" This quote by Dorothy Rowe reinforces how Plath's persona considers herself a prisoner of depression, but also a jailer to her children. ... This quote spoken by the speaker to the reader shows the effects that depression has on one's life. ... This quote spoken by the speaker to the reader conveys the impact that the speaker has on her children. ... This quote spoken by the speaker to the audience shows how the random break in the stanza can take away the rhythm in a poem. ... This quote spoken by the speaker to the audience shows how when one meditates, they clear their mind...

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By reading the poem we can tell that he has a lot of anger, having lost his son, when he said "flesh's rage" (quoted in Approaching Literature, 828). ... "Oh could I lose all father now" (quoted in Approaching Literature, 828) shows that he may lose his faith in God. ... The line "Ben Jonson, his best piece of poetry"(quoted in Approaching Literature, 828) has some significance, comparing his son to his poetry. ... After grieving for some time, Ben shows that he is now content that his son is in a better place when he uses the words "rest in soft peace" (quot...

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By way of the following quote, Wordsworth criticizes conventional religious orders as well as scientific thinking: "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers, little we see in Nature that is ours: we have given our hearts away a sordid boon!... In yet another quote, Wordsworth expresses his disgust for controlled and limited thinking brought on by religious dogma: "Great God! ... The verses quoted clearly reflect Wordsworth's belief that conventional religious organizations were not only responsible for mankind's state of depravity, but that those same organizations wer...

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" The repetition of the word, "body," within the quote, "Body and nobody," connotes the physical and spiritual levels of a relationship, depicting the sleeper's ability to fully trust the sleep that will embrace them. ... Heightened through protective imagery within the quote, "carry you and ferry you," an image of a mother's protective nature when it comes to their child is explicitly demonstrated. ... This protective image is further emphasised through the quote, "consume you, engulf you" as it connotes a mother being one with their chil...

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This quote shows that the buffalo are seen to be joyful and resemble new life. ... This quote could be taken two ways, one that when one individual buffalo has passed away they respect the life that the buffalo has led as a kind of basic respect showing that though they may be dead, the hunters are still showing it due respect. ... The other way the quote could be taken is with the opinion that Lindsay's use of gore, as quite a violent and ferocious word, is indeed suggesting that the American civilisation do not miss the buffalo at all, instead they have replaced them with advancing tech...

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Prior to these lines the poem is talking about how as the men fall from the helicopters she sweeps harder and this quoted lines shows how it seemed like they were falling right out of the screen onto her floor. ...

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Oh, just another kind of outdoor game," Within this quote signifies the conveying in enjoyment of rural activities, it being mindless and pointless, used as a distraction from reality, referring to his family in which misfortune after misfortune occurs, in addition to his economical insecurities in life. ... This quote seems that the poet has in the end reassured himself that although of his family's misfortune, he"ll still carry on with his life. ... "And be one traveller, long I stood" Here the quote hints that the persona is travelling by foot in evidence of my suggestion. ...

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This quote is saying that, their ancestors have struggled and suffered too long, to let people like the 'KKK', come and instill fear in their minds, but it is time to overcome the fear, and not allow the KKK to scare them. ... The last part of the quote foreshadows this poor woman's fate at the end of all the drama, she says "I want to dance under the full moon" In the last two stanzas, the poem reaches its climax, and the author reveals just how gruesome humanity can be. ... One of the most moving quotes in the poem goes, "I want to squeeze my baby's legs...

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- Use the technic of P.Q.E: P: Point to be proven Q: A quote which ties back to the point to be proven (Paraphrasing is allowed but not encouraged) E: Explain the quote and point to be proven...

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This is evident in the quote "I was 12 going on 13 when I first saw a dead human being". ... We can interpret this poem in many ways, that a dream should be pursued no matter how long it takes to accomplish it, that a physical journey is a reward in itself, that a journey may not lead to a destination, which links all the way back to Lao Tzu's famous quote,"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving". ...

