Sonnet 73 contains multiple parallels to death and the speaker gives the impression that he is near death and is reflecting on his past life. ... It is important to note; the poet has changed his focus from aging, to dying, to death and narrowed his scope to the close of one day. In the third and final quatrain the author speaks of a "deathbed" of ashes which maybe interpreted as the ashes of his youth.The same ashes or embers; once the fuel and provider of youthful energy; now are self consuming, bound for expiration and extinction.The timing, one notes, has yet ag...

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- Make brief notes about context (specific situation surrounding a setting). ... - Make brief notes for characters (who? ... No generalizations/give proof. ... - Comma: brief pause - Semicolon: longer pause - Indentation: stop before starting again, gives importance to what is about to be said Essay Approach For the essay, approach the question by using the candy wrapper technic: - Introduction - Identify poems - State the relativity of the poems to the themes being discussed - Body - State meanings of text, structural relativity and literary devices (aAs long as it ties into the ...

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He notes the despair of "every" Londoner and their oppression by the "church" and the state. ... Coupled with the repeated use of 'and' gives an atmosphere of distinct oppression to the poem. ... The metaphorical usage throughout the poem gives the reader a sense of what London was like in the 1700's....

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The fact that the poem ends with a (near) repetition of its first verse gives it a structure of periphery (the two outer verses, A and F), and core verses (B – E). ... To begin with a macroscopic look at the poem, we note that it has thirteen questions (i.e., sentence fragments): seven question marks in the first half, and six in the second – an almost perfect numerical equilibrium. ... The next point to note is that all stanzas except the fifth one contain adjectives: "immortal", "fearful", "distant", "dread "(twice), and "deadly"...

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From the two titles, the reader can note a marked similarity in that the two birds mentioned in the titles are both birds of prey. If we examine the forms of the poems, we are able to note a significant difference in the stanza patterns and lines. ... The poet chooses to personify the hawk to enable it to speak to us, to give a speech. ... "Hooked" gives us an image of power; that the hawk is able to hook anything that it wants. ... The hawk's authoritative tone captures the reader's image in that we are forced to give him noble rank. ...

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He wrote "We buy ashes for bread; we buy diluted wine; give me of the true-. ... "The memory of ages quenched; Give them again to shine; a dazzling memory revive;". ... He attached to this poem a note, which read, "The man who is his own master knocks in vain at the doors of poetry". ...

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He denotes that they are wasting all of Scotland's money and giving it to other countries just for lavish foreign prizes. ... Burns cleverly moves the poem through two transition stanzas (lamenting the loss of the privileged tax-free still of the upper-class and cursing the excise) to end on a note descriptive of his own ideal. ... "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. ...

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In my view, the poem works out Hughes's apprehension, his feeling that his ability to understand the emotions that generated this form of artistic expression was not on a par with the expression itself This is indicated by the last line of the poem, where the speaker notes that the piano player "slept like a rock or a man that's dead." ... He never enters that space whereby the piano player is speaking for him, giving utterance to his loneliness. ... The poem's structure enables this reading, if only because the speaker "quotes" the lyrics, but never allows his own voice to give...

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While the vast portion of student readers will give the poem a once-over and get to work, a genuine understanding and analysis takes a bit more time. ... The child tries a "handful of notes" and Plath relates the sounds of the vowels to a group of balloons rising. ... Lines seventeen and eighteen read, "Your handful of notes;/ The clear vowels rise like balloons.... Not to mention the beautiful simile that ends the poem, "Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like balloons....

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Literature is a faithful reproduction of life executed in an artistic pattern. It ha the power to set our imaginations soaring through a myriad lives and worlds. It can add something to what we already know about ourselves and the rest of humanity. It is written material such as poetry, novels,...

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Alfred's poem is not only backed with material to decipher, but also detailed thoughts which gives the reader the full scope on his inner remonstration. ... Although Alfred harps on the same notes of longing and dismay, he wields the harp with masterful consuetude. ...

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In his reference to Sophocles" play Antigone, Arnold says that Sophocles heard the "eternal note of sadness" and it reminds him of how humans suffer and are miserable. ... Overall, the sea evolves from one thing to another, it grows and gives Arnold a device the make the poem flow, and if the reader looks carefully, the form of the poem almost resembles that of slight waves, in a back and forth motion, as is the meter of the poem. ...

