The concept of a dream is also well-ensconced in Van Gogh's artwork, which could imply that the poem, like the artwork, is nothing but a dream; a figment of the poet's delicious imagination. The concept of a dream is also a prominent theme in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and is linked to the strange and dreamlike misadventures that occur in the magical forest of the play. ... One of the many mechanisms that Shakespeare has manifested in A Misummer Night's Dream is the unreliability of time, and how it has a tendency to lose its fluidity within a dream. Perh...

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Lyrical libido refers to the development of the sexual nature in poems as a literary devise using erotic allusion, narrative, or imagery within various poetic structures. ... Yet, the freedom poets now have within these confines is awe striking and can be attributed to their classical predecessors. ... The display of sexual implausibility and abnormality-within the walls of Herrick's fantasy-does not serve to deter the woman. ... The final six lines pull the reader out of the dream as fast as the ejaculation brings a man out of fantasy after a wet dream. This ending provides a comedic re...

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The tigers of course symbolize the freedom of spirit that she dreams of attaining but never achieves except in her dreams and her art. ... In addition, the verb prance' is also used symbolically in the poem, both in the first stanza of the poem to describe the tigers in Aunt Jennifer's screen, and in the final line of the poem to create a proud, strong image of the tigers; so fittingly symbolic of Aunt Jennifer's dreams and desires for herself. ... By starting the poem with the tigers and ending with the tigers, the poet is containing the real life within the fantasy life, t...

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As readers, we can see these strengths brilliantly manifested within the poetry and that Keats has a preoccupation with the impossibility of possessing reality. ... The poetry itself is a catalyst for Keats's obvious intentions between two opposing escapisms- into unconsciousness and into a painful acceptance of intense life- is replayed within the poetry with immediate effect. ... "Was it a vision, or a waking dream? ... As scepticism reasserts itself, the poet is drawn back from the timelessness of the dream and into the temporal. ... What becomes obvious in reading these poems is Keats...

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So much has been written about "Fern Hill" :- the other writers that might have influenced Thomas; the positioning of the poem within the writer's oeuvre; his tortuous creative methodology (rewrite upon holistic rewrite), that we sometime can lose sight of the essence of the work. ... , I can see the places Dylan recalls, I can hear the sounds, I can share the elation and dreams, I can feel the sun, I can notice the colours and fruit, I can lament the passing of my own childhood. ... As noted within my analysis of "A Visit to Grandpa's":- 'As we peer back into our own childh...

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Dramatic Irony is a situation in which the reader or audience knows more about the immediate circumstances or future events of a story than a character within it; thus the audience is able to see a discrepancy between characters' perceptions and the reality they face. ... Various methods can be used, including memories, dream sequences, stories or narration by characters, or even authorial sovereignty. ... End-rhymes are words at the end of successive lines that rhyme with each other: Internal rhymes are rhyming words within a line. ... An internal conflict is a problem within a charac...

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This can be interpreted as an indirect denial of Al-Magaleh to Eliot's influence, especially the latter's concept of "the Objective Correlative. " Al-Magaleh believes that a modern poet usually " ... search for an objective correlative from within historic events and ancient myths that tune with [a poet's] emotions and thoughts," in other words, a poet's borrowings are to convey the gloominess and dullness associated with complicated urban life. ... The first issue, the revolution, being the poet's biggest dream, is believed to be the only remedy for all problems, eve...

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Tom Dacre's dream shows just how horrible this life was for the boys by contrasting it with what they should have been doing at this tender stage in their lives: 'leaping' and 'laughing' in the sunshine. ... Another example of the binary oppositions within the collection of poems can be found in the two Nurse's Songs'. ... Her heart is at rest within her breast', and she is glad to hear the hills echoing with the children's laughter. ...

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This was clearly indicated at the beginning of the play when he said that he had hatched fiendish plots through drunken prophecies and dreams to set his brother George and the king in deadly hate against each other (1.1.32-35) to initiate a family feud, which would subsequently prevent George of Clarence from being a potential successor to the throne. ... His dream was coming true (Shakespeare & Crowther 280). ...

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