The poem, "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died," by Emily Dickinson describes what one woman experiences right before death. ... "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" has two characteristics that differentiate itself from other ballad stanzas, making it unique. ... Then, something has gone wrong when we notice that line 12 starts with a trochee. ... From the first line we know that this poem is about death, but death, the fly, doesn't show up again until the end of stanza three. Dickinson took time to establish a scene of how people face death and anticipate the reward of afterlife from the tradit...

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This poem is very interesting because we always here hear about how your life passes through your mind before you die. ... We do not know how my friend died yet. ... She had no choice how to die or when she was going to die, it just happened. ... That is how I believe this person died. ... I would love it if it was possible to choose how and when you die. ...

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This is because Plath's father, the protagonist in this poem died when she was eight years old. He died when she was at an age where she needs his love and attention the most. ... You died before I had time. " However, in stanza three, she says "I used to pray to recover you. " If we were to compare these two stanzas, it is completely contradicting each other. ... If we were to remember about how cruel and brute Nazis were to the Jews, that was how she symbolized her relationship with Otto. ... When her father died, she had a hard time adapting to the loss. ...

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How the frog gets injured by a machine of man and dies unnoticed. ... The second stanza talks about how the toad lies, waiting to die. ... The final stanza talks about the final moments of the dying toad. ... The day passes and the toad is about to die. ... The toad is just a simple example, of how we sometimes unknowingly harm this planet. ...

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This brings about the realization that we are all to die, and nothing can be done to prevent it. ... This means that the same thing will happen to us when we die, we will be given back to Nature. ... The next two lines talk of how water turns into air, and once again the change is compared to utter sadness and here we can see the theme of melancholy. The gloominess is continued in the following two lines where Ghalib speaks of a spring cloud thinning after a rain, and how the cloud died in its own weeping. ... Poets have consistently used comparisons and metaphors to express how they feel, and...

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I will, in this paper, give an overview of each of the poems, explain how they compare, explain how they contrast, and then say which poem is the greater piece of literature. ... In the third stanza, "In fine, we thought that he was everything / To make us wish that we were in his place" (11-12). ... In "Richard Cory," Robinson shows how sad it is when others only see you for your outward appearance. ... An instance of where the people admired him and wanted to be him is in the third stanza: "In fine, we thought that he was everything / To make us wish that we were in his place" (11-12). ...

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The two poems by Emily Dickinson, "I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I Died" and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," revolve around the theme of dying. ... By discussing each of the poems and contemplating their meanings, the reader should have a better understanding of the message Dickinson is trying to send to her audience and a much greater aspect of what could be waiting for us after we die. ... This stanza deals with how God is brought upon by the speaker's death. ... Stanza three states, "We passed the school, where children strove at recess in the ring; we passe...

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It's also another example of how the experience of England will live on for our speaker. ... We shall. ... So that's how the poem is organized in terms of general structure, but how about line for line? ... Need we say more? ... We do? ...

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BEFORE DYING "Death is not darkness; it is just putting of candle because dawn is here." ... Such is the optimistic perception that is reflected in Jibanananda Das's "Before Dying". ... How even the "long winter nights" were also loved by him. ... "We have seen the green leaf yellowing in the autumn dark;", implying that we have seen the shedding of leaves in the autumn just the way we have seen the lush green during the spring. In this verse the poet mentions the individual beauties of each season and how life is in complete rhythm with nature, how life becomes colourful during s...

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His mother died when he was very young, shortly after his father had abandoned them. ... This is common when two people part ways, or after a loved one dies. ... We get a real sense of how helpless Poe felt about life. ... It really makes you consider how everything we have in life is going to be taken from us at some point. ... " He could be saying that we all have a finite amount of time here, and no matter how hard we try to hold on to it we can do nothing to slow it down. ...

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We can tell by his maturity level. The family member that died was a brother or sister to the boy that the author is talking about. ... Normally we would expect the boy's parents to come and pick him up from school, but on this occasion they do not. ... Stanza seven tells you how the boy or girl died. ... In this stanza it shows how the boy was killed and again emphasizes how something so small could die. ...

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In Verse One, Owen starts by explaining how he and the people around him are feeling. ... This line allows Owen to show how violently the wind was blowing, causing the wire to move. It allows us to appreciate how cold the men must have been, due to this violent wind. ... Owen writes, "Is it that we are dying?" ... In the last line of this verse, Owen writes, "we turn back to our dying". ...

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When she died she was folding a little towel' typifies the mother's life. ... It also holds greater significance along with the belief that what we die becomes what we are remembered for, Gwen Harwood will remember her mother for being tidy and that was what she died doing. ... Gaining greater awareness of her mother's value and appreciating, after her mother has died, how important her mother was to her. ... We know this because the child wept for what [he/she] had begun. ... How is Change Conveyed? ...