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He illustrates his idea by giving an example of an unperfect actor who forgets his lines on stage and more curiously, some fierce thing whose heart is weakened by the weight of his own strength. ... Another aspect worthy of note is the way the phrase mine own love's has been used repeatedly; in line 7 the persona speaks of the decay of his love and in the very next line he speaks of its strength. ...

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From the start of the first quatrain, the persona declares his lover unappealing-- "In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note - (Lines 1-2) The beginning line is rather deceitful because Shakespeare's pattern from previous sonnets continues with either an explanation of the persona's blind love that goes beyond physical beauty or the persona's love which withstands the test of time and aging beauty; however the second line unexpectedly continues by the persona stating that his lover has "a thousand- faults. ... Unlike a traditional bea...

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She gives the impression of hating her father, for not only dying, but also being authoritarian and stern. Note she says, "I see you at the blackboard in the picture I have of you". ... The narrator is giving voice to the proverbial end of her rope. ...

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In the aside of the next three lines, the speaker gives away his joke, but he does it jokingly, again partly by tricks of rhythm. ... The next question ( What brought the kindred spider . . .), in a voice of lost innocence, brings a new note and a harsher irony with kindred' (as if the sweet flower and the spider had conspired to arrive at exactly that height and place). ... " Alliteration picks out salient impressions to give older theological and Emersonian arguments a reverse twist " Design, yes "but for evil. ...

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Aristotle, a formalist critic, claims that the author gives the work its true meaning, and that meaning is never-changing. Derrida and his controversial deconstructionist philosophy, on the other hand, sees the words as giving other implications. ... He explains that a critic must " treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential quality of each, to inquire into the structure of the plot as requisite to a good poem; into the number and na...

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This gives the idea of the girl being unspoilt, virginal and pure. ... This gives the reader the illusion that Prestatyn will be the holiday of their dreams. ... He also notes that this was well scored in'. ... The alliteration of s' gives clean, sharp sounds that persuade us to buy these goods, screen graves, custard, salmon, shine, sharply'. ... This gives the image of death. ...

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The speaker compares two unlike things and gives a non-human thing human characteristics and actions - specifically through the use of a metaphor and personification: "Home's face" referring to the girl he likes. 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." ...

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The connection between the speaker and nature is immediately set up as: 'I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sat reclined' (line1-2). ... In stanza two the literary device of personification is used with nature as a 'her', giving nature a gender. ...

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The experienced speaker gives in to the innocent children after hearing their pleas to stay outside, probably convincing herself that she has nothing to worry about while they continue to play into the evening. ... Important to note in both Nurse's Song and The Divine Image is, once again, how Blake creates human characters for readers to identify with. ...

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Throughout the poet the maid gives a multitude of images when explaining what her typical day is like working for the mistress. ... When the maid notes at the end that she burns in the absence of the pearls that stay in her mistress' room, she may be hinting towards the fact that she actually burns to be in the bedroom with her mistress as well. When the maid notes that she feels the absence of the pearls, it could symbolize the longing and lust for her desire for the mistress to be in the bedroom with her. ...

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The reader must note that the poet who wrote "Cousin Kate" was a wealthy lady, and so could not have encountered the situation in her poem, whereas the poet for "The Seduction" could quite easily have experienced a teenage pregnancy. ... The mood here is triumphant because she knows that she has got what the lord wants most, something which her cousin cannot give, "your father would give lands for one to wear his coronet" She says this to her son, because she knows that this is what the lord wants most, an heir, and her cousin is infertile and cannot give it to him. ... The girl he chose, Co...

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Sidney Colvin notes in the book John Keats: His Life and Poetry "in the light of the tragedy to come its two first quatrains now seem to thrill with prophetic meaning" (259). ... A couplet concludes the sonnet by giving a solution to the quatrains. ... In "When I have fears that I may cease to be," the acceptance of death cans sooth the fear; on the other hand, in " Why did I laugh to-night"the acceptance of death gives the poet's feeling of grace. ...

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Tone The tone of this poem is rather imaginative because it gives us a discription of every-day things from a Martian's point-of-view. ... Purpose I think that Raine wrote this poem to give man a different perspective on our reality. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

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• Grade Level: High School