When analysis of Yeats" works is undertaken, especially when discussing Yeats" ideas and thoughts expressed through his poetry, it is often useful to consider the context of the poems. ... As part of Yeats" obsession with history in his poetry, a common idea among many of Yeats" poems is that the ordinary and seemingly insignificant aspects of life can lead to sweeping historical changes and the ends of epochs. ... The idea of the ordinary and seemingly insignificant is reinforced with imagery of the every day, such as in the passage, "Quiet the dog, tether the pony/To a distant post." ... How...

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The term could further underscore a crucial theme of the poem, as fire, in the context of love, is generally associated with passion. ... In the context of love, the author could possibly assert that love is more authentic and more surreal when experienced first-hand, and poetry based on love can be somewhat limiting. ... Perhaps the structure and diction of the poem, which Duffy retains incredibly succinct, can be equated to represent the unusual mechanism of time in a dream, and how it seems to lose its normal gist of fluidity in the context of a dream. ...

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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 opening stanza, the familiar image of a foot ...

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