He enjoyed his younger years in Wales, and his later works reflect his desire to relive his happy childhood. ... This passage means that although every man is going to die, love will never die. ... This line means that time is keeping the narrator until it is his time to die. ... Thomas presents a vivid image of how quickly one's life can pass and a universal desire to recapture youth. ... In the last stanza Thomas is talking directly to his dying father. ...

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

I think that he uses the word "provide" to imply that when you are preparing for your death by making "friends," you are only providing yourself with the status that you desire and want. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 1644
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Wine is desired by the speaker in the second stanza as he weaves images of the sunny Mediterranean with the bleak reality of his surroundings. ... 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". ... I feel the idea being presented is that if one truly desires happiness and fulfilment then nature is the only true component that can provide this, it is seen a an enlightening force on an individuals ability to truly feel and understand themselves. ...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom Let me go nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear deliberate disguises Once the poet has experienced dream's kingdom the desire to live in Paradise is much stronger than his desire to remain a member of a "dead land." ... The absolute despair is prevalent when he writes: The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river The hollow man is blind, unable to move forward with any under...

• Word Count: 1435
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Baudelaire's "A Carrion" is a fine example of melancholy, as it is expressed by nature and the natural process of dying and decaying. ... It is then stated that the sun gives back to nature her own gift, a hundredfold of her desire. ... 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 continued in the following two lines where Ghalib speaks of a spring cloud thinning after a rain, and how the cloud died in its own weeping....

• Word Count: 1751
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The Sonnet defines an old man in a relationship with a younger lady who is dying and how much he loves her. ... The narrator desires stand upon accomplishing the description of the aging man with imagery while at the same time demonstrating how little time is left in his romantic love story. ... The plot is defined under the subject of explicit where we know he's dying and that he's leaving. ... She loves him more because he is dying and time is running out. ... "That time of year" is relating to the stage in his life where he is growing old and about to die. ...

• Word Count: 1745
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Hallam is primarily known for being the subject of one of Tennyson's most important works – "In Memoriam"..According to Hallam, the poets of sensation – such as Shelley and Keats, but also Tennyson – compose what may tentatively be called 'true poetry': poetry of which the "predominant motive [is] the desire of beauty" (Hallam 184). ...

• Word Count: 2449
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" is reminiscent of his boyhood on the Long Island shore side, where his desire to be a poet flourished. ... Another section involved a shy woman, the 29th bather, who desires to bathe in the ocean with 28 other men, but is too shy to do so, instead, she observes them. This section incorporates popular Whitman themes such as transcendentalism (the desire and ability of the women to observe allows her to fantasize about the men and to be part of their experience, without interfering with it, and retaining a perspective on it), and of course the the...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The responder understands that the poet sees "the happy lover", as well as the "object of desire", three boughs and the piper creating the music. ... He is the tree that will never go bare, because he died in the spring season of this year. ... However, the hero is still alive and gains the object of which he desires. ...

• Word Count: 1253
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The speaker is caught between his desire to remain still, by the serene beauty of the woods and his contrasting need to live, to return to his responsibilities. ... For instance, "For only Gossamer, my Gown-" "My Tippet-only Tulle-" Her attire alerts us that the she is dying. ... We can feel the last rays of the sun that touch Dickinson's eyes before dying. ...

• Word Count: 1463
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

By stressing the word he shows that the speaker has difficulty relating to the joyful and lighthearted, and therefore cannot find more expressive words or the desire to elaborate more fully. ... For the entirety of one's life, they are dying, and one can only be dead if they once were living. ... 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

Best known for bringing the Imagist Movement to America during the age of Jazz, Amy Lowell also brought forth an undeclared sexual revolution for poetry in America. Born into a wealthy family of scholars in Brookline, Massacusetts she resided on 200 acres of land and was home schooled. In fac...

• Word Count: 2108
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Neruda's father was a railway employee and Neruda's mother died only two months after his birth. ... In, "Here I Love You," Neruda realizes that the sea is both tender and cruel; he recalls memories and past times together with his love, waits for a "reply" but cruelly does not receive one that he so desires. ... Somebody possibly died and some believe there are with them. ...

• Word Count: 1395
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The urn tells of the immortal and the mortal, hatred and desire, virtue and vice. ... Keats did die, yet his name, instead of being erased from life, was carved in gold on the pages of English romantic poetry. ...

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Often children do not consider the consequences of their actions; they act on instinct and desire. ... Unfortunately, Hughes died feeling as though his writing did not help his race, and that his legacy was to be forgotten. ...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This is because two of Frost children died at a young age. ... "From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.... Frost's use of reputation adds much emphases on that fact that there will be a long time before we rest (die). ...

• Word Count: 1771
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He knew the Bible thoroughly, and as a God-intoxicated poet, desired to inaugurate a religion uniting all of humanity in bonds of friendship. ... Before he died, he saw his work finally winning respect and world wide acceptance. ...

• Word Count: 1529
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Some suffocated inside the chimneys they were trying to clean; others grew up stunted and deformed, dying at a young age from cancer or lung diseases. ... The children are free to leap and shout and laugh under the responsible care of the nurse, who watches over the children, indulging their desires, and yet taking care of their physical well being. ...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They will remain ever green and never die. ... " In contrast, Keats says, the love between a man and a woman in the real world is imperfect, bringing pain and sorrow and desire that cannot be fully quenched. ...

• Word Count: 1446
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

A path from romanticism to modernism. The stylistic evolution of Yeats" travels through several stages across his career. Initially as a young poet, Yeats wrote much literary ornate verse. From his first publication in 1885 he"d been much influenced by the pre-Raphaelites. A group of artists a...

• Word Count: 2111
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

By accepting that he will die in the dungeon, the prisoner has essentially lost the will to live. ... The prisoner's life is a conflict that is very easily relatable: the desire to leave a prison and step out into freedom. ...

• Word Count: 1959
• Approx Pages: 8