STRUCTURE AND CONTENT In the first quatrain; the poet is addressing time. ... It offers us examples of the ravages of time. ... His fierceness was abated by the passing of time. ... The poet recognises in this way the destructive power of Time. ... The furrows, (lines and wrinkles, as in a ploughed field),made by time in love's fair brow, are symbolic of the ageing process. ...
The "wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you"" (10-11). ... "(Chouinard, paragraph 16) Chouinard uses a simile to compare Neruda's work to the craftsmanship of one of the finest artists of all time. He is proclaimed the most renowned "Spanish writers of all time"(New York Times)....
Every time that the speaker seems to be finding some sort of rehabilitation, another step towards internal happiness, she seems to have some form of relapse. ... "Little/ Stalk without wrinkle," Line 6 & 7. ... Plath argues to those who have a difficult time understanding the definition of a mental illness, that depression has the potential to have an immense toll on one's life. ... It is not something that can always be cured with time, or love. ...
His personification of time, the "phantoms of a thousand hours- shows he believes in the omnipotence and surrounding nature of the power. ... In this stanza, Shelley makes it clear that adulthood is a time of apathy and passive behavior. ... The face is "Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read- (4-6). ... - (9-11), meaning that some time ago, a statue of a great man stood here, but yet over the years the magnificent statue has been reduced to rubble. ...
Haunted by her past, Julia Alvarez has portrayed her immigrant experience as both painful and ambiguous. Her love of language and need to understand it has molded her life as an English professor and acclaimed author (Contemporary 1). However, a chronological study of several of her works exposes a disturbing path in her writing. Homecoming, Alvarez's first publication, is a collection of poems that barely even hint that she is in fact Hispanic. The publication has only one poem that hints of color and only one Spanish word. ...
