" Thus the reader can therefore draw parallels between the definition of empathy and the intertextuality that Duffy is perceived to have employed in the poem. 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 mechanis...

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However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." By looking at her use of language, imagery, themes and her addressee I shall explore to what extent I agree with the statement that the work of Rosetti leans towards the "Dark Side." ... "A Dream" is a biographical poem which charts the events of a dream which the speaker has had about her and her lover. ... In line 11, the speaker makes the connection between their dream and reality by saying "I thoug...

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As both poets have different opinions about war, in fact, almost opposite opinions, each poet uses different types of diction, figurative language, imagery, sounds, and tones to achieve his purpose. ... The diction as used by Rupert Brooke in The Soldier, is plain and non-descriptive, but calming and peaceful, for example, "washed by rivers", "blest by suns of home", "dreams happy as her day" and "hearts at peace". ... While, Wilfred Owen, in Dulce Et Decorum Est, uses many metaphors, such as "thick green light" and "under a green sea, I saw him drowning." ... In the second stanza of Dulce Et ...

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Yet, the freedom poets now have within these confines is awe striking and can be attributed to their classical predecessors. ... (NIV, Song of Songs 4:16) In the fifth stanza, the resolution of love is complete: "I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride;/I have gathered my myrrh with my spice./I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey;/I have drunk my wine and my milk" (NIV, Song of Songs 5:1). ... Even when "About her head, [the speaker] writhing hung,And with rich clusters (hid among the leaves) her temples I behungLucia seemed to [the speaker]/Young Bacchus ravished by h...

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, 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. ... "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 main verb within this single-sentence stanza is "let" i.e.:- because I was a carefree child ("young and ea...

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Away for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But not on the viewless wings of Poesy". ... 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." ... "Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music- Do I wake or sleep?" ... As scepticism reasserts itself, the poet is drawn back from the timelessness of the dream and into the temporal. ...

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I will attempt to explain the effects these elements have on literature. ... Many of the fictional stories and that we have read throughout this semester have contained a great deal of imagery. ... Various methods can be used, including memories, dream sequences, stories or narration by characters, or even authorial sovereignty. ... Two things I have acquired from this class are that there is more to literature than just plays, poems, and nonfiction stories. ... The literary terms and rhetorical devices that I have described help makeup the literary world. ...

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It's not hard for someone to get sick through eating something spoiled or having some sort of a disease; however, the sickness that penetrates the knight is supernatural. ... As the speaker finds the knight in a pathetic condition with a hint of a "fading rose" (11) on knight's cheek, the speaker is curious about what have happened to him. ... However, in the seventh stanza Keats makes a vivid transition in the knight's explanation of the story, when before the three stanzas start with "I"(the knight), the next three stanzas start with the woman taking action...

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Tom is also promised that he'd have God for his father, and never want joy'. ... 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. ... When the narrator asks him where his parents are, he simply replies that they have 'both gone up to the church to pray'. He then tells how they sold him to be a chimney sweep but still refuses to accept that they have done him any wrong. ... I believe The lamb&...

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An apparent pattern in "Infant Joy" is the repetition of phrases – " 'What shall I call thee?'... " (Line 6), " 'Sweet joy I call thee'" (Line 9), and " 'Sweet joy befall thee.'... Not only do the two poems have different perspectives and diction, they are also constructed differently. Although both poems have two stanzas, the rhyme schemes are different. ... Then, he further comforts Tom that his dream foretells a delightful life. ...

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The author subsequently presents him to have abnormal powers to explore the earth and heavens from a chariot drawn by dragons, and he is seen flying to Rome, where there is a celebration to honor St. ... This ambition of gaining power and authority over others makes him similar to Doctor Faustus in Marlowe's play, who also sold his soul only to have power for 24 years. ... 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...

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