Another comparison made by Larkin is between his desire for isolation and modern society's desire for material goods. He is uncomplimentary towards these people suggesting that they are shallow in their desires. ... This desire for the isolation of the natural world isn't something he shares with other people. ... Larkin describes the desires of the occupants of the city as 'cheap suits.....driers'. ... Larkin describes 'the boy', 'a pensioner', 'dying smokers' and 'going dark' to describe a progression from young to old age. ...

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Amongst the "indelicate" themes interpreted within Goblin Market are homosexuality, incest, drug addiction and the pain of rejected sexual desire. ... It is her subconscious desire for her flamboyant brother Dante Gabriel; because of this universal emotion, this incest-driven reading is possible. ... Since Rossetti spent most of her life as a professed invalid she must have known the effects of certain kinds of opium; in the very least, she certainly would have observed the effects of opiates upon her sister-in-law, Lizzie Siddal who died of an overdose of laudanum. ... Jeanie, who had givin...

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He realises the transitory nature of human life; and by the end of stanza six recognises that the Nightingale would not cease to sing if he were to die "Still wouldst thou sing, an I have ears in vain- To thy high requiem become a sod." ... In Ode to a Nightingale the illusive object which is inherently desired, is at last attained. The poem allows Keats to "transcend his imprisoning self hood to sympathetic contemplation of other lives" hence, it can be revealed that in presenting the reader with vivid sensuous delights and concurrently presenting a harrowing image of the transience of human ...

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In her dream, Alcyone sees Seys at the foot of her bed, and he tells her that he has died and that she must find his body by the sea and bury it. ... Finally, after the full explanation of the lady's worth, the knight, under questioning from the narrator, blurts out that she has died. ...

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It was composed as an elegy to his friend, Hallam, who died at the age of 22 from a fever. ... 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. ... In my opinion winter represents the death of nature, but the difference is that nature regenerates, whereas h...

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This fact is accentuated by the fact that the presence of the hawk leads them simply to "yield"- the threat of danger and dying merely serves to bring them closer together. ... She uses images full of vitality which appeal to the senses to imply her lack of any fear of dying: the green grass above me with showers and dewdrops wet". ... Her bleak and definitive statements such as "When I am dead" show her resignation to the fact that she will one day die, and the way she copes with this is by persuading her lover not to be saddened by it when it does happen. ...

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At the age of nine she was unready for her father's death when she says, "You died before I had time- (line 7) which simply means that her father died before she had any reason to hate him or be angry with him, or realize that he wasn't perfect, good, or the honest person she made him out to be. ... At twenty I tried to die-(lines 56-58). ...

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She is successful in her declaration: "She could not wring desire from my body / or take the curl out of my hair (Homecoming 19)." ... In a review, Jason Zappe explains the unusual structure of the book, "The novel unfolds backward, the way a dying person might remember her life (Zappe 4)." ... Her failure to see her mother's inventions as a worthwhile self-expression, and not the desire to aid someone outside of her needful family, is indicative of her own struggle with self. ...

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"My heart is to intensify the expression of things, as is done by Crivelli, Bellini, ect, so that the heart and inner meaning is made vividly visible."" Thomas Hardy states on January 3rd, 1886, about his works (Scott 2). A common thread that is in three of Hardy's many poems is a passion or mourn...

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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 publica...

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