"Bringing", "picking", "zipping", "tagging", and "giving" once again provide a horrible contrast between the living and the dead, as the verbs indicate the vibrance and life of those bringing home the dead lifeless bodies. Furthering this methodical sense is the repetition of "they"re", which detaches the living from the dead and shows the lack of compassion which is afforded to those who have died for our country, building the image of the mass quantity of the dead. ... Where "dogs in the frozen sunset" are these dead soldiers only greeting shows again, the lack of respect they are given a...

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The foremost section of the poem introduces the seemingly routine task of transporting dead bodies as if it were trivial. ... Additionally the word 'them', integrated so casually, supports the dehumanizing tone intended to display detachment of the living from the dead. ... 'Bringing', 'picking', 'zipping', 'tagging', and 'giving' once again provide a horrible contrast between the living and the dead, as the verbs, as simple as they are, indicate the vibrancy and liveliness of those bringing home the dead, lifeless bodies. ... This m...

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This rising tension is also developed through the sentence structure as the first two sentences are relatively short and they build tension by revealing a serious situation of a dead infant being found in the waters. ... "But I'm sure/As she stood in the shallows/ Ducking him tenderly/Till the frozen knobs of her wrists/Were dead as the gravel,/He was a minnow with hooks/Tearing her open" (6-12). ... However by using the word "tenderly" and by using metaphors to illustrate both the physical and emotional pain the mother experienced, "the frozen knobs of her wri...

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In my view, the poem works out Hughes's apprehension, his feeling that his ability to understand the emotions that generated this form of artistic expression was not on a par with the expression itself This is indicated by the last line of the poem, where the speaker notes that the piano player "slept like a rock or a man that's dead." ... From "Dead Rocks and Sleeping Men: Aurality in the Aesthetic of Langston Hughes," in The Langston Hughes Review....

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In the section where the child asks the speaker what grass is, he proceeds to explain his symbolism of the grass that utilizes themes of nature (nature's cycles of rebirth and regeneration), a theme of unity and the democracy that runs the country (grass grows everywhere and links everyone's yards together as a whole), and a symbol of death or mortality (grass grows from the ground fertilized by the dead soldiers of the Civil War). ... "Drum Taps", another poem collection written from Whitman's reaction to the Civil War, speaks about the futility and ignorance of men pitting th...

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This further signifies to how the persona has no sense which links to how there is no blood in the anonymous, it is to be dead. Therefore, implying to how the persona is internally dead and has no emotions of any kind. ...

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A well-known example is his work in The Draft Horse: a narrative poem that at a first glance, is simply about a random act of violence where two people travelling through "a pitch-dark limitless grove" (4) are suddenly approached by an unknown man who "came out of the trees took our horse by the head [and] deliberately stabbed him dead.... The narrative flow of the poem is continuous until the moment the horse is "stabbed dead" (8). ...

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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." ... The description of the actual bodies of the dead birds is extremely poignant as the "snow-white plumage flecked with crimson drops" is noted. ... 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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Throughout American history, various authors, journalists, and poets, have been recalled to have changed the view of American society. But one of these poets emerges from this group of people; an influential poet of the 19th century was Walt Whitman, author of the famous poems, "Leaves of Grass," an...

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So much has been written about "Fern Hill" :- the other writers that might have influenced Thomas; the positioning of the poem within the writer's oeuvre; his tortuous creative methodology (rewrite upon holistic rewrite), that we sometime can lose sight of the essence of the work. For me, this is a ...

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Yeats' description of landscape seems to show that there is no distinction between the real and the mythical as he seems intent on hanging onto the "Romantic Ireland" by exploring a sinister world of superstition and old mythology, but Yeats later admits in his poem "September 1913" that Ireland is "dead and gone" along with its brave heroes of the past. ...

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Sunflower Sutra Sunflower Sutra is one of the most effective yet simultaneously beautiful stream of consciousness pieces that is available. Sunflower Sutra is effective both in packaging and shipping the message of Allen Ginsberg and in painting a picture that stimulates listeners to action thro...

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Wordsworth, on the other hand, was born into a privileged household and was extremely well educated; whilst he may not have always been rich, he was certainly always financially secure and though his parents were both dead by his early teens, he enjoyed a very close, lifelong relationship with his sister, Dorothy. ...

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In Wright's poetry, the observer and the landscape – "man as part of nature" (Wright interview, 1965) – serve to share important messages about the way we have interacted and continue to interact with our environment. Wright's understanding of the relationship between humans and the land reflect...

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The famous poet William Shakespeare once said "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" and his words couldn't be any truer for the work of 17th century English poet Thomas Carew. Whether you refer to his poem as "A Song" or "Ask Me No More," Carew revolutionizes the love poem and redefines be...

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In the third and final stanza of Dulce Et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen uses words and phrases such as, "smothering dreams", "we flung him in", "writhing in his face", "hanging face", "froth-corrupted lungs", which mainly is about how the dead soldier looked like and how his body was treated, and that it was what the writer constantly dreamed about. ...

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