In the first quatrain, the poet uses the autumn season as a metephore for his progression in years; for as autumn progresses the leaves are " yellow, or none, or few,".The tree, personified as an aging man, leaves the reader with an image of a frail older man whose body is weakened and shivering with age... 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 ash...

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The turning of the seasons, a wooded area, and other things common in nature, were also common in Frosts poems. ... This poem is all about mans eternal struggle between Life, Death, and the consequences of our actions in between, which decide what comes after. ... Garnet also writes "In nearly all Mr. ... It is all about a man exploring not only the woods, but himself, and his life. ... They both can change rapidly; have ups and downs, seasons in a sense. ...

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Poets like Arnold of nineteenth century started to hold a very pessimistic view about the Victorian crisis, and in almost all his poems, he seems to express only a negative attitude toward his contemporary age. ... He tries to portray in his poems a real and clear picture of the problems of contemporary age in an implicit way, and then shows a positivity or a ray of hope at the end of almost all his poems. ... First of all, it is necessary to introduce the Victorian four elements in the total situation of a work of art: the artistic product itself, the universe representing nature, the audie...

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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. ... It involves the true sight of an animal, and "Where we see the future, he sees all, and sees himself in everything, / he and all, whole always." ... Rilke connected us all through a "life source" as well. ... (The Seventh Elegy, p 207) and in the fig tree that, without fanfare, forces its "concentrated essence / into the season's first fruit." ... It is readily apparent from thi...

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Poe's Poems In personal appearance, Edgar Allen Poe was a quiet, shy-looking, but handsome man; he was slightly built, and was five feet, eight inches in height. ... That's all, nothing else... That's all, nothing else... I turned back into my chamber, all my soul within me radiating, and soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before (31-32). ... His eyes have all the likeness of a demon that is scheming, and the lamp shining over him casts his shadow on the floor. ...

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