His brother Allie dies when Holden is younger. ... In the second verse of "The Boxer" there are the following lines: "When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy, /In the company of strangers,/In the quiet of a railway station, /Running scared, /Laying low," (Simmon and Garfunkel) This applies to Holden. ... He meets different strangers on his trip he's all alone scared and laying low so that his parents won't know he's back. ... /I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome /I took some comfort there." ... In verse five of "The Boxer" these are th...

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The strict form of the villanelle emphasizes the melancholy the speaker feels for his father's condition, and also emphasizes the father's stubbornness to want to lay down and die. ... Death is referred to as a "good night" and "the dying of the light." ... Both of these parts will die, one will not immortalize the other. ... They too "rage against the dying of the light." ... "Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray", (17) is the speaker begging his father to show some sort of passion for the life that is leaving him, he can even yell if he wants. ...

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Owen uses an extended metaphor - "Dim, through the misty pains and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning." ... The description of the dying man also continues in this verse. ... The readers are asked to imagine what he has seen, as in the soldier laying on the cart. The poem shows only some of the horror seen in the trenches, I"m sure that much worse things could have been seen. ... I enjoyed reading the poem because it had lots of different poetic techniques included in it and it told me the truth about trench warfare. ...

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While this man is indeed giving her a flower, it is a dying flower. ... In the second stanza her find out this other lover has died. "When I saw your corpse in your coffin, I flung back your flower to you; it was all of yours I ever had; you may keep it, and-keep from me" (801). ... "He gazed, and felt, for him, all beauty lay buried with her forever" (799). ... "Where are the people, O Lord...And the dead whom once I knew?" ...

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At first this seems absurd but it is made to work by Donne laying out plainly how he came to the conclusion that the flea is the same as sex. ... In lines 12-13 three more metaphors are stated as the flea is compared to "you and I", "our marriage bed", and "marriage temple". ... Donne goes on to plead the flea's case as he continues to use metaphors to show how terrible it would be if the flea died. ... The metaphor in this poem that I find especially engaging comes in line 25 when Donne compares the two lovers to a compass. ... Another example of these contradictions is in line 13 wh...

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When I first saw the title I was not expecting it to be about a funeral because a lot of people relate to mid-term break as being a good thing. ... The family member that died was a brother or sister to the boy that the author is talking about. In the essay I am going to look at the use of language the author uses. ... Stanza seven tells you how the boy or girl died. There is not much description of the body in this stanza, as you would expect: "Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple, He lay in the four-foot box as in his cot. ...

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When the guns finally did fall silent, the German, Austrian, Russian empires collapsed, and the greater part of a generation of young men lay dead. At the beginning of the war, most poets wrote about how it was patriotic to fight or even die for your country, "The Soldier" is one of these poems. ... In this poem he is saying if you die for your country you will be a true patriot. ... In "Dulce et decorum Est pro patria mori" describes a soldier dying of poison gas. ... The last two lines of this stanza describes the soldier dying, "Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, as...

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The poets begin their poems with easy grace "I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed", "lay down to rest on a bare hillside" yet with concentrated power. ... In "Vulture", the water in "the ocean" and the "sea light" over the precipice could represent life and fertility; the life of the man, who in his mind, thinks he's going to die. ... The first word in the poem; "I", is repeated throughout the poem, emphasizes the hawk's proud attitude. ... The hawk's philosophy of life is very clear; other creatures must die for it to live. Aware of the lack of remorse that such creatur...

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Baudelaire's "A Carrion" is a fine example of melancholy, as it is expressed by nature and the natural process of dying and decaying. ... The poem begins with what appears to be a couple walking along during a nice summer day, and there they saw the object that was the dead animal that was laying belly up on the side of the road with its legs spread like a prostitute. ... This brings about the realization that we are all to die, and nothing can be done to prevent it. ... This means that the same thing will happen to us when we die, we will be given back to Nature. The very last stanza see...

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Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874 and he died in Boston on January 29, 1963. ... Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died on January 29, 1963 in Boston (Frost). ... Before I came to view the leveled scene. I looked for him behind an isle of trees; I listened for his whetstone in the breeze. ... And once I marked his flight go round and round, As where some flower lay withering on the ground. ...

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Diction such as "sad trumpeter," "memorial," "invisible," "vanished," "gone," and phrases such as "I was lonely" more than illustrate the exact tone he wishes readers to feel-a doleful, gloomy emotion. ... There is the description of Blake, wherein though laying and shooting up with Garver, he sat and loved another. ... Again, one finds irony, in that the "hotel vanished" as Garver did, or rather died "in Mexico." ... The "old men are still alive but the old Junkies are gone-" These men have not wholly died. ...

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The only problem is that they lay "cold and low" or unnourished or not elevated. ... Thus, implying that the power has to stay within people in order for death to become a "dying flame-. ... At one point he cries out to God to reveal himself, saying "I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed [religion]; I was not heard "I saw them [the dead] not-. ...

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"My mother-my own mother, who died early, Was but the mother of myself; but you Are mother to the one I loved so dearly, And thus are dearer than the mother I knew ( Poe's Virtual Library)" The rhyme scheme of this passage is A,B. ... However, this did not end the love the author had for Annabel Lee, in fact it made their bond grow stronger as the author now goes and lays by Annabel Lee's grave everyday to reinforce the love he had for her. ...

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I also think the he chose to use a sonnet is because Romeo and Juliet is about love and this is what sonnets were used for. ... The second line "In fair Verona (where we lay our scene)," tells you where the play is set. ... I think they took their life because when one dies the other cannot stand life without them so takes their own life. ... I think the use alliteration makes you notice the words and makes thinking easier. ... Overall I think that that the prologue for "Romeo and Juliet" outlines the storyline very well for the audiences benefit. ...

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He died on March 26, 1892. ... His father, a newspaper editor, died when Robert was 10. ... He died in Boston on Jan. 29, 1963. ... An old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer to children, Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me, (Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war, But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself, To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;){Whitman, 198} Other poems of wartime are Calvary C...

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I enjoy this poem, because it displays Frost's capacity for independent thought. ... I think that the unstructured nature of this poem is a reflection on its sentiment. ... He says "die early and avoid the fate" and if you are to lead a long life then "make the whole stock exchange your own". ... However, like all of his poems, this poem can be read on a metaphorical level and beneath the cynicism lays truth and reason. ... Frost says "I found a dimple spider, fat and white on a white heal-all". ...

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"I was growing up / even as she scrubbed for dirt, / horns, anything that looked like sin." ... "Sometimes the words are so close I am / more who I am when I"m down on paper / than anywhere else / Who touches this poem touches a woman (Homecoming 102)." ... Alvarez is quoted as admitting, "I am a Dominican, hyphen, American. ... When questioned if the title "Latina writer" was accurate, Alvarez was unsure, remarking, "I think when I write, I write out of who I am and the questions I need to figure out. ... In a review, Jason Zappe explains the unusual structure of the book, "The novel unfold...

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