In line 2 he says " Shutting, with careful fingers and benign" this means that he is being gently and very careful not to harm the body while it is in its "sleep". ... In line 8 he calls his coffin a bed and says that all the people are saying their good byes. ... He finishes of by saying that when the key locks the casket shut it has "hushed the Casket of my Soul." ...
Although the last line is abrupt, it finishes off the poem very profoundly. In the first part of the last line, the boy realizes how small the box is that his brother lies in "A four foot box." In the last part of the last line, the boy realizes how young his brother was to face death "a foot for every year."This last line sums up the poem and the realization of the speaker very well. ...
The second line finishes off by saying "Love is not love." ... The firs line calls it an "ever-fixed mark" unchanging. The second line says love is not shaken by temptation. ... This line compares love to the North Star for a ship (bark). ... The second part of the first line and the second line says, although time can affect beauty it will not affect love. ...
In the second line the comparison starts to favor his beloved: his beloved is more beautiful and less extreme than summer. ... Starting from the ninth line Shakespeare shifts his tone with a great passion: "Thy eternal summer shall not fade." ... Line ten and eleven give an answer in comparison with line six and seven: The summer's fair declines, but the fairness of his beloved will be everlasting. ... In line twelve the "eternal lines of time" not only refers to lines of poetry but also to lines of beauty. The poem finishes with a triumphant couplet, which explains and summarizes the th...
In Hayden's poem it was the line "then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made"(1204). ... This line confused me with the use of the words austere and offices. ... They had a strong start and finish and stuck to a main theme. ...
There is no danger down here - or if any, it will be well over before you read these line .." 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 ...
The poem is concerned with the way society behave "lovable" (line 1) Lawrence appears to be very discontented with the way society is artificial and desires people to change. ... "Elemental" has many references to the "elements" (line 4) and how they act. ... Lawrence finishes this stanza by writing humankind off with the line "Man is lop-sided on the side of angels" (line 8). ... The way society behaves derives from their youth and Lawrence knows it can change because the water cycle does and does not "lose its head" (line 14) therefore mankind can change. ... Lawrence has finalised his poe...
Sexton expresses her poem through an ABABCBC pattern, which is different then your normal six or eight line stanzas and is instead seven. ... She changes the second to last line in every stanza but only a little to summarize what she was saying in that specific stanza. ... The second line just adds to the creepiness and darkness the witch brings. ... Line eighteen brings us back to the first stanza where our speaker is being compared to a witch. ... I wrote about how I interpreted the poem but then once I finish I asked my friend how she did and it was totally different then me. ...
She starts the poem with a "regretful" feeling line: "I should have caught my unicorn when I was sixteen." This line sets a mood from the beginning reflecting on how she missed out on something. ... She finishes the poem by saying that it is too late to catch the unicorn because she is " too old and caught- herself. ... This line is telling the children to most of all be true to love, because there is much time later on in life to be careful and sleep. ...
(line 56) In the first quotation, repetition of the word "the" followed by a noun is used along with alliteration using "m" sounds to make the communication more effective. ... when I"m skinned to a finish I"ll pike to the Yukon again." ... (lines 69-72) Service riddles this final passage, with parallelism, alliteration and mid-line rhyme to end the poem on a memorable note. ...
In the poem, "Home Burial" by Robert Frost, the use of dialogue creates a movie-like reading, engaging the reader in a new approach to experiencing poetry. Through the dialogue the reader is able to intensely feel the emotion between the two speakers. Rather than circuiting around the issue being ad...
(l. 5-8) I wanted to analyze the word "recompense" (in line 8). ... " (l. 9-10) Shakespeare finishes the poem by using a metaphor that suggests that as long as the poem he writes to her exists and people can read it then she will keep on living too. ...
But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but faith" and he writes that it is just for knowledge and trust that we believe in things we see "it comes from thee", moreover in line 22 when man has no fear, "we mock thee". ... 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 "...
