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." ... He never enters that space whereby the piano player is speaking for him, giving utterance to his loneliness. ... The poem's structure enables this reading, if only because the speaker "quotes" the lyrics, but never allows his own voice to give...

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From the start of the first quatrain, the persona declares his lover unappealing-- "In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note - (Lines 1-2) The beginning line is rather deceitful because Shakespeare's pattern from previous sonnets continues with either an explanation of the persona's blind love that goes beyond physical beauty or the persona's love which withstands the test of time and aging beauty; however the second line unexpectedly continues by the persona stating that his lover has "a thousand- faults. ... Unlike a traditional bea...

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Cummings reached the height of his popularity during the 1940s and 1950s, giving poetry readings to college audiences across the United States until his death in 1962. ... In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958), and the posthumously published 73 Poems (1963)--Cummings effects a softer, more elegiac note, recalling his early affinity for New England Transcendentalism and English Romanticism. ...

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This tactic allows for the guaranteed: "when" she gives in he will continue with the confidence that he has recently acquired. ... Now, if the lady is intelligent, as he seems to be, she will note the reference to the shame, sin, loss of virginity and the possible pregnancy. ...

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The subject's blessings and difficulties are not limited to what his power attracts, but include that which it enables him to give-and power has made him most certainly wealthy. ... Indeed, the meter sets the melancholic tone of the poem, ending each line on an unaccented syllable and, quite literally, a "down note". ...

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The final stanza reinforces the idea that change can be positive and that noting should ever stay the same. ... Migrant Hostel is a poem that engages the changing of perspectives of not only migrants, but also gives the responder the opportunity to view the stereotypical behavior towards migrants in the 1950. ...

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Here the sweep's unfeeling sanctimonious parents have clothed him in the clothes of death and taught him to sing the notes of woe. ... Repetition in the first and last couplet of each stanza makes these lines into a refrain, and helps to give the poem its song-like quality. ... The companion to this poem, found in the Songs of Experience, is The Tyger - read together, the two poems give a perspective on religion that includes the good and clear as well as the terrible and inscrutable. ...

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Personification heightens a reader's emotional response to what is being described by giving it human qualities and therefore human significance. ... Note that the connection between sound and pronunciation is sometimes rather a product of imagination and also that written language retains an aural quality, so that even unspoken your writing has a sound to it. ...

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Therefore, the new generation of poets rose in a protest against the cultural values and traditions of the Victorian Age, trying to give English poetry a new creative urge. ... In 1936 the poet even attached Notes on the Waste Land to the edition in order to explain the work's many quotations and allusions. ...

• Word Count: 1915
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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure...

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What is literature? We have to answer some basic questions when we study theory of literature. What is literature? What is literary study? Are they both different? What is the distinction? These questions are followed by the questions about the nature of literature, its functions, etc. Theory of lit...

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The word 'Vase' from the letter (note capitalization)as "an open container, often used to hold cut flowers " (www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ ) can be interpreted, according to the metaphor meaning explained above, as a request for Eudocia to open herself to a new poem, a new 'flower'. ... As Eberwein claims, such a metaphor superbly exemplifies Dickinson's ability to give expression to sensory experience through transference from one sensorial sphere to another. ...

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