The isolated "O" and the exclamation put upon the call for the wine suggests a real desperation for any relief from the real world in which he inhabits. ... The speaker's imagination presents to us, I believe, his picture of the very heart of nature, there is a sense of fertility in the language when he speaks of "flowers" at his feet, a "fruit-tree wild" and the "coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine". ... Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion A strong comparison that can be drawn between Lines and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He is most commonly called a twentieth-century Romantic as death and the afterlife intrigued him. ... In "Fern Hill" Thomas explores life and death by recalling actual childhood experiences at his aunt's farmhouse called Fern Hill. ... The third of the four stanzas is written in regards to "wild men". ... The wild men have lived their life to the fullest unlike their counterparts. "Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, / And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way" means that these men have lived without any reserve in their lifestyle, but what they do not realize is the...

• Word Count: 1651
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying. ... The words are wild and joyful, elemental and rugged, inescapable - like the call of the sea. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Shelley begins his poem by addressing the "Wild West Wind" (1). ... The stanzas are made up of interlinking three-line units with the rhyme scheme ababcbcdc, continuing this to the end of the stanza: O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, (a) Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead (b) Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, (a) Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, (b) Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, (c) Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed (b) The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, (c) Each like a corpse within its gr...

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• Grade Level: High School

In stanza 3 he goes on to equate the call of the trumpet with Art. ... Passersby watch, "a wild white face" as "it is carried" into the ambulance. The word "white" illustrates how pale and frail this person may be and "wild" suggest the fear and panic within this person as he is carried into the ambulance not knowing what the future holds. ...

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What wild ecstasy? ... Keats calls the urn an "unravish'd bride of quietness" because it has existed for centuries without undergoing any changes (it is unravished) as it sits quietly on a shelf or table. He also calls it a "foster-child of silence and time" because it is has been adopted by silence and time, parents who have conferred on the urn eternal stillness. ... Keats calls the scene a "cold pastoral!...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of his major innovations was a new metrical form, called "sprung rhythm." ... Another line from the same poem conjures an image very similar " Are sisterly sealed in wild waters- to be blunt, the fate of the nuns on board the ship is sealed! ...

• Word Count: 1414
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

O where's the demon lover, the wild boy who kissed the future to her flesh beneath what skies, what stars, what space! ... Her use of personification also intensifies the mood; this is seen when she calls the flowers "melancholy." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

What wild ecstasy?" ... He actually mentions the appeal of dying when he says, "I have been half in love with easeful Death, / Call"d him soft names in many a mused rhyme / / Now more than ever seems it rich to die" (52-55). ...

• Word Count: 1754
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School