Her husband squandered the family's fortune and eventually died in poverty in France. ... Lord Byron courted his distant cousin, Mary Chaworth, during the summer of 1803. ... His mother died in Newstead in August before he could reach her. ... Byron left Allegra in a school when he left and she died the following year. ... Lord Byron died around six o"clock in the evening on April 19, 1824. ...
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...
Victor became so engrossed in his work that he even let summer months slip by and did not maintain contact with his family. ... The summer months passed while I was thus engaged" (41). ... Walton says, "These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased the regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life" (Shelley 29). ... Mary's first child was born 2 months premature and died after only a few days of life. ...
Her mother died early and her father rejected her as a young adult. ... The extreme focus on his work can be seen through his own words: "The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit" (Shelley 33). ... Stranded in the ice, he agrees to abandon the expedition for the safety of his people: "The die is cast I have consented to return, if we are not destroyed. ... He survives, but Frankenstein dies. ... Choose community and live, choose isolation and die. ...
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...
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. ...
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-....
She was immature and acted irrationally and died as a result of her own foolishness. ... The reality of the Romanticism comes when she tells Adele that the summer spent on Grand Isle made her feel like that free-spirited child again. ... But as the summer drew to a close and the visitors at Grand Isle returned home to the city, Chopin offers much evidence of Romanticism. ...
