One story I remember the most was one she told about when he passed away; she thought they would grow old together, and a part of her soul died along with him. ... Shakespeare's "Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day?... He writes, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ... " (l. 1-2) The speaker tries to differentiate his beloved and the summer. ... (Wadsworth 505) Summer represents heat and compare're his lover's beauty to the summer and how his lovers remaining youthfulness and her beauty will never fade away. ...

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I feel that the speaker is implying that he is somehow less alive than the bird; he states that he has "sunk" toward the mythical river of death "Lethe", and sits in admiration and jealousy at the nightingale's ability to celebrate the presence of summer with a song sang with "full-throated ease". ... It is here that the speaker tells us that he is extremely fond of the idea of dying here and jong nature: "Now more than ever seems it rich to die". ... During these years spent without visiting the Wye the summers have passed with the length "of five long winters". ... I get the impress...

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He says that it is, "[singing] of summer in full-throated ease," (10) and that he wants to, " forget / What [the nightingale] among the leaves hast never known," (21-22). ... When the season of darkness ends, the world comes alive with "the coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, / The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves." (49-50) He knows that although it is very difficult to believe that good exists in such a harsh world, beauty will inevitably resurface. ... For the entirety of one's life, they are dying, and one can only be dead if they once were living. ... He actually mentions ...

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I interpret this quote to mean that as long as you die with people by your side, you are dying dignified, even if those next to you are not truly your friends. ... He describes this striving for status: "Die early and avoid the fate. / Or if predestined to die late, / Make up your mind to die in state" (7-9). He tells those that are fated to die late to make a choice to die with status, as if it is a choice to be made. ... The "I" is repeated in "mind" and "die." ... This shows selfishness for those that want to die with airs. ...

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While this man is indeed giving her a flower, it is a dying flower. The flower symbolizing their love which is dying because she is married. In the second stanza her find out this other lover has died. ... Not in that death is romantic, but that love is proved through dying. ... Even though the poem is set up to give the reader a beautiful late summer day by mentioning strawberries, you later get a sense of the pain and sadness that is in this graveyard also. ...

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Baudelaire's "A Carrion" is a fine example of melancholy, as it is expressed by nature and the natural process of dying and decaying. ... The poem begins with what appears to be a couple walking along during a nice summer day, and there they saw the object that was the dead animal that was laying belly up on the side of the road with its legs spread like a prostitute. ... This brings about the realization that we are all to die, and nothing can be done to prevent it. ... This means that the same thing will happen to us when we die, we will be given back to Nature. ... The gloominess is co...

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Whitman was born May 31, 1819 in Long Island, New York and died in 1892 (Baym 2076). ... " Towards the end of "Song of Myself" as Whitman writes about dying is a different kind of death, he wrote "And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier." The phase seems to say that any death is better than dying from old age. ... While the style and structure of Whitman's poem "Song of Myself" begins with him "observing a spear of summer grass"(Baym 24) and ends with I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow myself from the grass I love,If ...

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For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid; Therefore, not loath, we lie out here, therefore were born, For love of God seems dying. ... However, the ironic ambiguity of last line, 'for love of God is dying, is Owen's way of questioning the nature of that love of God', which is supposed to inspire their civilization and justify the war' (Breen 184). ... Perhaps the line is saying that God's love for creation is dying. ...

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Throughout the stanza, there is broad usage of reflective similes: "As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled-; These insubstantial elements of nature and memory are designed to illustrate the this power as something that is comparable to nature in beauty, but yet is somehow beyond human reach (Brewer, Hymn to 988). ... Thus, implying that the power has to stay within people in order for death to become a "dying flame-....

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They have used it as a metaphor for virtually all human emotions-his stormy brow, her sky blue eyes, as wild as a summer storm. ... "This poem portrays in a metaphorical manner the constant awareness by men that they must die; and it does this without appealing to the pity or horror acquainted with death."" ...

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