature's cycles of rebirth and regeneration), a theme of unity and the democracy that runs the country (grass grows everywhere and links everyone's yards together as a whole), and a symbol of death or mortality (grass grows from the ground fertilized by the dead soldiers...

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