1. Poem Analysis - The Soldier
It is interesting how poets from different writing periods can have similar views. ... Both poets also felt that we have to reach a certain level before we truly experience life. ... This was the connection we have to the life source. ... In essence, we become like Narcissus, gazing so long at ourselves that we fail to see the danger of such an action. ... Instead of offering a way to connect with this fountain, or this fig tree, as Whitman would, Rilke mentions, "we linger, / alas, we boast about our blooming; already betrayed, / we reach the core of our fruit too late." ...
How far does Tennyson's "In Memoriam" reflect the spirit of the Victorian Age? ... It was composed as an elegy to his friend, Hallam, who died at the age of 22 from a fever. ... The poet refers to God like full of immortal love and "we", human being, have faith, although we have not proofs of the existence of God. But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but faith" and he writes that it is just for knowledge and trust that we believe in things we see "it comes from thee", moreover in line 22 when man has no fear, "we mock...
Choose three poems and consider how far they support this view of her work. ... One of the first impressions we are given from the speaker is the feeling of unity and happiness between the two lovers, represented by "two swift-winged pigeons". ... The word "piteous" does indeed evoke our sympathy, as we, like the speaker, feel outraged at the abuse of creatures unable to defend themselves. ... 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...
He died on March 26, 1892. ... His father, a newspaper editor, died when Robert was 10. ... The New York Times Book Review gave this quote "new poem after new poem makes clear how deeply each Frost poem bears on all Frost poems, and how surely all are a constant symbol of his life's commitment to making metaphors that clarify the dark paradoxes they contain. ... He died in Boston on Jan. 29, 1963. ... Whitman often wrote of wartime and how he saw it. ...
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. ... The narrator now reflects how helpful it would be to have the god of sleep come and give him much-needed rest himself. ... The complaint details how his lady-love, whom he "loved with al my might" (line 478), has been lost. ... Finally, after the full explanation of the lady's worth, the knight, under questioning from the narrator, blurts out that she has died. ...
The spiritual correspondence between man and nature can be illustrated as being a "spiritual communication" between the two, which is the affect of how they interact with each other. ... The quote itself actually is a good example of how Keats brings about a cold feel to the poem at this point, which is ironic as we associate cold temperatures with loss. ... Also, the fantasy style poem brings about a strong contrast with the style used in the more recent poems of Hughes and Heaney, who have chosen to use more realistic representations in their poems with the boy and the man, and the rat a...
They aim to show how Keats experiences the world around him and how he aims at constructing this world for himself. ... As readers, we can see these strengths brilliantly manifested within the poetry and that Keats has a preoccupation with the impossibility of possessing reality. ... As readers, we can appreciate and sympathise with Keats's predicament- in Keats's observable interest in the permanent release from a mundane life; he befriends the reader who can understand what it must feel like to regard death as an easeful release from care and suffering. He realises the transitory n...
She had a strong Anglo-Catholicism background; this imposed tight constraints upon how far she would investigate a self-sufficient femininity. ... 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 giving in to the temptation of the fruit, died at the first snow fall. ... Stronger than man-rejoicing wine, Clearer than water flowed that juice; She never ta...
(He would later serve as the antagonizing factor in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and the murderous protagonist in Las Mariposas.) ... 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)." ... That poet at Lucinda's party the night before argued that no matter how much of it one lost, in the midst of some profound emotion, one would revert to one's mother tongue What language did she love in (How 16)?" ... It's never the same - or rather we are not the same (Milane...
I see what you are doing: you are leading me on To the spots we knew when we first haunted here together, The waterfall, above which the mist-bow shone At the then fair hour in the then fair weather, And the cave just under, with a voice still so hollow That it seems to call out to me from forty years ago, When you were all aglow, And not the thin ghost that I now frailly follow! ... In the poem the speaker speaks of how he can see his love (l. 6) and all of her beauty (ll. 7-8) and yet she cannot see him, and how he waits for the day when his love will once again be able to se...
Each separate dying-out ember threw shadows on the floor, and I eagerly wished it to be the next day (8-9). ... We can't help but agree that no earthly being was ever blessed yet with seeing a bird or beast named "Nevermore,"" upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door (51-54). ... By that Heaven that exists above us- by the God we both honor- tell my sad soul if, within the distant Aidenn, there waits a saintly maiden called Lenore (91-95). ...
However, because the rhyme is unusual is can be used occasionally to emphasises certain images, eg, 'high above the gutter' and 'golden butter' The poem begins by described how the 'adverts face all ways and block'. ... Larkin uses irony in the phrase 'screen groves with custard' to represent how the adverts temporarily allow people to forget the reality of their own lives. ... The phrase 'of how life should be emphasise the utopian society as something ordinary people can only aspire to'. ... Larkin describes 'the boy', 'a pens...
Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. The year 1900 marked only a chronological entry into the twentieth century; many of the new tones of voice, the new anxieties and difficulties that we associate with modern writing had already begun. ... Yeats himself quickly drew the lesson that 'We must purify poetry', which was to continue, through movements like Imagism and Vorticism, up to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the period when the Modern movement in poetry was formed. ...