The poem seems to take place in the late autumn season in the cold where leaves begin to fall from trees. ... Within the first quatrain, he compares himself to the trees that are losing leaves in the cold. ... It differentiates himself different then individual in modern society, for example when he states "yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang, (Line2, Sonnet 73) I would've written, 'While the leaves appear to be yellow, the more time goes by, fewer and fewer may hang until eventually no more yellow leaves will be left". His choice of words when it comes to ordering th...

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When speaking of the changing season, the falling leaves and the paired butterflies, the speaker remarks, "They hurt me. ... She notes that "the leaves fall early this autumn" and "[different] moss is grown [and is] too deep to clear away" (Pound 20-21). Instead of taking pleasure in the coloured mosaic of fallen leaves, the speaker sees them as a sign of decay and isolation, indicative of her loneliness. ...

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This is obviously fall. I can see the orange, yellow and red leaves, lying all around. The gray/brown bark of the trees where the leaves are already fallen. ... "The Road Not Taken" is set in fall. ... Fall is a time when things are old and while sometimes beautiful, the days are numbered. ...

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The shape of the poem can also be seen as the path of a falling leaf; the poem drifts down, flipping and altering pairs of letters like a falling leaf gliding, back and forth, down to the ground. ... Finally, the leaf falls into the pile of fallen leaves on the ground, represented by 'iness'. ... The lines' spacing synchronizes the speed of the reading with that of the leaf at different points in its fall. With its capital 'I's, 'IrlI' also indicates a leaf falling straight down before it hits the ground (147). ... It shows that even though a le...

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The shape of the poem can also be seen as the path of a falling leaf; the poem drifts down, flipping and altering pairs of letters like a falling leaf gliding, back and forth, down to the ground. ... Finally, the leaf falls into the pile of fallen leaves on the ground, represented by 'iness'. ... The lines' spacing synchronizes the speed of the reading with that of the leaf at different points in its fall. With its capital 'I's, 'IrlI' also indicates a leaf falling straight down before it hits the ground (147). ... It shows that even though a le...

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"* The "divine attributes of innocence", in the second stanza, undergo a sinister metamorphosis to prepare for "Blake's naturalistic fall of man"*, much like the traditional fall commonly known as the story of Adam and Eve, it involves a tree. ... Also, Blake's tree can now be considered to be developing leaves and branches, in other words expanding as implies the word "spreads". ... In Blake's "Proverbs of hell", he states: "As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys." ...

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On his return to Brooklyn in the fall of 1848, he founded a "free soil" newspaper, the "Brooklyn Freeman". ... After the war, he held secretarial jobs to support himself, and lost one such job when his employer's scandalized eye fell upon the Leaves. ... In his final essay written one year before his death in 1891, he sums up his struggles of thirty years to write Leaves of Grass. ... In lines seven and eight, Whitman breaks off a twig and twine some moss around the twig to keep the leaves from getting loose. ... The line "uttering joyous leaves all its life" means that the poet has lived...

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"Blow" suggests something light and unwanted such as litter or perhaps it is when the leaves die and fall of the trees and blow away, leaves fall off in the autumn, and it suggests the town is out of its season. ...

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An example of her tone can be found in the first stanza where she lists all the tasks that she must fulfill throughout the day: "I've got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop" Her tone can also be found in the lines "Fall softly, dewdrops And cool my brown again" and "Let me float across the sky 'Til I can rest again" in which the mother wishes to seek relief from nature. ... Examples of imagery being used are "Fall gently, snowflakes Cover me with white.... Punctuation also leaves an effect in this poem. ...

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John Donne's poem, "The Broken Heart" is composed of a multitude amount of themes, worthy diction, poetic devices, and figurative language that fall into place in order to successfully emphasize on the thoughts of heartache from the speaker. ... It follows, "Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though the be not unite " (25-28). ... A lover can learn but never love again after a broken heart, Donne chooses his diction carefully to allow the speaker to wrap the poem with the idea of how the rapid damage leav...

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While news is for briefing, fiction is for fantasy, and so on poetry leaves the reader with a feeling of familiarity. ... It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shriveled forms Crouched in the moonlight. ... The reference to autumn signifies the end of something, similar to the way which nature dies in the fall. ... It is the feeling one gets when they first fall in love, or when they experience their first heartbreak. ...

