The following analysis investigate, separately, a passage from Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Emily Dickinson's poem 334 -see Appendix- focusing on thematic contents and on the formal aspects which lead to their interpretation. ... Her letters, like flowers often enclosed, are the result of Emily's work and care and, like flowers, have a symbolic connotation. ... This can be deduced particularly through the analysis of two stylistic elements: the demonstrative pronoun "this", at the end of the second line, and the synesthesia in lines 4 and 5. ... Erotic conn...

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Dickinson's level of descriptiveness in these passages helps to evoke the weariness and weight of winter; the kind of light you get in "winter afternoons oppresses, like the heft Of cathedral tunes" (lines 2-4). ... This shows light to be incredibly oppressive, like a heavy blanket weighing you down and giving you no reprieve. ... In this way, Dickinson translates the atmospheric nature of her prose to larger philosophical issues like life's meaning and the nature of death. In the final stanza, death's chill is described with great effect by Dickinson; "everyone pays a...

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As noted within my analysis of "A Visit to Grandpa's":- 'As we peer back into our own childhood we sift and filter our memories so that the ones portraying our contentment or delight predominate - we remember sunny holidays, visits, happy places, treats, Christmases, presents. ... "Yes", we mutter unconsciously to ourselves, "that was like it was; that could be me; that was how I used to feel; I knew people like those people; I remember places just like his places; I was frightened by those things too; I found that difficult to understand as well"'. ... The "sun", in all...

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'You do not do, you do not do/ Any more, black shoe/ In which I have lived like a foot/ For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breath or Achoo', is the opening description provided by Plath of her circumstances in 'Daddy'. ... In this case, Hughes, the vampire 'who said he was you', is shown to have 'drank my blood for a year/ Seven years if you want to know.' ... In this case, like a phoenix, 'Out of the Ashes/ I rise with my red hair/ And I eat men like air.' ... This theme of worship is furthered in several other poems in B...

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The final line-- "Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote- has a pun on the word "view,"" which sounds similar to "you."" ... As the persona points out, his lover does not have a delightful tune, and when read, the line sounds much like a tune, mainly because of the alliteration-- "thy tongue's tune,"" and the extra syllable emphasizes that idea of imperfection. ... The tone however, is much like the first quatrain, which is hopelessness. In the heroic couplet, the persona tries to justify (my addiction to you is something I consider advantageous because you give me torment) ...

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In the second stanza HE begins with the dawn of a new day in which the poet uses imagery to make the reader perceive the beginning of the day with an orange sky, the aftermath of the storm is slightly exaggerated as the poet describes the mountains as having shifted places, the wind is causing lightning which is twitching, contracting and spreading all over the sky for which the poet uses a metaphor "like the lens of a mad eye". ... The wind again picks up speed and is now so powerful that the fields start quivering and the sky seems like it may vanish any moment with a bang. The win...

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All these distinctions between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. ...

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