In the third line the picture gets even darker as he out-walks "the furthest city light." ... In the eleventh and twelfth lines he sees the moon, looking like a "luminary clock against the sky". He is alone, and the one thing he sees- the moon- is so far away. ... In Pound's In a Station of the Metro, there are only two lines. Those two lonely lines are very telling, though. ...
"Otherwise" Commentary "Otherwise" by Cilla McQueen is a two-stanza poem that hauntingly presents the agony of being in a long-distance relationship in which irreconcilable differences of opinion augment the actual physical distance between the two. ... Below the equator, water going down a drain spirals opposite to draining water above the equator, and apparently a waning moon in the North would be a waxing moon in the South. ... McQueen uses sound to suggest how naturally this all would happen with the gliding /w/s of "we would walk" and the absence of plosives. The poem concludes with ...
Looking at the first verse; I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind. I left my body laying somewhere in the sands of time, I watched the world float to the dark side of the moon I feels there's nothing I can do, yeah. ... The words are walk and world, I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind. In the second line the two words are somewhere and sands, I left my body laying somewhere in the sands of time. ...
The "cop [who] walks by" could simply be made to represent society. ... Then, after, he is "here-sitting on the streets again-" The entire stanza relating "movies," "Teen Age Nightmare[s]," and "Hooligans of the Moon" is very telling of the current atmosphere of Ginsberg's time. The "Moon" can be translated as meaning the late night of Times Square, and all of the dank, "lowly" happenings that occur. ... Society worried that these young adults-these movie watching, "Hooligans of the Moon"-did not care, yet now they themselves are blinded, and are just as numb (as related by the image of t...
In the third stanza, the protagonist says, "Dogs have been nipping at my heels since I learned to walk. ... 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. ... The moon hangs from the sky like a swollen fruitMy feet betray me, dance anyway from this killing tree". ...
Another issue in order to describe the poet's vision of nature is a comparison between some Wordsworth's verses in "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" and it consists in the two personifications of nature. . kind-hearted, benevolent woman who serves the good of mankind and the world. ... I think that the two different vision of nature reflect the two different periods, that is to say romantic vision is much more optimistic and nature is used to escape from the society, which is not accepted by the poets, it is a sort of shel...