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"When glided in Prophyria; straight/ She shut the cold out and the storm/ And kneeled and make the cheerless grate/ Blaze up, and all the cottage warm;/ Which done, she rose, and from her from/ Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl/ And laid her soiled gloves by, united/ Her hat and let the damp hair fall/ And, last, she sat down by my side" This quote describes so much. ... The last line of this quote expresses how the man feels inferior to the woman's belongings. ...

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What impression of war is given by Dulce Et Decorum Est and Exposure by Wilfred Owen? In Wilfred Owens's poems he shows that war is unpleasant and not the great adventure promised by the earlier poems. He focuses on how painful death was and how monotonous life on the front was like. To emphasis...

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Analysis of "Tears, idle tears" Lord Alfred Tennyson's, "Tears, idle tears", has many references to symbols and images that reflect the mood of the poem. Gloom controls the atmosphere the author is describing to the audience. These images better the understanding of this poem and give the rea...

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This quote tells the speaker's reasons behind wanting to revert back to childhood. ... This quote means that one could do much worse than be a dreamer and use one's imagination to travel from place to place escaping reality for only a few moments, and to later return to earth and find that reality does continue. ...

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The quote portrays their fatigue and exhaustion very vividly, to beyond the point where they are able to stand up straight. ... It makes the line more memorable and draws the attention of the responder to the words themselves and what they signify in relation to the rest of the quote. ...

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Diction PEEL A Fabulous quote by Barbara Kingsolver, in "High Tide in Tucson" referring to how art is forgotten around the world, while centuries into the past art was the way of communication and living. ... This controversy brings argumentative responses, depending on the way the reader feels while reading this quote. ...

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This quote defines Anne Bradstreet, for she has proven to be a master of word placement. ... Her words were not appreciated in their entirety until long after her death, which brings me to a quote that describes Anne Bradstreet's accomplishments best, written by Francis Bacon. ...

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He implores the idea hat he is happy to be holding a pen, "It rests; snug as a gun" The quote "snug as a gun" gives the impression that the pen fits naturally in his hand. ... The quote is used in the context so that Heaney seems to be disappointed he also cannot wield a spade. ...

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APPRECIATION OF JOHN KEATS" "ODE TO AUTUMN" "Ode To Autumn" is a compelling, influential and inspirational poem that many critics have considered to be one of the most impeccably written poems in its time. With Keats" articulate and lucid imagination, "Ode To Autumn" is brought to life with desc...

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Garden Of Love is one of William Blake's poems from his "Songs of Experience and Innocence" era. I think the content of the poem has both innocence and experience portrayed throughout it. This piece consists of three stanzas and all have their own focal point and meaning, yet are tied in to give a...

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War isn't all you think it is, it has much more to deal with then just killing people. The author of All Quiet on the Western Front ,Erich Maria Remarque, and the poet of "Dulce Et Decorum Est", Wilfred Owen, have similar opinions on war. Threw out there writings they give examples of how war can hu...

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There are ironical quotes when the speaker seems to be against the wall, trying to convince his neighbour that they don't need it, but it is he that mends the wall after hunters destroy it and it is also he who calls his neighbour in spring mending-time. ...

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Hughes's aesthetic works out a trope that brings internality and externality into a state of opposition. One sees an example of how this unfolds in "The Weary Blues." The speaker in the poem documents the experience of listening to a piano player in Harlem play the blues. Steven Tracy's compelling a...

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The only part where alliteration is present is when Frost is describing the act of sex, "soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells, shattering and avalanching on the show-crust- Once again, it is the words in the quote that can relate to the feelings of sex, "shattering", "crust", "sun's warmth", and "shed." ...

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"Edgar Lee Masters. Lucinda Matlock' - In "Lucinda Matlock,"" Edgar Lee Masters demonstrates the literary devices of the realism and frontier era. Edgar Lee Masters wrote during the realism period, his writing being greatly affected by his life. Masters wrote in a free verse style using the de...

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