London is the heart of the United Kingdom, a port and an important centre of commerce. It is near impossible for us to imagine it as 'calm' even in 'The beauty of the morning ;' In contrast to this the Blake poem uses hyperbole to criticize London and the sadness and malice of the people who live their.Blake's London brutally painted is a dark, dirty, disease ridden and deprived place Unlike the Wordsworth poem it leaves you in no doubt as to the authors feelings on the subject. ...

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/ O darkness! Darkness! ... In addition, the poem uses both iambic pentameter, "My fancy to its utmost blisses spreads," (10) which brings natural sound and trochaic pentameter, "O Darkness! Darkness! ... This sentence "Then to my human heart I turn at once," (4) stresses on human heart because Keats asks his own heart. ...

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At the start of line twenty-five the poem stops making nice imagery and allusions, and turns to a more dark somber piece. ... The poems shift form light-hearted to dark and dreary gives the reader a better understanding of how the poet might feel at this time. ... In fact the darkness of the second half comes as quite a shock, and makes the reader stop for a minute and think about the poet's feelings. ...

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The two following tales - "The Cast of Amontillado" and " The Tell Tale Heart " - are stories where the narrator is completely different but the author is the same. ... On the other hand, " The Tell Tale Heart ", is without a doubt a different poetic prose. ... In contrast, " The Tell Tale Heart " consists in human nature that is a delicate balance of light and dark; good and evil. ... This would be the dark side that emerges "vulture eye "of the old man that makes the narrator's blood run cold, and the only solution to this unsolved fear will lead to murder. ...

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His eyes, with long dark lashes, were hazel-gray. ... Then I opened the door wide, and there was only darkness and nothing else (23-24). ... The silence remained unremitting and the darkness gave no sign (27). ... Let me see, then, what it is, let my heart calm down, and explore this mystery. ... Take your beak out from my heart, and take yourself away from my door!...

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This beautifully stated imagery results in a very heart felt poem. ... Plath writes, "Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness... "Mirror" reflects her old age as a dark and separated life from others, in comparison to her youth which is reflected back to her as beautiful and full of life. It's obvious that Plath wrote "Mirror" from her heart with intensity and compassion....

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Malvolio often wishes that he held Olivia's heart and hand, but the social order and classes found in Renaissance times restrict him. ... They then try and convince Malvolio that the light in his cell is truly darkness. This darkness symbolizes Malvolio's non-existent insanity. ... In response to his imprisonment, Malvolio says, "I say this house is as dark as ignorance, though/Ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say there was/Never man thus abused."" ... Orsino discovers himself and what he wants by the end of the book, and gives his heart to Viola. ...

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The Swan is identified as overpowering- "the great wings," "the dark webs," "he holds her helpless breast upon his breast"(Rosenthal, 114). ... "How can body, laid in that white rush, but feel the strange heart beating where it lies?" ... "This happened so fast that not only was she terrified but not paying attention to the big picture (rape) but instead feeling his heart beat" (Levine, 254). ... A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. How can ...

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The speaker believes that he and his father are almost the same, " he moves in darkness as it seems to him." The poem shows one mans desire to be friends with another man with a heart of stone. ... Some people try to be nice to others but the people who they are trying to be nice too won't open their hearts and allow the love of friendship flow in. ...

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In the final stanza you really feel the pain of a broken hearted man, "and so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, in her sepulcher there by the sea-in her tomb by the sea". Edgar Allen Poe's feelings are made quite clear; he really poured his heart and soul into the final stanza and captivated the reader who viewed the tragedy of life and death through his eyes. The poem of "Annabel Lee" has a fairytale style, with images representing the dark side of Poe's imagination. ...

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It crawls on your skin like a shadow, quickly making it's way into your heart. ... In Frost's Acquainted with the Night, he uses an aimless walk in the dark of the night as a metaphor for the loneliness that he knows so well. ... In the third line the picture gets even darker as he out-walks "the furthest city light." ... We have all been our own island at one time or another, and these two poets were able to reflect the darkness of the soul that we so often have a difficult time expressing. ... Words will bear light to that darkness, giving us relief to know that we are not alon...

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"Christina Rosetti seems towards the dark side of life." ... By looking at her use of language, imagery, themes and her addressee I shall explore to what extent I agree with the statement that the work of Rosetti leans towards the "Dark Side." ... The themes exposed in each poem reveal to a great extent Rosetti's beliefs and moral ideals as well as her views of life and any inclination she may have towards "the dark side". ... The threatening image in line 5 of the "broadening darkness" is almost one of omnipotence, as it is described as "loftier still". ... This suggests that the claim...

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Come out of the darkness and let Nature teach you. ... "She has a world of ready wealth, our minds and hearts to bless" (Lines 17-18). Nature is ready to "bless" our hearts and minds with wisdom and knowledge. ... Come to Nature with an open heart and mind ready to learn. ...

