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 next two lines talk of how water turns into air, and once again the change is compared to utter sadness and here we can see the theme of melancholy. 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. ... Poets have consistently used comparisons and metaphors to express how they feel, and...

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I will, in this paper, give an overview of each of the poems, explain how they compare, explain how they contrast, and then say which poem is the greater piece of literature. ... In the third stanza, "In fine, we thought that he was everything / To make us wish that we were in his place" (11-12). ... In "Richard Cory," Robinson shows how sad it is when others only see you for your outward appearance. ... An instance of where the people admired him and wanted to be him is in the third stanza: "In fine, we thought that he was everything / To make us wish that we were in his place" (11-12). ...

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We know why we die and what causes death, but we do not know if anything exists after death. ... When we die we just become cold unfeeling corpses buries under mounds of dirt. ... In the second stanza her find out this other lover has died. ... Those last three words, simple as they are, show how much the narrator loved this other man. ... She is asking the question we all ask when we think we have been unfairly treated: Why? ...

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We can tell by his maturity level. The family member that died was a brother or sister to the boy that the author is talking about. ... Normally we would expect the boy's parents to come and pick him up from school, but on this occasion they do not. ... Stanza seven tells you how the boy or girl died. ... In this stanza it shows how the boy was killed and again emphasizes how something so small could die. ...

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In Verse One, Owen starts by explaining how he and the people around him are feeling. ... This line allows Owen to show how violently the wind was blowing, causing the wire to move. It allows us to appreciate how cold the men must have been, due to this violent wind. ... Owen writes, "Is it that we are dying?" ... In the last line of this verse, Owen writes, "we turn back to our dying". ...

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The Sonnet defines an old man in a relationship with a younger lady who is dying and how much he loves her. ... 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. ... This creates imagery where not only we get the story, but we can relate these events with imaginary pictures in our minds. ... He's telling his audience about him getting old and how his life is ending and how he's going to miss her. ...

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This is true for the majority of the men and women that fight, but when your country tells you about war and all the brave things that can be done, they often forget to tell you how to deal with the death and fear that results from seeing fellow men dying in front of you, it reaps havoc on your emotions. Nor do they tell you how you will never be able to erase those memories from your mind. ... The title "Dulce et Decorum Est" means "it is sweet and meet to die for one's country. ... In the first section we are introduced to the soldier and we are given a very grim account of the...

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"How nice," et cetera. ... how the children "whine and bicker" and later on states how "sweet" it is "to hear their chatter." ... A glossy magazine the children bought her lies open: How to keep your husband's love. ... In this poem the woman can be seen as drudge, very tired, a victim of her suburban framework; and any love the children's father felt for her has died. ... Within the first few lines of most of her poems we are struck with the graphic and distinct atmosphere of the whole poem. ...

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There we are given one of the expressions used by Owen to compare the men like "old beggars under sacks". ... The impact that Owen draws upon the reader is of young men who are no longer young but who look old and dying in amongst the crud. ... "Men marched asleep", it may seem impossible but this showed to us just how knackered they were. ... Wilfred Owen sadly died on Armistice Day in 1918 just after coming out of hospital months earlier. His parents were sent a telegram that very day probably saying he was a brave soldier and died serving his country. ...

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If we examine the forms of the poems, we are able to note a significant difference in the stanza patterns and lines. ... Meanwhile, "Vulture" is a free versed poem with longer lines; lines where the sentences leak over into the next line, which tries to have an interesting effect on how we should react to them. ... And as we continue down the lines, the grace ceases to exist and we are forced to race with our feelings. ... The hawk's philosophy of life is very clear; other creatures must die for it to live. Aware of the lack of remorse that such creatures possess, the man in "Vulture" ...

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This poem illustrates how one's choices and actions can impact upon another. ... By comparing Midas to an Egyptian pharaoh who died very young, hinting that he too will die young and surrounded with gold, Duffy stirs a sense of sympathy from readers felt for Mrs Midas, in turn forcing us think about how cruel something as miraculous as having the 'touch of gold' can really be.  ... Mrs Midas serves not so much to readers as a lesson to be careful about what we wish for as it is an example of how one's choices impacted upon another. ... This shows that Medusa was ma...

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Owen shows in his poem how instead of using science in order to work for nature, man has both intensified an attack on his fellow man and corrupted the natural world ( Breen 181). ... In this unique way Owen not only conveys Mankind's corruption of nature, but shows how such corruption leads to the destruction of Mankind, exemplified in the form of the cringing soldiers hiding in the salient. ... The lines in the poem: Since we believe not otherwise can kind fire burn; Nor ever suns smile true on child, or field, or fruit. For God's invincible spring our love is ma...

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In the beginning of the poem it seems to be a simple allege but after third line second stanza you realize that Frost tells about how his friend was a better soldier than a poet and because he has died he is remembered as both. It's only after the fact that we realize that the first few lines; he was bored and fell asleep while reading his friends poems. ... Also in the last stanza and last line of the writing we see: "And see you pleased once more with words of mine?" We notice that his arrogance prevails even in a time of sadness and mourning to his best friend. ... This is Frosts was ...

