For instance the idea of yearning and desire for youth can be linked with the ideas conveyed in "Sailing to Byzantium" (1926) where the use of negative imagery of an old man reinforces the desire of the persona to maintain his youth. ... The image of a withered old man is described as "a tattered coat upon a stick" and is a clear negatively portrayed image of an elderly man, which implies the desire for youth. The poem is concerned with this repeated idea and this is illustrated further with the image of Yeats" heart yearning for his youth, but sadly trapped inside a "dying animal." The image ...

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Hallam is primarily known for being the subject of one of Tennyson's most important works – "In Memoriam"..According to Hallam, the poets of sensation – such as Shelley and Keats, but also Tennyson – compose what may tentatively be called 'true poetry': poetry of which the "predominant motive [is] the desire of beauty" (Hallam 184). ...

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He realises the transitory nature of human life; and by the end of stanza six recognises that the Nightingale would not cease to sing if he were to die "Still wouldst thou sing, an I have ears in vain- To thy high requiem become a sod." ... In Ode to a Nightingale the illusive object which is inherently desired, is at last attained. The poem allows Keats to "transcend his imprisoning self hood to sympathetic contemplation of other lives" hence, it can be revealed that in presenting the reader with vivid sensuous delights and concurrently presenting a harrowing image of the transience of human ...

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His poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" is reminiscent of his boyhood on the Long Island shore side, where his desire to be a poet flourished. ... Another section involved a shy woman, the 29th bather, who desires to bathe in the ocean with 28 other men, but is too shy to do so, instead, she observes them. This section incorporates popular Whitman themes such as transcendentalism (the desire and ability of the women to observe allows her to fantasize about the men and to be part of their experience, without interfering with it, and retaining a perspective on it), and of course the the...

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In writing poetry, poets use a number of archetypical images and symbols to develop an attitude that they desire the speaker to portray. ... The speaker refers to her virginity as a "quaint honor" making it sound that the honor in preserving her virginity is insignificant and it will be no longer anything once she dies. ... The third stanza also shifts, to him telling her what he wants to happen between them with the passion that he desire for them to have for one another. ...

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This fact is accentuated by the fact that the presence of the hawk leads them simply to "yield"- the threat of danger and dying merely serves to bring them closer together. ... She uses images full of vitality which appeal to the senses to imply her lack of any fear of dying: the green grass above me with showers and dewdrops wet". ... Her bleak and definitive statements such as "When I am dead" show her resignation to the fact that she will one day die, and the way she copes with this is by persuading her lover not to be saddened by it when it does happen. ...

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Some suffocated inside the chimneys they were trying to clean; others grew up stunted and deformed, dying at a young age from cancer or lung diseases. ... The children are free to leap and shout and laugh under the responsible care of the nurse, who watches over the children, indulging their desires, and yet taking care of their physical well being. ...

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