By way of the following quote, Wordsworth criticizes conventional religious orders as well as scientific thinking: "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers, little we see in Nature that is ours: we have given our hearts away a sordid boon!... In yet another quote, Wordsworth expresses his disgust for controlled and limited thinking brought on by religious dogma: "Great God! ... The verses quoted clearly reflect Wordsworth's belief that conventional religious organizations were not only responsible for mankind's state of depravity, but that those same organizations wer...

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" The repetition of the word, "body," within the quote, "Body and nobody," connotes the physical and spiritual levels of a relationship, depicting the sleeper's ability to fully trust the sleep that will embrace them. ... Heightened through protective imagery within the quote, "carry you and ferry you," an image of a mother's protective nature when it comes to their child is explicitly demonstrated. ... This protective image is further emphasised through the quote, "consume you, engulf you" as it connotes a mother being one with their chil...

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" This quote is pretty self-evident. ... This quote makes up stanzas 2,4, and 6. Those are perfect positions to place the quote since it is a reminder of Angelou's point right after an impactful example and only intensifies a reader's emotional reflection on Angelou's words. ... From these two quotes in Angelou's interview, an individual can see Angelou's true down-to earth nature and this shows how much Angelou cares for the public for the greater good. ...

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Hughes's aesthetic works out a trope that brings internality and externality into a state of opposition. One sees an example of how this unfolds in "The Weary Blues." The speaker in the poem documents the experience of listening to a piano player in Harlem play the blues. Steven Tracy's compelling a...

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As the narrator walks home, he observes that he looks "not to bright for a nigger, and not to dark-; this quote illustrates the inferiority of "niggers- and clarifies that discrimination concentrates on the race and appearance of people, and disregards their personality. ...

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John Donne, one of the infamous Metaphysical Poets, is known to some only by random quotes such as "for whom the bell tolls" or "no man is an island", but to others he is as important a writer as Shakespeare and thus has been valued as such in many forms. ...

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Myth plays an extremely essential role in modern literature. It is used by poets, novelists and playwrights in varying degrees to indirectly draw attention to given situations in their societies, criticize and seek correcting them so as to improve their communities' conditions of life. Sometimes, it...

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Notice how the volta of the sonnet stresses the transition between the sestet and octave, for it signals the move from proposition to resolution and changes the focus of the sonnet: "I knew one who had lifted it" ("Sonnet" 7), but, even though in the quoted line we are presented a change of focus from a detached voice to the poetic "I", our attention is shifted again from the poetic "I" to a third person, "one". ...

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