The poet perpetually refers to images like kingdom, death's dream, and eyes as a way to understand death and time without end. ... The images dramatically symbolize a lifeless terrain: This is the dead land This is the cactus land Here the stone images Are raised Under the twinkle of a fading star. ... This is evident by Eliot's usage of the "fading star." If the star is slowly dwindling it's impossible to make a wish upon it and keep the faith. ... The absolute despair is prevalent when he writes: The eyes are not here There are no eyes h...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He looks up and sees the western fallen star. "O the black murk that hides the star!" ... The song of the bird, which he is beginning to appreciate, induces him "a mystical state" from which come mystical visions: "To the tally of my soul,/ Loud and strong kept up the gray-brown bird/ While my sight that was bound in my eyes unclosed,/As to long panoramas of visions." In this way, "Lilac and star and bird twined with the ehant of my soul". ... The poetic process is highly symbolic: the star is associated with the thought of death, the lilac with a token of life for the dead, and the bird with ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He uses elements like the moon and stars and associate them with her bright eyes. ... "Poe mentions the moon and stars in which he observes the bright eyes of his dear Annabel. ... (Johnson pg.4) The poet mentions the moon and the star in which he observes "the bright eyes" of his dear Annabel. "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes of the beautiful Annabel Lee...

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I pictured a very homely looking woman with dull eyes, pale lips, pasty skin, hideous hair, and appalling breath. ... When it construes the lines such as " My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun" this is an instance of a simile in this sonnet. ... " It is an ever fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken", and " It is the star to every wandering bark" are the metaphors in this sonnet. ...

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The two poems being compared are both love poems. Poem one is On My First Son by Ben Jonson . The next one, poem two, is called Unending Love by Rabindranath Tagore. Both poems are well written love poems that have similar subjects (love) but differ dramatically because of their structures, ...

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• Grade Level: High School

An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest. ... 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 and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking. ...

• Word Count: 1553
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School