Leaves fallen from an autumn tree It's cold, I"m wet and my clothes are so covered in lice that I can feel them crawling through my pale skin. ... I rarely fall into a deep sleep, into a world where I can forget all my problems. ... As we had crawled through the thick mist the rain had started to fall. ... Hundreds of bodies were scattered around me like leaves fallen from an autumn tree. ... Like one of the leaves, fallen from an autumn tree. ...

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The season fall becomes the sonnets most general metaphor in respect to the addressers aging body in the first quatrain of sonnet 73. ... Shakespeare concludes the explanation of the leaves which were hange/ Upon those boughs which shake against the could (2-3). ... The metaphor moves from the immobile, ordinary leaves to some boughs, and distinct leaves, which shakes against the cold and to counter off the approaching death with their best. ... Yet the speakers growing inactivity in the matter escalates the paradoxical theme of down-falling imagery with rousing lyrical feeling. Line 8 undoubt...

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In the winter many trees lose all of their leaves and appear very bare and open. ... During the summer the tress are generally full of green leaves and bear fruit. In the fall the leaves begin to change colors and fall off of the limbs. ... Then Fall comes and the trees begin to lose their leaves and prepare for the winter, as beautiful as the dying leaves may be, they are still dying and thus a tragedy is occurring. ...

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But to reach a higher place in life some must fall and experience the low. ... They begin to fall in love again in the fair weather when the sun comes out. ... George Wilson kills himself and Gatsby when summer turn to fall. Making the comparison between fall when flowers die and leaves begin to fall, and the fall of Gatsby and the death of his dreams of fulfilling maximum wealth. And it continues to fall like the leaves from there. ...

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Even though all these little things help, they do not help to the point to help a woman out of poverty or fall into poverty. ... The father is most likely not to help the mother and the children after he leaves the family. ... So instead of staying around and trying to manage the situation at hand, the father then leaves his family all alone. ... Most of the time the father leaves because he has lost his job and at times the family is already in poverty before the father leaves. In other instances, when the father leaves his family, he does not share any of his income with his family. ...

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.), he conceived the plan for Ann and Steven to fall in love. ... Ann falling in love with Steven is not an accident, but instead, a part of John's plan. ... She ends up falling asleep and having a bad dream that John had caught them and is choking her. ... John has not been paying much attention to Ann and he leaves her alone in their house with Steven. ... As a result, the short story usually leaves a great deal of its content open to interpretation and examination by the reader. ...

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(This cycle calls to mind the myth of Sisyphus, a story of a man condemned to eternally roll a large stone up a mountain, only to have it fall back over him and roll to the bottom each time.) ... The passage reveals the stunning reality of the hunchback, as this "woman figure" is his nighttime companion (whether figurative or literal, Thomas leaves open to interpretation) and his only friend. ... However, even though Thomas hints at the hunchback's nighttime relief as an artist, overall the poem itself leaves the reader distraught. Thomas clearly does not attempt to restore order or co...

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Instead of thinking of my favorite seasons, the beautiful fall. Leaves, cool tempertures, Halloween, sports, school, my birthday, and Christmas coming. ... Thinking of all good things the fall had to offer. ... That there was enough tears falling from eyes of everyones soul. ... I can now see and sense the beauty of the leaves dying and falling from a tree . ...

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However, in the first stanza the poet says that young men will always fall in love because of her physical beauty. ... Often, a young boy or girl will easily fall in love and easily fall out of love. ... The following poem offers some words of wisdom about falling in love too early. Down by the Salley Gardens Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet; She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I being young and foolish, with her would not agree. ... "She bid me take life easy, as the leaves grows on...

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Animals visit the emergent layer to munch on the leaves, fruits, and seeds that grkow there, to escape predators, or even just to sunbathe. ... They get their nourisment from dead leaves and animals that fall from above, get caught in their roots, and decay. ... Some bromeliads have what look like small cups surrounded by leaves. The cups catch rainwater and falling bits of plants, insects, and other forest litter. ... The dense leaves and branches of the trees overlap with the vines, epiphytes, ferns, and other plants to form a thick roof. ...

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"Blow" suggests something light and unwanted such as litter or perhaps it is when the leaves die and fall of the trees and blow away, leaves fall off in the autumn, and it suggests the town is out of its season. ...

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Though from the first mention of Lancelot and Guinevere's affair in Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Idylls of the King King Arthur's court is sown with seeds of budding darkness, the fall of the court begins in earnest through the catalyst of the deceitful and manipulative Vivien who, though she but briefly appears in the chronicle, irrevocably alters it. ... Ev'n such a wave, but not so pleasurable, Dark in the glass of some presageful mood, Had I for three days seen, ready to fall. ... Just as Merlin's power subsides to give way to Vivien's power, so her power fad...

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Frodo Baggins first displays the process of the quest when he leaves his home in the shire. ... They begin to fight and Gandolf manages to destroy the bridge causing the Balrog to fall to his death but while the others are able to run to safety Gandolf falls to his doom along with the Balrog. ... The second stage of the quest specifies that the hero, his foe, or both must die and in this case they both fall to their death. ... They keep along their route and they reach Lothlorien, which has a certain feeling of goodness that it leaves upon all that visit it...