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The "sick leaves" foreshadow disease and death, which is reinforced by how they "reel down in throngs." ... The word "throngs" is used to express the multitude of the leaves falling down which creates an image of uncontrollable death and passing time. ...

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Civilizations rise and fall; yet it is the art that remains. ... It can be snow on a mountain or possibly a stream running through a valley, but whatever it may be Yeats leaves it up to the reader to decide. ...

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Biographical Timeline 1893 - 18 March, Born Plas Wilmot, Oswestry 1911 - Becomes a lay assistant at Dunsden 1913 - Leaves for Bordeaux, France to teach English 1914 - Meets French poet Laurent Talihade 1915 - October, Returns to England, enlists in 3/28 regiment. 1917 - Arrives in France to notorious Infantry depot as an Officer reinforcement 1917 - 12th January, In charge In front line at Serre 1917 - 14/15th March, Suffers concussion after a fall 1917 - 8/30th April, In an attack at Dancour Trench, St Quentin 1917 - 2nd May, C.O notices he is unwell, Evacuated to No.13 CCS with she...

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Romantic Poets: Wordsworth, Shelly, and Keats. The Romantic poets are recognized for the love of nature. They all have expressed their love of nature in relationship to some aspect of life. They reflect on nature as something so immense and beautiful as well as its immutability. Three romantic ...

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The length of the lines vary between each section of the work, but the majority of this poem and many others by Whitman are written in breath-length lines – meaning that they are written the way that Whitman spoke, the pauses falling where his would naturally fall. ... That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm/ To thy sick heart. ...

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For instance, "We slowly drove-He knew no haste"// "We passed the School, where Children strove" "We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain-" "We passed the Setting Sun-" Repetition of the word "passed" for several times show that in her journey towards the eternity, she gradually leaves behind her legacy. ... Visual and tactile images appear in Frost's poem, in which the speaker has stopped "between the woods and frozen lake" to listen to "the sweep of easy wind" and watch the fall of "downy" flakes of snow. ...

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Psychological Critical Theory's definition is a work of literature has done something valuable if it shed light upon the human mind, for example: Hamlet, Crime and Punishment, The Fall. ... His unique Leaves of Grass' was new in form and in content. ... No publisher or author's name was on the first edition of Leaves of Grass' in 1855. ...

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The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost - 1874-1963 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. ... The poem reminds me of The Fall of Icarus' by Peter Breughel It is a rural scene ...

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In Robinson's poem, "Richard Cory," another great fall takes place. ... His use of assonance, alliteration, and his choice of meter and rhyme wonderfully created a cynical and mocking feel that leaves a lasting impression on the mind. ...

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One image is of calm, peaceful evergreens, the other, of trees that have gone bare in the fall, dark, and foreboding. ... In the third stanza, he describes both paths as having leaves on them, and none of them are black. ...

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Whitman believed that a poet's thoughts were "hymns of praise" (1855 preface to Leaves of Grass) to things, and Rilke believed that a poet had to "win the confidence" (Letters to a Young Poet) of things. ... It is in "the way a fountain's / falling is caught by its next jet as though in play . . ." ... while Rilke mentions in The Third Elegy on p. 190 that: [an unborn child] Loved his inner world, the wilderness inside himself, that primeval forest from among whose toppled trunks, accumulated leaves, and silent ruin rose his pale...

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Anyway, in section 22 it is described a sort of experience of the author and Hallam that consists in a fall out of natural or seasonal time, they coexist with the natural passing of the seasons and at the end this cyclical time changes into a more linear time endowed by the immanence of death, represented by "the Shadow"; it is more explicit in another verse this concept of seasonal time "And every winter change to spring" in section 54 line 16. ...

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A proem is a short introduction, in verse, to the matter and meaning of the rest of the poem. Some published editions of the poem do not make a division between The Proem and The Dream. The Proem is lines 1 through 290, and The Dream is lines 291 through 1334, the end of the poem. In  The Book of t...

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In the second stanza Plath talks about her father's death and when she says, "I have had to kill you- (line 6), she means that she had to try to forget her memories of him because most of them were good and it only leaves her saddened. ...

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