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Life: A Long And Winding Road Through out life, we encounter many obstacles and joys in our "journey" towards death. ... Longfellow's poem discusses how we all go through life and many different situations, but the sea (life) still ebbs and flows. ... The setting shows how beautiful life is, and how we should all take at least one moment to notice it. ... "And miles to go before I sleep" can be considered as years to go before I die. In " The Tide Rises The Tide Falls" the traveler will never return to the shore, insinuating that he has died. ...

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This is true for the majority of the men and women that fight, but when your country tells you about war and all the brave things that can be done, they often forget to tell you how to deal with the death and fear that results from seeing fellow men dying in front of you, it reaps havoc on your emotions. Nor do they tell you how you will never be able to erase those memories from your mind. ... The title "Dulce et Decorum Est" means "it is sweet and meet to die for one's country. ... In the first section we are introduced to the soldier and we are given a very grim account of the...

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He talks about how the war becomes a never ending nightmare of attacks. ... Pro patria mori which means to die for one's country. ... Win or lose, live or die, it is all for your country. ... Do we know all the history? ... I guess we will never know....

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Bryant personifies nature by stating how nature "speaks a various language," how she has "a voice of gladness, and a smile and eloquence of beauty." ... Bryant is joined by Shakespeare when he states that we "bare the whips and scorns of time." ... Bryants use of mysterious realm tells the reader that the kingdom to which we will travel to when we die is completely unknown. ... Thomas's poem refers to the approach of death as the "dying of the light." He tells his father that he must have "fierce tears" and "rage against the dying of the light." ...

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In line 5 Dickinson begins death's journey with a slow, forward movement, which can be seen as she writes, "We slowly drove---He knew no haste." ... As the woman dies, her eyes, or windows (15), fail and then she "could not see to see (16)." As she died she saw "the light" but then her windows, failed and she saw nothing. ... There exists a standard idea about death and how it will come. ... The persona of these poems signifies that, even though we might have plans about the end, death is uncontrollable and unimaginable. ...

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This is developed by words such as limped, lame, blind and "Drunk with fatigue", these all suggest how oblivious the soldiers are to all around them, and how they stagger and fall - as with being drunk -. ... The personification of 'helmets' by the use of 'clumsy', outlines how 'drunk with fatigue' the soldiers are, uncoordinated in their actions. ... "In all my dreams before my helpless sight", suggest this scene haunts Wilfred Owen's memories, because, we discover, he was unable to help the dying man. ... The dying man is treated like chunk of meat. ... (Sw...

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It's understanding what we can do - the very best we can do. ... So how do these two words apply to life today? By nature, we want our lives to be full. ... Appreciate it the best way you know how. ... Live as if you were going to die tomorrow." ...

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In the second sonnet, Shakespeare used images of a forest in autumn, growing brown and dying. He uses the forest to describe how he feels about his life, wasting away and in its autumn-time. This metaphor is very powerful, as we all know how the forest dies as the world approaches winter. This powerful description works well to describe how he feels about his life and how he feels his creativity is starting to wane. ... His descriptions paint a vivid picture and leave a lasting impression on the readers of his works, showing how effectively using images is to create the world he is trying ...

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"How nice," et cetera. ... how the children "whine and bicker" and later on states how "sweet" it is "to hear their chatter." ... A glossy magazine the children bought her lies open: How to keep your husband's love. ... In this poem the woman can be seen as drudge, very tired, a victim of her suburban framework; and any love the children's father felt for her has died. ... Within the first few lines of most of her poems we are struck with the graphic and distinct atmosphere of the whole poem. ...

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Owen goes on to tell us how the men were dragging their feet. ... Owen uses - "Cursed through sludge" to show how frustrated they were walking through the sludge. ... Owen uses a simile to describe how the soldier is dying in the gas attack as a result of being to slow in getting his gas mask on - "Floundering like a man in fire or lime" he uses a simile as if the man being burned by the gas attack is being compared to someone burning in a fire. ... We can feel the mans pain and agony as his flesh is burning. ... The description of the dying man also continues in this verse. ...

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From reading this poem we can tell that they were really close. ... His only son died at such an early age that he didn't get the chance to fully experience the world. ... It seems that whenever someone dies, there is always someone that is going to question God. ... We each have a time limit that we are to spend on earth and when that time is up God will take you. ... It could be hinting at how beautiful his son was and how, well, poetic and perfect he also was. ...

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We discover our world through our senses, however when authors and poets are distinctively visual in their writing, we gain access to their own sensory and personal experiences. Additionally, visual messages have been a paramount form of communication that allows us to engage in the trials and tribulations, and equally triumphs, of lives we would of otherwise not encountered. ... What is interesting is how he composes distinctly visual elements to attest to is own resilience and self mastery. ... By personifying pain, suffering and eventually death as a being or deity, Henley inflicts his own ...

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