When speaking of the changing season, the falling leaves and the paired butterflies, the speaker remarks, "They hurt me. ... She notes that "the leaves fall early this autumn" and "[different] moss is grown [and is] too deep to clear away" (Pound 20-21). Instead of taking pleasure in the coloured mosaic of fallen leaves, the speaker sees them as a sign of decay and isolation, indicative of her loneliness. ...

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This is obviously fall. I can see the orange, yellow and red leaves, lying all around. The gray/brown bark of the trees where the leaves are already fallen. ... "The Road Not Taken" is set in fall. ... Fall is a time when things are old and while sometimes beautiful, the days are numbered. ...

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"* The "divine attributes of innocence", in the second stanza, undergo a sinister metamorphosis to prepare for "Blake's naturalistic fall of man"*, much like the traditional fall commonly known as the story of Adam and Eve, it involves a tree. ... Also, Blake's tree can now be considered to be developing leaves and branches, in other words expanding as implies the word "spreads". ... In Blake's "Proverbs of hell", he states: "As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys." ...

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However many have claimed that Whitman's writing is so free form as evident in his 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself that it has no style. ... It is almost as he is tossing seeds into his poetry and allowing the leaves of grass to grow together in whichever form or path they choose for themselves. ... Whitman's writing clearly does not fall into the typical framework of poetry as established by his predecessors, however his work has established its own style. ... The underlying style and structure of Whitman's Leaves Of Grass is that like the leaves of grass the...

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An example of her tone can be found in the first stanza where she lists all the tasks that she must fulfill throughout the day: "I've got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop" Her tone can also be found in the lines "Fall softly, dewdrops And cool my brown again" and "Let me float across the sky 'Til I can rest again" in which the mother wishes to seek relief from nature. ... Examples of imagery being used are "Fall gently, snowflakes Cover me with white.... Punctuation also leaves an effect in this poem. ...

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John Donne's poem, "The Broken Heart" is composed of a multitude amount of themes, worthy diction, poetic devices, and figurative language that fall into place in order to successfully emphasize on the thoughts of heartache from the speaker. ... It follows, "Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though the be not unite " (25-28). ... A lover can learn but never love again after a broken heart, Donne chooses his diction carefully to allow the speaker to wrap the poem with the idea of how the rapid damage leav...

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While news is for briefing, fiction is for fantasy, and so on poetry leaves the reader with a feeling of familiarity. ... It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shriveled forms Crouched in the moonlight. ... The reference to autumn signifies the end of something, similar to the way which nature dies in the fall. ... It is the feeling one gets when they first fall in love, or when they experience their first heartbreak. ...

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The "sick leaves" foreshadow disease and death, which is reinforced by how they "reel down in throngs." ... The word "throngs" is used to express the multitude of the leaves falling down which creates an image of uncontrollable death and passing time. ...

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Civilizations rise and fall; yet it is the art that remains. ... It can be snow on a mountain or possibly a stream running through a valley, but whatever it may be Yeats leaves it up to the reader to decide. ...

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Biographical Timeline 1893 - 18 March, Born Plas Wilmot, Oswestry 1911 - Becomes a lay assistant at Dunsden 1913 - Leaves for Bordeaux, France to teach English 1914 - Meets French poet Laurent Talihade 1915 - October, Returns to England, enlists in 3/28 regiment. 1917 - Arrives in France to notorious Infantry depot as an Officer reinforcement 1917 - 12th January, In charge In front line at Serre 1917 - 14/15th March, Suffers concussion after a fall 1917 - 8/30th April, In an attack at Dancour Trench, St Quentin 1917 - 2nd May, C.O notices he is unwell, Evacuated to No.13 CCS with she...

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Romantic Poets: Wordsworth, Shelly, and Keats. The Romantic poets are recognized for the love of nature. They all have expressed their love of nature in relationship to some aspect of life. They reflect on nature as something so immense and beautiful as well as its immutability. Three romantic ...

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The length of the lines vary between each section of the work, but the majority of this poem and many others by Whitman are written in breath-length lines – meaning that they are written the way that Whitman spoke, the pauses falling where his would naturally fall. ... That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm/ To thy sick heart. ...

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Ginsberg accepts the fact that things don't fall into place and embraces it by letting his words and phrases follow the same pattern that nature does, that pattern is a lack of although in both nature and Sunflower Sutra items still seem to fall into place. ... It gets lodged in there and causes so extensive irritation and yet somehow leaves the listener feeling like they have experienced something beautiful, and they have. ...

• Word Count: 1238
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate