The coffin is seen passing, the great cloud darkening the land, the cities draped in black, the sea of faces silent and solemn, and the mournful voices of dirges strongly rising. ... "O the black murk that hides the star!" ... Once a long time ago a little boy was wandering on a bright "Fifth-moth" day on the seashore when, all of a sudden, he heard two mocking-birds, a male and a female, happily singing together. ... The boy was moved, The outsetting bard was thrown into raptures and, in a moment of inspiration, became aware of the mission for which he was born: "Now in a moment I know what I...

• Word Count: 1210
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the three sets of poems, "Infant Joy" and "Infant Sorrow", "The Chimney Sweeper", and "Nurse's Song", Blake explores the two disparate but connected perspectives of our human lives through vivid concrete imagery, powerful abstract symbols, and ingenious juxtaposition. ... In "The Chimney Sweeper" from Songs of Innocence, the narrator, a little boy who is in his innocence and youth, is unaware of how difficult his life is. ... In the first three lines, the narrator calls what he sees as a "little black thing among the snow" (...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The second stanza shows that Dawe uses the television as a symbol of the relationship's status eg: he uses Bugs and Daffy, Sylvester and Tweety Pie, which show how both have childish minds and childish ways. ... The boy only wants to please his mother, this also symbolises Australians urge to please America. ... The black and white colouring of the advertisement is reminiscent of the 50s when all women were glamorous and feminine. ...

• Word Count: 1435
• Approx Pages: 6

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42