Into this dreary setting, the poet's heart can be heard. ... The magic of Poe's enduring mystery is the dark allusions that bode no unveiling; "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,/Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before" (Poe 12). However, the echoing darkness of those dreams must find specificity in the dark heart of the reader, and the poet will not fulfill that unholy task. ... The raven is one of the most intelligent birds, and its dark plumage suggests the vast wisdom of the unconscious. ... This dark premoniti...

• Word Count: 1328
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Malvolio often wishes that he held Olivia's heart and hand, but the social order and classes found in Renaissance times restrict him. ... They then try and convince Malvolio that the light in his cell is truly darkness. This darkness symbolizes Malvolio's non-existent insanity. ... In response to his imprisonment, Malvolio says, "I say this house is as dark as ignorance, though/Ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say there was/Never man thus abused."" ... Orsino discovers himself and what he wants by the end of the book, and gives his heart to Viola. ...

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"This wary aristocratic mole- is the mother saying that the daughter is an untrusting mammal of nobility, as moles have dark silvery fur and her daughter is dressed in head to toe in gray. ... We see where the mother is feeling hurt again by what she sees next: "The Chateaubriand arrived on a bone-white plate, smug and absolute in its fragrant crust, a black plug steaming like the heart plucked from the chest of a worthy enemy; one touch with her fork sent pink juices streaming."" We see here that "The Chateaubriand- is a represent...

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Contrastingly, the child in "Infant Sorrow" is the only one speaking and is describing his or her own birth as a traumatic experience using despairing words such as "helpless", "struggling", "striving", and "bound", which radiates an eerie sensation of being trapped in darkness and hopelessness. ... On the contrary, the illustrations in Blake's original plate for "Infant Sorrow" are contrastingly in a dark room. ... In the "Nurse's Song" from Songs of Innocence, "the voices of children" (Line 1) is descri...

• Word Count: 1939
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In The Soldier, Rupert Brooke uses both fluid and long, yet well-linked sentences for his poem, thus giving the reader a soothing effect, for example, he only has three sentences over fourteen lines, and he uses a sentence such as, "And think, this heart, all evil shed away, a pulse in the eternal mind, no less gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; and laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven." ... The diction as used by Rupert Brooke in The Soldier, is plain and non-descriptive, but c...

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Sonnet 130 is one of the final twenty-eight that deals with "the dark lady" whoever she may be. ... The "dark lady" has set new standards on what true beauty exemplifies. ... The entire sonnet is describing "the dark lady." ... A person can find love in the spirit of the person and the heart and mind are more important than physical traits. ... Shakespeare is being realistic in his comparison of "the dark lady." ...

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Certain poems in Songs of Innocence contain a darker tone that foreshadows, or predicts, the arrival of a more experienced perspective. ... The rhythm of the last verse becomes quicker and lighter as the sweep describes how his parents 'praise God' that everything is fine, but slows right down as the last line exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of state religion. ... Her heart is at rest within her breast', and she is glad to hear the hills echoing with the children's laughter. ... I believe that Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience do need to be read together...

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In the first few lines, Neruda's use of imagery is apparent: In the dark pines the wind disentagles itself. ... The third stanza above is by far the most powerful and heart-wrenching depiction of Neruda's despair. ... The old saying, "the home is where the heart is" most certainly pertains to Pablo Neruda. Neruda's home is his wife and Neruda's heart is with his wife. Without a heart or a home, you are empty. ...

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Anne deeply admired and attempted to emulate the confessional poem "Heart's Needle" by Shodgrass (Discovering Biographies 2). ... Anne's early poetry was said to be hopeful and joyful while it became much darker in her latter years (American Literature 3591). She was said to see poetry as a physical experience and she used imagery as the "heart of poetry" (Anne Sexton 1). ...

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The epithets throughout the poem are contradictory, but the majority of them can be linked with darkness- symbolizing the dark side of man. ... On one hand, the creation can be interpreted as industrial process (Moore), but on the other hand it can be looked at as another sign for the might of God- God, who forges not only the body, but also the heart of the fearful beast. ...

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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 grave, until (d) Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow (c) H...

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William Wordsworth complains that "the world" is too overwhelming for us to appreciate it: "Getting and spending, we lay waste our power: Little we see in nature that is our: we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon. ... When Wordsworth first lays eyes on this beautiful woman he describes her eyes being as beautiful as the stars in the evening and her hair as dark as the night. ...

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In Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover," the author takes us inside the mind of a madman who reveals the dark side of human nature, and how death is twisted into a demented form of compassion. ... "Murmuring how she loved me-she/ Too weak, for all her heart's endeavor,/ To set its struggling passion free/ From pride, and vainer ties dissever,/ And give herself to me forever" (21-25). ... This is best explained in the key passage: "Happy and proud; at last I knew/ Porphyria worshipped me; surprise/ Made my heart swell, and still it grew/ While I debated ...

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She Walks In Beauty 1 She walks in beauty , like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light 5 Which heaven to gaudy day denies. 2 One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o"er her face; 10 Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling place. 3 And on the cheek, and o"er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, 15 But tell of...

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To know the essence of Walter Whitman, you would have to understand the heart of his writing. ... Whitman truly placed his heart in his pen as few poets have. In short, it looks as though Whitman's haunting figure will remain a presence in American literature he will be lurking there, waiting to see if the "poets to come" live up to his expectations expressed in the "Inscription" poem addressed to them: I myself write but one or two indicative words for the future, I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness. ...

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The purity of the advertising world where nothings made as new or as washed clean' compared to the dirt of the real world, And the boy puking his heart out in the gents'. ... Larkin also writes that the buyers realise the illusions of advertising too late, smiling, and recognising and going dark. ...

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Lawrence, the persona's encounter with a snake is partially in awe or the beauty but interrupted by dark human impulses. ... His sentiment towards "my snake" is possessive in his immediate change in heart. ...

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There are things that happen in our life that we often have difficulty accepting and everyone has a different way of doing this. War has been a popular topic for poets as it affects us all whether we are in direct contact with it or not. Some protest against war using physical force, while othe...

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The speaker envisions his neighbor as a leftover from a justifiably old-fashioned era, a living example of a dark-age mentality. ... The image at the heart of Mending Wall is interesting: two men meeting on terms of civility and neighborliness to build a barrier between them. ...

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Within these two poems he is able to bring people closer to the heart of primitive human nature in his race than anyone ever before (Laryea 109). ... He seeks to redeem the darker brother throughout his works of poetry (Mead 132). ...

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The line continues to say that the man turned their heads on the haunting flares, maybe in a half-hearted effort to shut them out of their minds. ... If this is the case then the line is quite dark, but if the line is taken as it is written then there is a little more optimism being displayed. ...

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The reader may start to think about the things that relate to the idea of humanity and mortality: the body, brain and heart – all transitory parts. ... In line 15, the specific reference to the literary character Venus, Auden thus mixes beauty and love with death and the dark side of life. ...

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