Distinctly, the speaker is talking to a person who found a girl he liked and ended up getting into a relationship with her, but then the person did nothing else with the relationship out of fear of committing. ... Similarly, in "Someday You Will Be Loved," Death Cab for Cutie writes, "I once knew a girl/In the years of my youth/With eyes like the summer/All beauty and truth/In the morning I fled/Left a note and it read/Someday you will be loved." ... This adds to the idea that according to the speaker their relationship was and will be nothing more than a one night stand. ... While "Your Heart...

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The responder sees this change from there possibly being "a magic city" to there possibly being "just a hollow wind, or maybe nothing". ... The final stanza reinforces the idea that change can be positive and that noting should ever stay the same. ... The narrators discontent with his old culture is shown by the phrase" I inherited unknowingly the curse that damned," showing that to him the Polish that he has picked up off his father is nothing but a curse to him. ... The changing of perspective is recognized by the way in which these migrant believed they were coming to the land of hope an...

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Literature was supposed to give nothing to the knowledge. ... It was a must to note that language is a human creation contained cultural heritages of linguistic group. ... Such poetry, then, is lies and may be an imitation, but it is not an imitation of any truth and therefore must be condemned. ... In Book II he claims that "a young man must not be allowed to hear that he does nothing strange when he commits the most shocking offenses" (Republic, II, p25). ...

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(Song, p. 4) Note that this connection is simply made through lying in the grass and listening to ambient sounds, not through forcing song or voice to fill what isn't really empty in the first place. This is the first key connection between Whitman and Rilke's ideal of the self, as Rilke also believed that humans had to stop focusing on what we think the world is, and start noticing the truth: Yes, the springtimes have needed you. ... Whitman mentions on p. 47 of Song of Myself, Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid. . . ....

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A critic has said that 'A theme which dominates Larkin's poetry is that desire is ultimately unobtainable' Discuss two or three of Larkin's poems in the context of this statement. In your answer you should consider: - The various forms of desire that Philip Larkin explores - The conclusions that...

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There are a few things to note about this guy, since he's pretty revealing in the way he goes about this poem. ... The Realist When you start a poem with "If I should die," then you're already confronting a cold, hard truth that most people would rather not think about. ...

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That's all, nothing else... That's all, nothing else... Only this, and nothing else (30). ... It's just the wind and nothing else!... He perched and sat there, and nothing else (42). ...

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