From the start of the first quatrain, the persona declares his lover unappealing-- "In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note - (Lines 1-2) The beginning line is rather deceitful because Shakespeare's pattern from previous sonnets continues with either an explanation of the persona's blind love that goes beyond physical beauty or the persona's love which withstands the test of time and aging beauty; however the second line unexpectedly continues by the persona stating that his lover has "a thousand- faults. ... In the second quatrain, ...

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Thomas tries to make us, as adults, feel as he feels - he knows that all adults share one common experience at least - we were all once children, so that:- we were all once delighted - none of us, as children, ever valued those fleeting pleasures within a greater whole - we are all nostalgic for something, someone or somewhere. ... Six nine-line regular stanzas contain assonance rhyme schemes (abcddabcd) so subtle that one is almost unaware of being gently manipulated into such a subliminal sense of order. ... "Now" implies the immediacy of the reversion of the poet back to childhood - in ...

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The poem begins on a depressing note, "Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, this lime-tree bower my prison!... "So my Friend struck with weep joy may stand, as I have stood silent with swimming sense; yeah, gazing round on the wide landscape, gaze till all doth seem less gross than bodily; and of such hues as veil the Almighty Spirit" (p. 808, line 37-39). ... Whitman blends reminiscence with a sense of purpose in the poem as well, basically ennobling it, again reflecting Romantic influence. ... Hence, the Romantic aspects in Crossing Brooklyn Ferry include an idealizat...

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Generally, imagery includes all kinds of sense perception (not just visual pictures). ... Note that the connection between sound and pronunciation is sometimes rather a product of imagination and also that written language retains an aural quality, so that even unspoken your writing has a sound to it. ... The most common metric unit is the iambic foot, in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one. ... A line with five feet is called pentameter; thus, a line of five iambs is known as "iambic pentameter" (the most common metrical form in English poetry). ... A drama may co...

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Yet we sense that there is no real hatred on Pope's part for this society, his satire is quite gentle in comparison to his later works and this, too, is reflected in his use of the supernatural machinery. ... Whilst on one hand they are representative of the coquettish young ladies of Augustan society, in the mock-heroic sense they mimic the role of the gods in the Greek and Roman epic traditions. ... They are described, for example, as "the light militia of lower sky" , an obvious reference to military formations that would have been a common feature of the classic epic genre. We ...

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It was a must to note that language is a human creation contained cultural heritages of linguistic group. ... Literature "organized violence committed on ordinary speech" (Eagleton) While the definition of literature has been widely disputed throughout history, British literary theorist, Terrence Eagleton, attempts to make sense of it all during the introduction of his 1983 book, What is Literature. He described literature as, "imaginative writing in the sense of fiction" (Eagleton 1). If one then believes that 'writing in the sense of fiction' is the meaning of literatur...

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Writing about sex, (the) human body, many other "taboo" subjects and common objects and people, Whitman and Dickinson address the larger matters of life, namely death and religion. ... The conclusive paragraph draws on the common motifs to Whitman and Dickinson in the poems analyzed. ... The negative account of other, pedestrian speech forms, like the admission of naturally superior discourse , is not only a way of recognizing (and sharing one's recognition) of a reality that lies beyond ordinary words, but also of communicating a sense of appropriate restraint in one's o...

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