He begins with, "You are not wrong, who deem/ That my days have been a dream.... "While I weep-while I weep!... I find it hard to identify with how Poe feels in the poem, since I have not suffered the loss that he has, but I do think his ideas can be applied to less extreme situations. There have been multiple times in my own life when I have lost things that I were going to be permanent. One prime example of this is how I have drifted away from all my high school friends since coming to college. ...

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The audience is mainly the people reading that poem however, Poe may have targeted a more gothic audience. ... The poem contains two stanzas that have two separate but connected scenes. ... The woman may have been implying that the time she has spent with him has been a dream like a great escape from reality. ... The time they have spent together has maybe made him open his eyes about love and even life. ... The first instance is in the first stanza when the narrator says "While I weep-while I weep!...

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" Thus the reader can therefore draw parallels between the definition of empathy and the intertextuality that Duffy is perceived to have employed in the poem. The concept of a dream is also well-ensconced in Van Gogh's artwork, which could imply that the poem, like the artwork, is nothing but a dream; a figment of the poet's delicious imagination. The concept of a dream is also a prominent theme in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and is linked to the strange and dreamlike misadventures that occur in the magical forest of the play. ... One of the many mechanis...

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The repetition and context of "Times Square" in the title is very ironic: he is physically standing on Times Square, yet dreaming, and having ethereal thoughts of the same location in his mind-the Times Square of a different era. Moreover, he is dreaming of an idea and concept-what Times Square represents to him-more than the stones in the middle of the road. ... Diction such as "sad trumpeter," "memorial," "invisible," "vanished," "gone," and phrases such as "I was lonely" more than illustrate the exact tone he wishes readers to feel-a doleful, gloomy emotion. ... Garver was a young, subver...

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In the poem "i thank You God for most this amazing,"" E. ... Although rebirth can be seen as the general theme of the poem, with closer inspection the subject is, more specifically, about a spiritual resurrection.The third line, "i who have died am alive again today- is a direct reference to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.Christ was crucified and then buried in a tomb for three days until he was resurrected.The speaker of the poem feels that he has found a new perspective on life.This line is a metaphor, for the speaker did not literally die; rather, it is possible that he might ha...

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Maya Angelou: Still I Rise Maya Angelo was quoted in an article in Essence: African American Politicians Interviews, as saying " The power that I have first comes directly from being a descendent of people whose powerful history makes me humble. ... It doesn't have any rhyme or rhythm, however it does use figurative language throughout the poem. ... Sometimes you have to look further than the tangible objects to see clearly. ... Finally, in the last stanza Angelou humility breaks through as see writes, " Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slav...

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I frequently, wondered many thing such s who was he? ... I have a lot of question, but by researching n reading his poems I have learned them all. ... I compared the poems "Harlem" and "English B." ... The black man has a dream and that dream is eliminated before it is even thoroughly succeeded." ... "Langston was never married and there have always been speculations about his sexuality." ...

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The narrator now reflects how helpful it would be to have the god of sleep come and give him much-needed rest himself. ... Not even the famous Biblical interpreter of dreams, Joseph, who read dreams for Pharaoh (see  Genesis, Book 41), nor Macrobius, the late Roman author who wrote a famous (in Chaucer's day) commentary on  Cicero's  Dream of Scipio, would have the skill to read the fantastic dream the narrator had that night. ... The story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible would have been known to most people through stories, but the reference to Macrobius's Latin commentary o...

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It is very difficult to have a sole definition of poetry that fits all of its different structures, styles, and subject matters. ... Many authors have written poems stating their own definitions of poetry to expand on that of the dictionary. ... Walter wants to have a successful business so that he can rise above the poverty he has always known. ... In Act II, Scene I of the play, one can see the extent to which their dreams for happiness of being together began to "dry up." ... The effect of not having there dreams realized, has left them despising each other. ...

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A poem which I have recently read is: "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. ... The first image group is "Sleep or Dreams". ... The poet often refers to dreams. I believe part of the reason for this is that by dreaming you are escaping from the physical reality and surroundings and due to the horror and constant threat of death the soldiers would constantly be dreaming of home and their loved ones. However, Wilfred Owen could be looking at dreams being constant reminders of some past atrocity, similar to a recurring dream: " In all my dreams, before my helpless sight he plunges at me, gutter...

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In his dreams that night he will dream of apples. ... The man in the poem says with regret that he left some apples, meaning that many opportunities in his life have been passed up, but he also dreams of the many apples he did pick. ... For I have had too much Of apple-picking: I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired," (lines 24-29). He is worried about dreaming of apples, and dropping them, and cider. ... This is said when he talks about his sleep, and whether he will hibernate, or have a, "human sleep....

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She starts her poem with, "I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be"" (1-2). ... She admits, "You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright" (5-6). ... Explained in her seventh and eighth lines, "Yet I am I, Who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light" (7-8). Despite the situation with her lover still only a spirit in her eyes, the poet continues to carry on her dream of becoming completely harmonious with him, similar to nature where light becomes so lost in another light, the two are seen and regarded to as one. ... Teasdale gives a love plea in...

