In the poem "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold he writes that with belief we need hope to survive in this dark world in which we live. The speaker in the poem is standing on the cliffs of Dover at night over looking the sea. ... The speaker begins by saying "the Sea of Faith/was once full"(21-22). ... The speaker believes that the world used to be full of faith like a sea is "full round [like the] earth's shore"(22). ... At this point the speaker no longer believes that the world is full of faith, and when he hears the waves he only feels sorrow. ...

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The speaker complains that "the world" is too overwhelming for us to appreciate it. ... The speaker wishes that he were a pagan raised in accordance to a different version of the world, so that, "standing on a pleasant lea," he might see ancient gods rising from the sea, a sight that would cheer him greatly. He imagines "Proteus rising from the sea," and Triton "blowing his wreathed horn.... "Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.... In conclusion, Wordsworth is being very direct in "The World Is Too Mu...

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The first line is simply stating that the "world is too much with us; late and soon" (1). Either the speaker is overwhelmed by what the world has to offer or he feels that all of the occupants of the world are just too much. ... Humanity can no longer identify with the natural world. ... As the speaker admires the ocean, he records the "sea that bares her bosom to the mood" (5). ... As a Pagan, not only will he appreciate nature again, he will do so to the point of being able to see mythological creatures arise from the sea. ...

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The World Is Too Much With Us William Wordsworth-1807 The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! ... (3) Greek sea god capable of taking many shapes... (4) Another sea god, often depicted as trumpeting on a shell. ... He imagines "Proteus rising from the sea," and Triton "blowing his wreathed horn." ... "We are out of tune" with this world, this is a great analogy to describe the destructive pace of the modernisation and also urbanisation processe...

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The image of the sea is seen throughout the poem. ... Since Dover Beach is part of the English Channel or know by Sophocles as the Aegean Sea. The sea is also used as a metaphor for the destiny of humanity by calling it "The Sea of Faith"(21). ... He mentions that the world is "naked shingles"(28). ... The roaring that he hears in the crashing of the sea is the world crying out to him. ...

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To his coy mistress The road not taken Sea Fever To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell - 1621-78 Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. ... This is how love should be enjoyed in an ideal world. ... We both wonder what if ' Sea-Fever - John Masefield - 1878-1967 I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick...

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Page (Canada) It has to be spread out, the skin of this planet, has to be ironed, the sea in its whiteness; and the hands keep on moving, smoothing the holy surfaces. ... O this great beloved world and all the creatures in it. ... It has to be ironed, the sea in its whiteness. and pleated and goffered, the flower-blue sea the protean, wine-dark, grey, green, sea with its metres of satin and bolts of brocade. ... Page's poem 'Planet Earth' be read throughout the world as a message of peace. ...

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The language of Poe's writing pulls the reader in to his fantasy-like world of the love he and Annabel Lee shared at a young age. ... It particularly stands out with the end rhymes that alternate lines with few variations, implementing frequently repeated, and alarmingly simplistic rhyming words like: "Lee", "sea", "me", and "we". ... In the final stanza you really feel the pain of a broken hearted man, "and so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, in her sepulcher there by the sea-in her tomb by the sea". ...

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Neruda lived by the sea at Isla Negra, where he spent most of his time at. ... The speaker is (here) in this world and his beloved is (there) far away in the world beyond. ... Far away the sea sounds and resounds. ... The "sea sounds and resounds" symbolizes memories gathered in time. ... The grief of separation is immense in this poem because the speaker is alone here in this physical world. ...

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"The Kraken" is a poem that tells the story of a mythical monster that has been slumbering at the bottom of the sea for thousands of years only to be disturbed by the end of the world causing the monster to rise to the modern world. ... Lord Tennyson uses the word sleepeth because it provides a calming and soothing sound which helps with the idea of the Kraken sleeping at the bottom of the sea. ... This makes the Kraken's final moments seem more dramatic and shows he is no longer peaceful at the bottom of the sea. ... This example of repetition is used to accentuate the fact tha...

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In stanza I, "In a solitude of the sea" (line 1) is an example of alliteration. ... In stanzas III and IV, Hardy describes the ship the way it looked once it was at the bottom of the sea. ... He is also trying to emphasize that these sea critters have no idea how grand this ship once was. Hardy states that the sea-worms were "dumb and indifferent" (line 9) to the beauty of the ship. ... I believe God has his hand in everything that happens in the world. ...

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He constantly yearns to discover and learn more, for as he gets older, he sees the margin fading of that untraveled world, and experiences a new desire to conquer the unknown. It is this desire that earns Ullyses the colossal respect of his people, because if it wasn't for his tremendous courage and toil, they would know nothing outside their world, for, before Ulysses, there had been no one prepared to tackle the barrier beyond the out most bound of human thought. ... A good example of this is the lines " there lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; there gloom the dark, broad seas." ...

