The first verse of "The Boxer" is this : "I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, /I have squandered my resistance /For a pocket full of mumbles, /Such are promises, /All lies and jest /Still, a man hears what he wants to hear, /And disregards the rest." ... He also gives his opinion twice in the book about how he feels people don't relay messages because they don't really care. ... In verse five of "The Boxer" these are the lyrics : "Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone /Going home, Where the New York City winters aren't bleedi...

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Fulfilling your needs and desires in Nikki Giovanni's "Master Charge Blues- In Nikki Giovanni's poem "Master Charge Blues- we are told a story of how a woman misses her mate and uses her master charge to escape the feeling of loneliness. ... I think that one possible theme for this poem may be that when the one you long for and desire most is not present you need to fulfill those desires in other ways, for instance shopping. ... This to me means that she is feeling regret and frustration because of her feeling of loneliness. ... This again gives me a sense of lon...

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With "To lytel while oure blysse lasteth" [too little while our bliss lasts] (line 211), he leaves her, echoing a theme of this and other poems in Chaucer's love-poetry oeuvre. ... He would give this gift to obtain the swift and deep sleep that Alcyone did when Juno answered her prayer. ... Analysis Burying the body of a relative with proper rites was a recurring theme in classical literature (such as in Sophocles' play  Antigone), so it was not surprising that Ovid would make it part of the story of Seys and Alcyone. ... Alcyone asks Juno to give her news of her lost husband, and ...

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The poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost tells the story of a man; perhaps the poet, who stops by the woods a watches as snow falls. ... The subject of the poem is "calmness", "loneliness" and "emotions", and the theme is "a man in the woods", "the handling of emotions, being able to keep calm during them", or "a man experiencing the contemplation of death". ... There are eight syllables on each line, which gives it a smooth chant. ... This gives me the impression that time and use of a good tone is needed to read the poem the way it was intended to. ...

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Although, he is telling the story, it is rather informal; such as he uses words like "flound'ring" on line 12 and "fumbling" on line 9. ... The poet gives the readers a sense of extreme urgency by stating: "Gas! ... In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning" which describes the suffering horror of the soldiers from gas attack. ... Therefore, lines 25 and 26 suggesting not to perpetuate patriotic stories to the next generation of "children." At last, Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est" delivers a message toward the readers with anger an...

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Maya has taken her struggles and transformed them into inspirational poems and stories that reflect her ability to overcome adversity and make it in a world where the white male supremacy reigned. ... Maya's first collection of poetry, Just Give Me A Cool Drink Of Water Fore' I Diiie, was published in 1971. ... The themes of these poems include the rejection and injustice that blacks faced at that time. ... "Times Square- tells the story of a shoeshine man who cleans shoes at such a remarkable rhythm that it in fact keeps his spirit alive. In "Harlem Hopscotch,"" she uses the ...

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The theme of Richard Cory is that things aren't always what they seem. On first reading this poem it made me feel sad. The poem has such a realistic touch to it and it made me feel as if I knew Richard Cory himself. The poem reminds me of how kids and teens idolize movie stars and famous singers. ... The poet seems to describe Richard Cory by giving him King-like characteristics. ...

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Throughout the poem, there is a reoccurring theme of hatred and violence, personified through antagonists, the 'Klu Klux Klan'. ... The protagonist of the play (The African American woman), goes on to say, "My lover told me: Shush, we have too many stories to carry on our backs like houses, we have struggled too long to let the monsters steal our sleep, sleep, go to sleep". ... My mother taught me well". Implying that all her life she has been treated unfairly either because of her race or gender, but her mother taught her not to give in to those who discriminate agai...

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An analysis of the astounding collection of poetry and stories by Robert Frost I find the themes of ironary, satire, and most of all nature to be present and persistent. ... From his poem "The Mending Wall" to his poem "In a Disused Graveyard" he has shown several themes to his style of writing. ... In the poem "Departmental" my opinion is that Frost is giving his conception about the government and he demoralizes the concept of the departments. ... Then he goes on to say that the war seemed over to him more than Frost but next line he says "But now for me than you - the other way" I feel he i...

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Edgar Allan Poe in his poem, "Annabelle Lee" (869) uses various techniques to reveal his theme. ... "It is his personal story of lost love which achieves its unique effects through its narrative voice"(Reilly pg. 2). ... "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes of the beautiful Annabel Lee... He chooses his words carefully making sure it gives the right effect about his character. ... "Words like these are the most natural, tender and tou...

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He is credited with creating the detective story genre and with transforming the Gothic mystery tale of the Romantic Period. Poe developed a theory that he applied to both his short stories and his poems. ... The theme or plot of the piece is always subordinate to the author's calculated construction of a single, intense mood in the reader's or listener's mind. ... Tell me, tell me, I beg you!... Leave me alone! ...

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Each poem is unique to one another due to these differences; the time they were written, their themes, the representations of man and nature used, the rhythm and rhythmic pattern of each, the imagery used and lastly the similes and metaphors. ... In this poem, nature is trying to get back to man, as "The deer had come for me". ... Nature and man's representations in each of the poems are all quite different, but all have a part in the basic story of this on-going interaction between man and nature. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", being the earliest of the three poems, has the "knight-at-arms"...

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The mistreatment of the Haitian people by white-Americans is a central theme in Felix Morriseau-Leroy's Tourist and Boat People. ... This man is there on some rescue mission where there is a probability of them giving out clean water and some canned goods and a picture with this poor man would cap it all off. ... The poems tell interesting stories and gave me a more mature view on the subject matter....

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It is then stated that the sun gives back to nature her own gift, a hundredfold of her desire. ... The last paragraph states that "the rose changes give us our joy in seeing. ... Now that you are here, let me touch you like the forehead of the beggar that touches the ground. It's not surprising that you came to find me because you care for the ones in pain like me. ... In the first stanza he refers to the Urn as a Sylvan historian that tells a story more sweetly than a poem. ...

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It further underlines and describes her play's themes, and it also emphasizes the heritage of black American literature, a heritage that portrays a very different conception of America than the literature of dominant white culture. ... Hughes" reference to the play is very important because one theme in the play is the importance of dreams each member of the Younger family is driven by . ... This money would fulfill Ruth's long awaited dream of owning a home and not living in that apartment of hers; Walter would use the money to satisfy his dream of owning his own business and not w...

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But examiners love to make people 'compare', and so I suppose it is a valid exercise to look in a critical way at two different poet's rendering of the same general theme. ... I would greatly appreciate any ideas or tips you could give me for my essay. ... What pictures do they paint, or story do they tell you? ...

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It was largely a poetry of urban themes; the Romantic dependence on nature had already declined. ... His poems are largely traditional in theme, form, and structure, and show a continuity with the Wordsworthian art of recording the impact of ordinary daily events on an individual and sensitive mind. ...

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Alfred Prufrock" (1915) gained reputation for the exploration of new poetic rhythms, forms, and themes and captured enormous attention. ... Reference to the word "time" is used constantly as in there's "time for you and time for me", before they have some delightful upper-class tea. It gives the logic that the upper class people have plenty of time to spare- leisure time" There goes a saying that "time is money" as well, which supplements to make this upper-class view even better-off. The disadvantaged lower classes are shown through the imagery such as "Cheap hotels" and "sawd...

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