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This is evident in the quote "I was 12 going on 13 when I first saw a dead human being". ... The "gallant knight" featured here can be interpreted in a way that he is not actually a knight, but a young child dreaming to be a knight. ... Once the journey is completed, the film flashes back to the present, where the middle aged Gordy sits by a computer, also typing in a rhetorical question, "I never had any friends like the ones I had when I was twelve. ... " meaning that his friends have made him who he is today. ... From these two texts, we have learned that our...

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For those who have experienced the real loss of someone they love, the work may strike to close to home. ... "Eagerly I wished the morrow;-vainly I had sought to borrow/From my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost Lenore" (Poe 12). ... 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). ... -/On this home by Horror haunted-tell me truly, I implore-/Is there-is there balm in Gilead?-tell ...

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After these questions Hughes began to write in regular stanzas and go about trying to get the reader to forget about what he has talked about before and have them think about those that have worked so hard to build the United States. Hughes could have used the poem to speak for one race of people, but he didn't. ... For example, he writes, "Let it be the dream it used to be", even though "America never was America to me" indicating that the United States does offer the dream to some but not him as he pleads for the United States he once dreamed of. ... what he has dreamed of, a land wh...

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Eliot was extremely affected by World War I and as a result his writings were blatantly dominated by his cynical views of the world around him. ... This place of nothingness is what Eliot means by "death's dream Kingdom." ... They are the inhabitants who have never been spiritually alive, never experienced good or evil, having lived narrowly for themselves." ... The poet cannot bear to face the ones who have been able to meet death and go to heaven. ... Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom Let me go nearer In death's dream kingd...

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Should I be good? ... The decision is, "No, can't imagine myself married to that pleasant prison dream" (Corso, 371). ... You do not know how longingly I look upon you . . . I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again" (Whitman, 359). Although a stranger the narrator feels this person is one from a dream," You must be he . . . or she I was seeking (it comes to be one as of a dream)" (Whitman, 359). ...

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However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." By looking at her use of language, imagery, themes and her addressee I shall explore to what extent I agree with the statement that the work of Rosetti leans towards the "Dark Side." ... "A Dream" is a biographical poem which charts the events of a dream which the speaker has had about her and her lover. ... In line 11, the speaker makes the connection between their dream and reality by saying "I thoug...

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This shows the division between how he is perceived and how he views himself as the third stanza finishes with the word "yu" and the forth stanza begins with "I"m." ... In the fourth stanza the poem becomes harsher and more bitter as the poet's use of images of dreams and shadows portray an ominous, frightening feeling. It becomes more apparent that the word "half" is loathed by the narrator as it represents his restriction and it is constantly repeated and stumbled upon, "I half-caste human being cast half-a shadow." ... This image represents the injustice he feels at being seen as only ...

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Personally, I think he would. ... I know if it were I, I would feel that a sense of claustrophobia, an unease and repulsion of the things that I would be forced to cope with and an irrepressible urge to escape. I would hate the feeling of knowing that I could not just leave when I pleased and had to face the same tragic scene every day. ... The lines are: In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. ... This is a horrible thought, to still be having flashbacks of something as dire as that, and to be powerless to stop it. ...

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Wordsworth begins his poem specifically stating that AFive years have past; five summer, with the length of five long winter!... When he says A I cannot paint what then I was, (75, 76) it shows he's been changing and growing up. ... Coleridge=s AFrost At Midnight@ demonstrates a lost origin when he=s dreaming of his childhood memories. ... He remembers a dream and it takes him further back to his childhood. ... Throughout the years Romantic poems have been written by different romantic poets who created different types of themes. ...

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From there on the whole afternoon is absorbed in the appreciation of music and hours later when the poet is in his bed he hears his cat move about in the darkness and strike one note which lingers in his mind in the form of a dream, here also we observe a beautiful use of words to describe the lingering the note "A single lucid drop of water stars my dream." ... Another aspect observable here is the harmony of nature with music as notes of music or sound only enhance the things around them, while having a big impact as we can imagine the ripples of water following the "single lucid d...

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Gary Soto, a Mexican-American, has the courage to express the struggle his people have had in the southwest through his mystical writing. His rich culture and literary skills paint a detailed account of his life, hopes, and dreams. ... These elements add a dream-like feel to the poem. ... The way he uses two similes back to back twice in the poem adds to the dream-like feel of the poem. ... Keeping magical realism in mind, I think that the theme is one of hope and optimism through hard times. ...

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I love what I do not have. ... Neruda describes "loving what he does not have" as in not having his love with him and is tired of living with "no purpose". ... The moon turns its clockwork dream. ... But he likes the night because he meets her regularly in his dream. ... There are no rhymes in "Here I Love You", and the six verses have a meter that is scattered. ...

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As both poets have different opinions about war, in fact, almost opposite opinions, each poet uses different types of diction, figurative language, imagery, sounds, and tones to achieve his purpose. ... The diction as used by Rupert Brooke in The Soldier, is plain and non-descriptive, but calming and peaceful, for example, "washed by rivers", "blest by suns of home", "dreams happy as her day" and "hearts at peace". ... While, Wilfred Owen, in Dulce Et Decorum Est, uses many metaphors, such as "thick green light" and "under a green sea, I saw him drowning." ... In the second stanza of Dulce Et ...

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