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This is where he actually begins to fall in love with her. Henry fully recovers and returns to the war-front where the Italians start to fall apart. ... After a while he leaves the hospital and walks back to the hotel in the rain. ... Hemingway uses rain in the scene when Henry leaves the train station to go back to war. It rains hard the entire night that Henry leaves: "Outside the mist turned to rain and in a little while it was raining hard. ...

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Also tobacco according to the dictionary is a tropical American plant widely wanted for its leaves which is used in many various ways and used in the mouth to chew or smoked. ... There was a certain fruit with it and the Americans ate the fruit and threw the leaves away not knowing what it was. In the early sixteenth century sailors would go on voyages and drop the leaves to plant them and there would be many tobacco leave growing in Europe. ... Your teeth will turn yellow and rot and which usually fall out. ...

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When she is playing chess, the "art of invisible strength" means to stay quiet and act innocent which leaves her opponents thinking that she is just a kid who will not know their plays, and will not know how to react. ... Ted begins to see her as dull, and shows her the big separation between them, and he leaves for a business trip in Los Angeles. ... She sees him about to fall in, but she chooses not to do anything. ... Suyuan then leaves her sitting on the piano bench, slack-jawed and looking totally stunned. ...

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The Catcher in the Rye is the story of Holden Caulfield's fall into depression. ... Without his sister Phoebe, he would have kept falling until he hit rock bottom. ... The fall starts to pick up speed with that blow. ... Another factor in Holden's fall is his addiction to lying. ... Soon after she leaves, she comes back with the elevator man, Maurice. ...

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Instead she compares childhood to the colorful dancing leaves of autumn, full of carelessness and lighthearted pleasure. Then when the leaves of childhood fall to the ground, they start to brown. ... And in the end, all that's left of childhood is a graveyard of brown leaves. ... If you dig hard enough, underneath the snow you will find that the dead grass and leaves are still there. ...

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"The Fall of the House of Usher" takes place in one of Poe's most intricately detailed settings. ... The house and Roderick finally "fall" and crumble away into the darkness which reaffirms the correctness of the title, "The Fall of the House of Usher." ... The fact that Poe doesn't tell the reader what Fortunato did to Montressor leaves the reader wondering if whatever he did is worth killing Montressor over. ... In "The Fall of the House of Usher," Roderick is more of a main character than the narrator is. "The Fall of the House of Usher" is more of an account of an event through...

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Old Aunt Julia sings a song, and the crowd assembles for dinner, though Miss Ivors unexpectedly leaves early. ... Gabriel imagines himself as foolish, clownish; he tries halfheartedly to comfort Gretta, then lets her hand fall and walks to the window. ... Gabriel looks out the window and sees snow falling softly in the night. He thinks about the snow falling all over Ireland, piling up over the cemetery where Michael Furey lays buried. He climbs into bed, and his soul swoons as he hears the snow falling faintly throughout the universe, falling upon all the living and the dead. ...

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When bad things happen, true friends will be there for you to catch your fall. ... When Finny returns he is pleased that he can still room with Gene and still doesn't think he had anything to do with his fall. ... By this point, you can clearly see the effect that Finny's fall had on their friendship. ... There are two different possibilities of how the fall could have brought them closer, even though the events leading up to it show that Gene is trying to sever their relationship. ... " (Knowles 184) Gene then says sorry and leaves. ...

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When Tom first sees his mother for the first time since his imprisonment, she is described as "the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever really deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall, the family will to function would be gone" (100). ... The cooperation between Ma and the family members allows Ma to temporarily keep the family from falling apart. ... She has repeatedly shown a willingness to help other people: Ma acts generously when she leaves two dollars and some food for the Wilson...

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Dido does not wish to harm Aeneas" mission until he leaves her and Turnus has ill wishes for Aeneas all along. ... Venus and Juno willed Aeneas and Dido to fall in love so Venus sent down cupid to strike Dido with his arrow of love. Juno's motive behind trying to make Dido and Aeneas fall in love with each other and make love in a cave was so that Aeneas would hopefully not leave Carthage, the land from which Dido lives. ... Across the city she wanders in her frenzy-even as a heedless hind hit by an arrow when a Shepard drives for game with darts among the Cretan woods and, unawares, fr...

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These themes are present in the problems of the play and the obstacles that fall into place. ... Polonius offers Laertes good, fatherly advice before Laertes leaves Denmark. ... In Hamlet, he first approaches her after Laertes leaves. ... "You know, sometimes he walks four hours together / Here in the lobby. / At such a time I"ll loose my daughter to him: / Be you and I behind arras then; / Mark the encounter: if he love her not / And be not from his reason fall"n thereon / Let me be no assistant for a state," (II, ii, 159-165). ...

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Through the mouth of Socrates, he speaks of the ignorance of the masses, and the inevitable fall of democracy to tyranny. ... This leaves no room for democracy. ... A Plato further note that democracy leads to a "mob rule", rule by the uneducated masses, and inevitably ends in conflict and disagreement, falling into tyranny. ... Lecture Notes, Fall 2003 ...

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