It involves the true sight of an animal, and "Where we see the future, he sees all, and sees himself in everything, / he and all, whole always." ... The difference is, Whitman would offer a way to connect with this animal, to share in what it experiences. ... He did write quite a bit about angels, but he used them more as an aloof standard that humanity should attempt to live up to, as well as an interesting comparison to the simple animals, not as a religious figure. ... It is also apparent that since Rilke saw angels (and animals) as such an aloof, impossible standard to live up to, the...

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• Grade Level: High School

The poet compares himself to the yews and so to the death, I think because these animals live underground, and as human being they born and die; moreover he envies "the sullen tree" and "for thy stubborn hardihood" because the tree does not die and in my opinion he imagines to free himself from hishuman nature, represented by the blood, and therefore incorporating himself into nature. ...

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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). ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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