The Frost family moved to Massachusetts when he was 11 yrs old after his father died of tuberculosis. ... He relates fire with desire, suggesting that he compares desire with something that consumes and destroys. ... His parents died of a disease when he was younger and he lost four of his children. ...
They are not talking about a superficial death but rather, a dying on the inside. ... The first two lines in the poem "Thou still unravish"d bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time" (1-2) suggests that the characters have died or are frozen in time. The lovers are separated on the urn, symbolizing that their desires will never materialize and the death of their love. ... Hughes is searching for a desired reaction to his words and has accomplished that. ... A part of them has died inside that they will never be able to replace....
He enjoyed his younger years in Wales, and his later works reflect his desire to relive his happy childhood. ... This passage means that although every man is going to die, love will never die. ... This line means that time is keeping the narrator until it is his time to die. ... Thomas presents a vivid image of how quickly one's life can pass and a universal desire to recapture youth. ... In the last stanza Thomas is talking directly to his dying father. ...
"It would be easy to be clever/ and tell the stones: Men hate to die," (line 14) reveals the main theme of the poem. Man's lust for life overpowers any desire he/ she faces. ... "It would be easy to be clever/ and to tell the stones: Men hate to die/ and have stopped dying forever/ I think they would believe the lie," (lines 13-16) clearly depicts personification, humor, and motifs. ... Finally, the end of the poem (lines 13-16) lightens the mood and shows some empathy and sympathy for the humans who die now, died before, or will die in the future. ...
BEFORE DYING "Death is not darkness; it is just putting of candle because dawn is here." ... Such is the optimistic perception that is reflected in Jibanananda Das's "Before Dying". ... The poem subtly and continuously plays beauty, desire, life and colour against grey death(darkness). ...
However, it is best exemplified by a familiar stanza from Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time": Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. ... Advertisers know about this basic human desire and build it into their slogans: Who Says You Can't Have It All, Just Do It, Satisfy Your Thirst, Life Is A Journey - Enjoy The Ride, and so on. ... Live as if you were going to die tomorrow." ...
I think that he uses the word "provide" to imply that when you are preparing for your death by making "friends," you are only providing yourself with the status that you desire and want. ... He describes this striving for status: "Die early and avoid the fate. / Or if predestined to die late, / Make up your mind to die in state" (7-9). He tells those that are fated to die late to make a choice to die with status, as if it is a choice to be made. ... The "I" is repeated in "mind" and "die." ... This shows selfishness for those that want to die with airs. ...
In the poem the speaker represents Robert Frost who is contemplating his life and what it will be like when he dies. ... Lines 28 and 29, for example, have an abrupt rhyming couplet, "overtired," and, "desired," that stand out against the more widely spaced rhymes in the other parts. ... For I have had too much Of apple-picking: I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired," (lines 24-29). ...
Wine is desired by the speaker in the second stanza as he weaves images of the sunny Mediterranean with the bleak reality of his surroundings. ... It is here that the speaker tells us that he is extremely fond of the idea of dying here and jong nature: "Now more than ever seems it rich to die". ... I feel the idea being presented is that if one truly desires happiness and fulfilment then nature is the only true component that can provide this, it is seen a an enlightening force on an individuals ability to truly feel and understand themselves. ...
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom Let me go nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear deliberate disguises Once the poet has experienced dream's kingdom the desire to live in Paradise is much stronger than his desire to remain a member of a "dead land." ... The absolute despair is prevalent when he writes: The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river The hollow man is blind, unable to move forward with any under...
In this work Yeats uses various literary techniques to express his desire to be freed from his failing and imperfect human form. ... With an apostrophe to the three sages, he begs them to take his undying spirit away from his mortal body, which he metaphorically describes as "a dying animal". ... To never die ignores His will. ...
In one of Keats" most famous poems, "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to be- Keats explains to the reader his fears of dying before he is able to share with everyone all that he knows. ... "Never have relish in the faery power of unrelenting love- He desires to find his one true love but fears that death will claim him before he has the opportunity to fall in love. ...
Baudelaire's "A Carrion" is a fine example of melancholy, as it is expressed by nature and the natural process of dying and decaying. ... It is then stated that the sun gives back to nature her own gift, a hundredfold of her desire. ... 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 gloominess is continued in the following two lines where Ghalib speaks of a spring cloud thinning after a rain, and how the cloud died in its own weeping....
The Sonnet defines an old man in a relationship with a younger lady who is dying and how much he loves her. ... The narrator desires stand upon accomplishing the description of the aging man with imagery while at the same time demonstrating how little time is left in his romantic love story. ... The plot is defined under the subject of explicit where we know he's dying and that he's leaving. ... She loves him more because he is dying and time is running out. ... "That time of year" is relating to the stage in his life where he is growing old and about to die. ...
His use of the ice storm and the boy seems to represent his wistfulness at growing old and his desire to be young again. ... He desires to be free from it all, but then he says that he is afraid that the fates might misunderstand and take him away to never return. ... We want to go to Heaven, but we don't want to die to get there. ...
The responder understands that the poet sees "the happy lover", as well as the "object of desire", three boughs and the piper creating the music. ... He is the tree that will never go bare, because he died in the spring season of this year. ... However, the hero is still alive and gains the object of which he desires. ...
The speaker is caught between his desire to remain still, by the serene beauty of the woods and his contrasting need to live, to return to his responsibilities. ... For instance, "For only Gossamer, my Gown-" "My Tippet-only Tulle-" Her attire alerts us that the she is dying. ... We can feel the last rays of the sun that touch Dickinson's eyes before dying. ...
After her father died she met Reverend Charles Wadsworth. ... There also remained a deep sense of mystery and a desire to know the why of things (Chelsea House of Library Criticism 2841). ... The only thing she feels sure about is the fact that she is going to die, and when she does, her soul will live on in some way. ...
By stressing the word he shows that the speaker has difficulty relating to the joyful and lighthearted, and therefore cannot find more expressive words or the desire to elaborate more fully. ... For the entirety of one's life, they are dying, and one can only be dead if they once were living. ... He actually mentions the appeal of dying when he says, "I have been half in love with easeful Death, / Call"d him soft names in many a mused rhyme / / Now more than ever seems it rich to die" (52-55). ...
Best known for bringing the Imagist Movement to America during the age of Jazz, Amy Lowell also brought forth an undeclared sexual revolution for poetry in America. Born into a wealthy family of scholars in Brookline, Massacusetts she resided on 200 acres of land and was home schooled. In fac...
In her dream, Alcyone sees Seys at the foot of her bed, and he tells her that he has died and that she must find his body by the sea and bury it. ... Finally, after the full explanation of the lady's worth, the knight, under questioning from the narrator, blurts out that she has died. ...
It was composed as an elegy to his friend, Hallam, who died at the age of 22 from a fever. ... The poet compares himself to the yews and so to the death, I think because these animals live underground, and as human being they born and die; moreover he envies "the sullen tree" and "for thy stubborn hardihood" because the tree does not die and in my opinion he imagines to free himself from hishuman nature, represented by the blood, and therefore incorporating himself into nature. ... In my opinion winter represents the death of nature, but the difference is that nature regenerates, whereas h...
Neruda's father was a railway employee and Neruda's mother died only two months after his birth. ... In, "Here I Love You," Neruda realizes that the sea is both tender and cruel; he recalls memories and past times together with his love, waits for a "reply" but cruelly does not receive one that he so desires. ... Somebody possibly died and some believe there are with them. ...