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Wilfred Owen uses language in Dulce Et Decorum Est to give the reader the impression that war is horrible and that dying for one's country is not all the glory and honour that it seems, and that in reality, dying in a war, no matter for what cause, can be both painful and full of suffering, while Rupert Brooke on the other hand, uses language in The Soldier, to give the reader the impression that dying in war for one's country, is very honourable, and glorious. ... Using that image, he shows the reader that England is indeed worth to die for. ... In the third and final stanza of ...

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This is a standard issue in society today; whether free will exists or whether we live in a trapped world where we can not do what we want to in destiny or where we can't do something whether we put our minds to it or not. ... Ernest may have gotten the "last laugh" so to speak because at the end of this poem because he proved his point, that free will does not exist, to Roger before Roger died. ... Obviously Roger for his final word in before Ernest died. ... He brings up a few major points about his view about the world and how it does not consist about free will at all. ... Mas...

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Whitman was born May 31, 1819 in Long Island, New York and died in 1892 (Baym 2076). ... Whitman's poetry, as unconventional as it may be, represented his democratic ideals of how he sees America. ... Walt Whitman was saying that whether male or female the body is beautiful, and we should not be ashamed to be who we are, as far as gender is concerned. ... " Towards the end of "Song of Myself" as Whitman writes about dying is a different kind of death, he wrote "And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier." The phase seems to say that any death i...

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For instance, "We slowly drove-He knew no haste"// "We passed the School, where Children strove" "We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain-" "We passed the Setting Sun-" Repetition of the word "passed" for several times show that in her journey towards the eternity, she gradually leaves behind her legacy. ... He uses everyday words that we would use in conversation. ... Frost made us realised how much the speaker wants to linger at the woods, but he is constantly reminded that he has more obligations to fulfil. ... For instance, "For only Gossamer, my Gown-" "My Tippet-only Tulle-" ...

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The time scale shows us exactly how dangerous the bomb is. ... By this point, the reader realizes that there is something very wrong if people and animals are being left to die. ... "Some of us may die not likely to be you the sun is shining, death is the least we have to fear what ever happens, happens". ... This line hints at how obsessive the man in the poem is. ... It's not until later on that we find out how obsessed he really is. ...

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Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874 and he died in Boston on January 29, 1963. ... Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died on January 29, 1963 in Boston (Frost). ... He noted more than once how the sentence sound says more than the words; how tones of voice' can mean more than words. ... We are one in spirit, as well as being united by our work. We all can appreciate beauty. ...

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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". ... In the seventh stanza we are presented with the powerful image of the Biblical tale of the Israelite Ruth caught in Egypt longing for her home. ... In relation to the effect that nature has on the speaker himself, we are told that the qualities possessed by the countryside strike him in more intense manner than most things that awaken his. The language used to describe the scene is elaborate and grand and I feel this is meant to evoke how the ...

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./ But we by a'love, so much refin'd/ That we ourselves know not what it is/ Inter-assured of the mind,/ Care lesse, eyes, lips, and hands to misse. ... Thus he dies in peace and calm, and the people surrounding him at his deathbed are sad, but not anguished. ... The people surrounding the dying man are quiet partly so as not to disturb him - in the same way, Donne says that too much outward show of emotion on the part of one lover would just disturb the other. ... At first this seems ridiculous, but Donne shows how it makes sense. ... These conceits were very frowned-upon in the con...

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Question A great poem puts into words what we already know but had not thought of saying. How far and by what means has a poet you studied achieved this? ... Larkin's choice of words in this stanza highlights the point he makes, as the fact that we are all doomed to die is "so permanent", "blank and true." ... The final line of the poem abandons the tone of lonely misery of those who experience death and uses, "we" to illustrate the universality of death, emphasizing how no one can escape death. This poem puts into words the thought of death as being an unyi...

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This line sets a mood from the beginning reflecting on how she missed out on something. ... It says how the world is different now and he cannot see what he used to see anymore. ... The mood in this poem seems very melancholy since every time a positive aspect is mentioned the author adds a negative one to die the mood back down. ... The theme of this poem links very well with all the other poems because it explains how no matter how good adulthood is, there will always be those little parts of childhood that are missed. ... The lines that make up this quote capture the imagination of a youn...

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At night when all the colours die, they hide in pairs and read about themselves in colour, with their eyelids shut. -- Craig Raine Craig Raine Born in 1945 in County Durham located North of England. ... Therefore, renewing our acquaintance with the things we take for granted. ... Laughing and crying are opposing contrasts, causing contrasting feelings as we read. ... The analogy "time is tied to the wrist" denotes a watch and connotes that we cannot escape it. ... Raine uses "punishment room" as a metonym for the bathroom, describing it in this way alters how we perceive what ...

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At night when all the colours die, they hide in pairs and read about themselves in colour, with their eyelids shut. -- Craig Raine Craig Raine Born in 1945 in County Durham located North of England. ... Therefore, renewing our acquaintance with the things we take for granted. ... Laughing and crying are opposing contrasts, causing contrasting feelings as we read. ... The analogy "time is tied to the wrist" denotes a watch and connotes that we cannot escape it. ... Raine uses "punishment room" as a metonym for the bathroom, describing it in this way alters how we perceive what ...

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