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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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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I was barely sure I heard you tapping so gently and faintly at my chamber door because I was napping."" (19-23). ... I stood there for a long time, peering deep into that darkness, wondering, fearing, doubting and dreaming dreams no being ever dared to dream before (25-26). ... He didn't say anything further, nor fluttered a feather, until I scarcely more than muttered "Other friends have left me before- tomorrow he will leave me, like my hopes have flown before."" ... Do not leave a single black feather as a reminder of the lie you have spoken! ... His eyes have all the likeness of...

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The poems I have analysed, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", "An Advancement of Learning" and "Roe-Deer", have their focal point revolving around encounters between man and nature. ... I stared him out". ... This typical style of writing, using fantasy stories to illustrate something, is shows that this poem has a strong sense of spiritual correspondence between man and nature, as Keats has had to dream this poem up, whereas in "An Advancement of Learning", or even "Roe-Deer", the poets may have actually been through these experiences, and these poems could just be showing their emotions at the time...

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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. ... As I have read, Tennyson's notions of time are initially dependent upon the strict division between human time and time existing in nature, the first is linear, the second one is cyclical. ... In the stanza of the preface it is shown the important effect that time have on human being, that is to say, the death "They have their day and cease to be"; every man has his system or his time, which is divided by days, then being a linear time, there ...

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Away for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But not on the viewless wings of Poesy". ... He realises the transitory nature of human life; and by the end of stanza six recognises that the Nightingale would not cease to sing if he were to die "Still wouldst thou sing, an I have ears in vain- To thy high requiem become a sod." ... "Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music- Do I wake or sleep?" ... As scepticism reasserts itself, the poet is drawn back from the timelessness of the dream and into the temporal. ...

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Many 20th century poets have attested to the freeing effect that Ginsberg's poetry had upon them in the late fifties. ... I haven't told you much about myself. I am [the] smallest boy in class. ... I really believe it. ... I have a fair degree of confidence in myself. ...

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Yes: I have re-entered your olden haunts at last; Through the years, through the dead scenes I have tracked you; What have you found to say of our past " Scanned across the dark space wherein I have lacked you? ... The Haunter By: Thomas Hardy He does not think that I haunt here nightly: How shall I let him know That whither his fancy sets him wandering I, too, alertly go?... When I could answer he did not say them: When I could let him know How I would like to join his journeys Seldom he wished to go. ... What a good haunter I am, O tell him! ... Now, the speaker is al...

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It is interesting how poets from different writing periods can have similar views. ... If Rilke had been able to meet Whitman, would he have changed his philosophy? Would the Duino Elegies have become the Duino Revelries? ... This was the connection we have to the life source. ... And even if I were! ...

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In order to answer this question you have to know the definition of psychological and historical theories. ... An old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer to children, Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me, (Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war, But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself, To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;){Whitman, 198} Other poems of wartime are Calvary Crossing a Ford' and ...

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It may have something to do with the politics of the looming war, we think. ... The Realist When you start a poem with "If I should die," then you're already confronting a cold, hard truth that most people would rather not think about. ...

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The author subsequently presents him to have abnormal powers to explore the earth and heavens from a chariot drawn by dragons, and he is seen flying to Rome, where there is a celebration to honor St. ... This ambition of gaining power and authority over others makes him similar to Doctor Faustus in Marlowe's play, who also sold his soul only to have power for 24 years. ... This was clearly indicated at the beginning of the play when he said that he had hatched fiendish plots through drunken prophecies and dreams to set his brother George and the king in deadly hate against each other (1.1...

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However, this tendency has been balanced by other writers who have made use of popular forms in order to communicate with a wider audience. ... In 1899, Arthur Symons, one of the poetic 'aesthetes' of the 1890s, published his study The Symbolist Movement in Poetry, which would have great influence on modern poets like W.B. ... Throughout the Victorian and Georgian periods the language of poetry was felt to have a special decorum and to be different from everyday language. ...

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