They must sail west, over the Sea, into the Havens. ... Yeats lives in a place "that is no country for old men". ... An old man is treated as inferior to the young man, he is a decrepit scarecrow, as the metaphor "A tattered coat upon a stick," illustrates. ... That is why he has "sailed the seas and come/ To the holy city of Byzantium". ... Unfortunately growing wiser also means growing older. ...
Another simile that Owen uses is - "coughing like hags" that quotation shows that the men are like old women with a harsh hacking cough, being ill and too weak. ... We can feel the mans pain and agony as his flesh is burning. Owen uses an extended metaphor - "Dim, through the misty pains and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning." Owen compares a man dying in an attack to a man drowning in the sea; the clouds of green gas are like the sea surrounding the soldier. ... Another comparison is the green sea is meant to be a cloud of gas. ...
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". ... The first is "older than we" and the second is "far wiser than we", which seems to be a mocking tone showing resentment towards the angels in heaven. 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". ...
When he is talking in the poem, Ulysses is already an old man. ... He opened minds to completely new possibilities, and although he grew old, strived to continue. ... A good example of this is the lines " there lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; there gloom the dark, broad seas." The reader gets the felling that Ulysses is sitting possibly in a castle on the hill, by the hearth mentioned earlier, looking over the port and the dark seas that lie beyond. ... Overall, "Ulysses" is an inspiring poem about a truly great man, a man who expanded the frontiers of societies knowledge for his ent...
The line is; Bent double, like old beggars under sacks which is already a rather miserable tone. ... He describes the soldiers" crooked stance and compares them to old beggars, uncomfortable and undesirable. ... The next metaphor featured occurs in the next line - As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. ... 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. ...
An example of this would be: "flound"ring like a man in fire or lime- this example makes us aware of the movement which this soldier would use during the gas attack "flound"ring". Another implication this simile has is that the soldier would not be in control of the situation as if a man was on fire he would not be able to put it out simply and this would be similar with the soldier used in the example as this would be an unusually helpless situation for him to be in. ... The second and final image group I will be studying is: "Sea or Drowning". ... An example of when Owen uses this method: ...
He refers to the soldiers as 'hags', 'old beggars', who are 'bent double' and 'knock-kneed'; creating an impression of tired, filthy, unshaven, pitiful people. ... "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning", links directly back to the impression created by "flound'ring", of someone struggling to stay alive, but is going to die regardless - quite like someone drowning. ... The dying man is treated like chunk of meat. Owen uses gruesome imagery to portray the man's death. ... "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest, to children ar...
Calling the readers "my friend," Owen discourages the "children's" beliefs in the old lie. ... Images in the second stanza, "Green Sea," and "like a man in a fire and lime" give the intense color of the scene, green. ... These words helped to achieve the image and struggle of a man dying in gas. ... The poem bears strong emphasis of an irony to the old lie "Dulce Et Decorum Est." As an educated man Wilfred Owen was able to recognize the lie and propaganda by the government towards the soldiers. ...
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 men themselves on the other hand feel they are getting to old; they are too weak in their old age. ... The poem shows a man's devotion to "traveling the world" and keeping an open ...
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". ... In the stanza of the preface it is shown the important effect that time have on human being, that is to say, the death "They have their day and cease to be"; every man has his system or his time, which is divided by days, then being a linear time, there is an end. ...
It is about the eventual downfall of man which is represented by the Conqueror Worm killing all the mimes at the play. ... In this way, the Conqueror Worm could represent the Devil as the ultimate downfall of man because man is able to be seduced easily. Man's conviction isn't as strong as he believes it is and the Devil takes advantage of this. ... "But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul O...
"White Man- is a direct attack on the white man's violations against the African-Americans. ... "White Man! White Man! ... You are the smart guy, White Man! ... Its tone reeks of depression and self-pity, "On the shoals of Nowhere, Wasted my song Yet taken by the sea wind And blown along."" ...
There we are given one of the expressions used by Owen to compare the men like "old beggars under sacks". ... " Knock-kneed coughing like hags- Here we can visualise an image of a body bent double, wheezing and coughing like old witches, shattering the body in one blow! The young men are referred to as "hags", in other words old women compared as witches. The impact that Owen draws upon the reader is of young men who are no longer young but who look old and dying in amongst the crud. ... "In all my dreams ." whenever he tries to sleep he cannot fight that mans agonizing death. ...
In the poem "Suzanne Takes You Down" by Leonard Cohen, the courtly love relationship between man and woman is evident. ... The suffering people are referred to as "sailors" and "the sea shall free them". ... Suzanne is dressed in old rags. ... First of all, the man is usually drawn to the woman's appearance. ... Often times, the man refers to his partner as a goddess or a deity. ...
Much like the structure of his works, Bryant's language is reminiscent of an older English vernacular. ... The use of old English words such as thy, hath, though and didst give Bryant's poems a less modern feel that resembles classic English poetry. ... "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" is a prime example of this; Whitman uses the premise of taking a walk along the ocean shore as a time to reflect upon his life and his poetry, wondering whether or not both are doing what he would like them to do: "I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single o...
"If anything will rouse him now, The kind old sun will know," The second stanza goes much deeper into the Generals emotions he is saying why did the sun break the earth to create us, if we are going to slaughter each other. ... "And floundering like a man in fire or lime" This line is saying the soldier was panicking too much that he was making mistakes and because of these mistakes the soldier doesn't get his helmet on in time and now he is surrounded by green gas. The last two lines of this stanza describes the soldier dying, "Dim through the misty panes and thick green l...
This line needs to be remembered as the poem is based on the idea of it as 'the old lie' mocking the established belief of nationalism and duty to your country. ... The line is sarcastic as Owen has now himself seen a gas attack and a man drown 'under a green sea', and has found out that dying out there in a far off land was a waste of a life and is completely pointless. ... It uses similes such as 'like old beggars under sacks' and 'Bitter as the cud'. ...
What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn? ... When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.' ... Keats then notes that the young man playing the pipe beneath trees must always remain an etched figure on the urn. ... In addition, the young man's love for the maiden will remain forever "warm and still to be enjoy'd F...
They would sigh and quote with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough. ... Yeats then queries the possibility of place among these young sensualists for a man, whose senses have already begun to fail. Yeats describes the old man's state more closely in the second stanza. ... And therefore I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium. ... Byzantium is for Yeats, the heaven of the man's mind. ...
One man is not fortunate enough to get his on in time. The lines, "under a green sea, I saw him drowning" (14) and " . . . before my helpless sight"(15) tell the reader that despite the number of people that are there, there is nothing that can be done to save this man from dying. ... To the speaker of this poem his dreams are filled with the memories of this man chocking and gasping for air. ... He was young then but now considers himself old. ...
The king goes across the sea on a ship, and a storm arises and drowns all aboard. ... Morpheus is to go to the Great Sea (the Mediterranean) and enliven the king's drowned body with his own spirit. ... 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. ... The knight then begins a tirade against Fortune, who turns her wheel at a whim, making him, a man she has favored before, into a miserable wretch. ... Socrates taught that the philosophical man should be above the vagaries of Fortune. ...
Thus when Ginsberg Composes Howl he is merely building a castle from the materials created by those who preceded him Poetry can trace its origins the to origination of Man. ... These poems "are composed in the unrhymed, four-beat alliterative style characteristic of Old English poetry..."... First, they explain the background of the man who would comprise Howl. ...