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Thomas says in the poem, "Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; / Though lovers be lost love shall not" (7-8). ... The second stanza works with images of death and of torture, and plays on the paradox that the broken will remain whole: "And death shall have no dominion / Under the windings of the sea" (10-11) is referring to someone dying under the sea, and "Split all ends up they shan't crack" (17) is referring to the paradox that the broken will remain whole. The third stanza is saying that whatever happens to the world, death will never rule. ... He is only around u...

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Things like describing grandmother as gracious and the sea as sluttish and rutty. ... I think it's very sad that she played Hansel and Gretel with herself because she must have had so much more that she could have shared with the world....

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The flowers, uniqueness, and all the beautiful parts of the world they passed while on their journey. ... "Slimy things" (string 3), detonates wetness, and moist in the sea. ... The poet is writing about the horrifying beast that lives under the sea. ... He refers to men and women as the two sides of creation, giving them both an equal importance in the world. ... The author uses a metaphor to demonstrate that human equality, whether male or female, the world will always have a spot on "the world's stage"(page 1)....

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Wilfred Owen is a tired soldier on the front line during World War I. ... The second and final image group I will be studying is: "Sea or Drowning". ... An example of when Owen uses this method: "As under a green sea I saw him drowning" this sentence is used when Owen views a soldier suffering the consequences of a Gas attack. The gas attack seems to be one of the main topics in the poem and as a result this particular piece of imagery is based around it as every word or sentence to do with sea or drowning is based around this significant event: "Dim, through the misty panes and thick gree...

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Ulysses is a poem about a mighty king who decides to pass his thrown to his son to pursue his dream of traveling the world. ... He has enjoyed all his experiences as a sailor who travels the seas, and he considers himself a symbol for everyone who wanders and roams the earth. ... Telemachus will do his work of governing the island while Ulysses will do his work of traveling the seas: "He works his work, I mine." ... Ulysses encourages his men to make use of their old age because "'tis not too late to seek a newer world." ... The poem shows a man's devotion to "traveling the world"...

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Wilfred Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est about the first World War, in which he had personally fought. ... The next metaphor featured occurs in the next line - As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. This situation is linked to the earlier use of the word floundering, and carries on the sea theme in a more definite way. The man is giving up the fight, onomatopoeic of the desperate fight for air under a sea. ... Although in this case gas replaces sea, the concept is still basically the same - suffocation. ...

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Frost loved natural beauty, but nevertheless he recognized the harsh facts of the outside world. ... Frost's struggle with the traditional faith-based view of the world and the rise of science can also be linked to his poetry. ... This imagery is based upon his true and strong perception of a real world which exists outside him. ... They look at the sea all day.      ... The land may vary more            But wherever the truth may be--      The water comes ashore,            And the people look at the sea. 7      They cannot look out far. ...

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The twelfth line and last of the stanza goes, "A far sea moves in my ear.... The only conclusion I can reach from this is that of when someone takes a sea shell to their ear and it sounds like the ocean. ... " It is almost as if the mother is releasing the child into the world. ... As the mother wakes to hear her child's soft breaths, "A far sea moves in my ear", she is taken to a gentle and comforting place. ...

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Another issue in order to describe the poet's vision of nature is a comparison between some Wordsworth's verses in "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" and it consists in the two personifications of nature. . kind-hearted, benevolent woman who serves the good of mankind and the world. ... But the difference stays here; Tennyson crafts a woman to represent nature, but "she cries from cliff-top", she is not a nurturer who will not betray but one who cares for nothing, Tennyson's woman does not feed human mind, that is to say nature does not teach anything to the Fi...

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One must keep in mind that Blake placed this poem among his "Songs of Experience" for it is a realization through the experience of man that, much like the saying "a doctor can not exist without disease"*, evil must be present in our world for there to be good as the first stanza illustrates. ... "The Gods of the earth and sea, Sought thro' Nature to find this Tree But their search was all in vain: There grows one in the Human Brain" The final stanza bears the "catch of the poem". ... It can alter the appearance of the world either "as a falsely isolated and therefore...

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Damon reports two more meanings: The crying of someone in a position like the boy's, or the peep, peep, of a young sparrow, overwhelmed by a sea of snow. (270) Blake also makes use of many striking contrasts to illustrate his point. ... This feeling of a merry, fake world, and the unforgiving and cold real world is reinforced by imperfect rhyme (something that as Abrams points out is commonly used in children's poems, which Blake's songs of innocence are caricatures of). (274) In the dream, the rhyme is perfect, and the words are happy, mouth filling words, which seem to b...

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On November 4, just seven days before the end of the First World War, he was caught in a German machine gun attack and killed. ... Owen's poems, published only after his death, along with his letters from the front line to his mother, are perhaps the most powerful and vivid accounts of the horror of war to emerge from the First World War. ... The gas - probably phosgene or mustard gas - is virtually opaque and so seems like a 'green sea' and ' through the misty panes' Owen can only watch in passive horror. ...

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The setting of this poem is near the sea. ... The narrator feels that nothing in this world can be attained or grasped. ... This illusion makes the narrator so entrapped in his own anguish and sorrows that he does not pay attention to the actual world....

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