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The speaker can be interpreted as Wordsworth based on the use of 'I' and true emotion being at the heart of the Romanticism. ... The link made between the human and nature being one adds to the belief that man is the darkness within the natural world highlighting the romantic interest in nature. In addition you can see the spontaneous overflow of emotion with: '...grieved my heart to think/ What man has made of man' (line 7-8). The use of the word 'heart' creates the contrast of the heart and the mind and captures the essence of the contrast of romanticism and tra...

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Bryant portrays nature as a woman who is here to provide comfort for us in our "gayer hours" or in times of our "darker musings." ... He says that when thoughts of death come "over thy spirit" and makes you "grow sick at heart" you should go out "under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings, while from all around...comes a still voice." When feeling scared of death just listen to nature whom, with it's soothing sounds, will calm your heart until that day in which nature "claim(s) they growth" and are "resolved back to the earth again" in which you "mix forever with the elements...

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"This wary aristocratic mole- is the mother saying that the daughter is an untrusting mammal of nobility, as moles have dark silvery fur and her daughter is dressed in head to toe in gray. ... We see where the mother is feeling hurt again by what she sees next: "The Chateaubriand arrived on a bone-white plate, smug and absolute in its fragrant crust, a black plug steaming like the heart plucked from the chest of a worthy enemy; one touch with her fork sent pink juices streaming."" We see here that "The Chateaubriand- is a represent...

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"The rain set early in tonight/ The sullen wind was soon awake/ It tore the elm-tops down for spite/ And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break." ... It is rainy, dark, and windy. ... He is so sensitive that his heart is able to break because of her. ... "And called me/ When no voice replied/ She put my arm about her waist/ And made her smooth white shoulder bare/ And all her yellow hair displaced/ And, stooping, made my cheek lie there/ And spread, o"er all her yellow hair/ Murmuring how she loved me-she/ Too weak for all her heart's endeavor/ To set it'...

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Through the many, many years, Ulysses has forged a distinct name for himself, by "always roaming with a hungry heart". ... A good example of this is the lines " there lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; there gloom the dark, broad seas." The reader gets the felling that Ulysses is sitting possibly in a castle on the hill, by the hearth mentioned earlier, looking over the port and the dark seas that lie beyond. ...

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Agard then uses the image of the sky to show the feeling of injustice by comparing the word "half-caste" to the universally beautiful image of the sky due to its constant changing of light and dark. ... Light represents hope and clarity and the prejudice people are seen as the darkness, shunning the light. ... John Agard uses humour to portray the feeling of injustice in the poem but beneath this light-hearted surface is a serious message about the effects of labelling someone "half-caste" and therefore only half a person. ...

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Contrastingly, the child in "Infant Sorrow" is the only one speaking and is describing his or her own birth as a traumatic experience using despairing words such as "helpless", "struggling", "striving", and "bound", which radiates an eerie sensation of being trapped in darkness and hopelessness. ... On the contrary, the illustrations in Blake's original plate for "Infant Sorrow" are contrastingly in a dark room. ... In the "Nurse's Song" from Songs of Innocence, "the voices of children" (Line 1) is descri...

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It has a "gathering rage," and seems like a "dark ancestral spectre" or ghost. ... It seems to be asking why the storm metaphorically enlightens the persona's understanding even as it plunges the country into literal darkness. ... The persona is amazed to find her heart unchained by what could have been a mind constricting event, and she asks why it is so. ... The mystery is "sweet"; it is thawing the frozen lake that is the woman's heart, frozen against the land and the people to whom she has come. ...

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(Kehoe, John) Daddy is a morbid, dark, disturbing poem seemingly narrated by an angry child/adolescent girl. ... She mentions it again in the tenth stanza, "The boot in the face, the brute, Brute heart of a brute like you". ... She refers to him as "the black man who bit my pretty red heart in two" symbolizing her pain caused by not being acknowledged or feeling love from her father. ...

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But even though the jaguar is in "prison darkness" it does not let humans treat it as a circus act. ... The "bang of blood in the brain deaf the ear" is alliteration, and its sound represents the heart pumping in the jaguar's ears, he is very focused, ignoring the sounds coming from the observers and listening to the wildness in its blood. ...

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Through the use of metaphors and similes, Shapiro is able to swing the mood of the poem into a dark, pessimistic view of death. In the line, "Pulsing out red light like an artery" (3), the author references to a strong, beating heart, and subsequently life. ...

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Turn, Turn, Turn Wallace Stevens's poem "The Death of a Soldier" illustrates life and death in both the natural and human world. Steven's structure and rhythm contribute to the poem. The stern tone, disorder of trochees and uncertainties: fuel the reader's awareness plus desire to know. Negative...

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