the form is divided into three quatrains and a couplet. ... demonstrates this in lines 9-14: But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ... Shakespeare depicts this tone with images of sunny summer days, heaven, gold, and nature as a whole. ... Frost portrays a smooth sound of the narrator's journey through the city in order t...

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These three poems that share this common theme are "After a Journey,"" "The Haunter,"" and "Your Last Drive."" ... I am just the same as when Our days were a joy, and our paths through flowers. ... Ramazani's criticism of "After a Journey- just doesn't seem right. ... Yes, I companion him to places Only dreamers know, Where the shy hares print long paces, Where the night rooks go; Into old aisles where the past is all to him, Close as his shade can do, Always lacking the power to call him, Near as I reach thereto! ... "The Haunter- by Thomas Hardy is a poem about a fr...

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A couple of days ago I was cleaning out my now unused study - recently I have been finding other places to write, my bed, the bathroom, even in the bath, as the portability of the laptop proves very convenient - and I stumbled upon a book, well read, yet discarded in my 'old age'. ... Here the persona is middle aged and is confronting her father"'"s age and mortality '"'your marvellous journey"'"s done'"'. ... The yearning is heightened by the number of single syllable words in the final stanzas, such as he...

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It is this creative set up that carries the reader through to "33," a long poem that takes up the vast majority of the collection. ... It is in this way in which the reader is led on a journey through confusion, unrest, turmoil, uncertainty, and, finally, blissfully tainted childhood. ... That poet at Lucinda's party the night before argued that no matter how much of it one lost, in the midst of some profound emotion, one would revert to one's mother tongue What language did she love in (How 16)?" ...

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He also tells her not to remain in sorrow too long. ... Since Juno was, among other things, the goddess of wives and of marriage, she would welcome a pious wife (now widow) into her service. ... Once he finally falls into a deep sleep, his dream is so fantastic that it apparently defies description. ... The knight then begins a tirade against  Fortune, who turns her wheel at a whim, making him, a man she has favored before, into a miserable wretch. ... The king's hunting party goes off toward a long castle, and a bell tolls twelve hours, the time allotted to the knight to tell his tale....

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(Breslin 225) However, "Throughout the long history, poetry has relied on evolving rules about what a poem is, with new kinds of poetry building on earlier kinds to create greater possibilities of expression"(qtd in Where the Arts Live n pag.). ... The book retells of the journeys of the group across the country for a period of three years. ... A "howl" is a prolonged instinctive animal cry and Ginsberg's poem forcefully depicts the sense of a "sudden, angry eruption of instincts long thwarted, of the release of excluded human and literary energies"(Breslin, 227). ... Upon entering high...

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The twentieth century has seen more and more of this broadening of artistic trends, extending into the other cultural forms of radio, television, cinema and popular music. ... Modernism is essentially post-Darwinian: it is a search to explain mankind's place in the modern world, where religion, social stability and ethics are all called into question. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. The year 1900 marked only a chronological entry into the twentieth century; many of the new tones of voice, the ne...

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