The understanding of one's inner journey is demonstrated through the ideas of self-development. ... One's physical journey is simply moving from one place to another but usually features a change in mentality or expression for the protagonist, hence making it a physical and inner journey. ... Both these journeys span from childhood to adulthood, which can be defined as a bildungsroman. ... We have now come to realise that both these journeys are inner as well as physical journeys. Unlike the knight, Gordy spent only his childhood on his physical journey; however the inner journey wi...

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The journey that takes place in Gwen Harwood's sonnet "In the Park," approaches the concept of taking a journey from many different angles; both physical and emotional. The main character is a mother, following the possible unwilling journey of motherhood and domestication and the sacrifices that have taken place. ... Harwood does this as she wants to create a mood as well as paint a picture in the audiences mind of how isolated she is due to her children on the journey of motherhood, quite possibly sacrificing her friends. ... Harwood uses a hyperbole to conclude the poem not only to c...

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The poem is about journey after life which is inevitable and may be unpleasant. ... Besides that, Dickinson illustrates clearly her attire in during the journey. ... As for Frost, the whole poem symbolises a journey in the woods. ... Then, the journey slowly takes place as we can clearly see the four stages of life. The initial stage of her journey seems not really scary. ...

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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost relates on both a literal and metaphoric level to the concept of a journey. The poem depicts one man's journey throughout his life, the choices he made and the road he travelled. The Road Not Taken is a poem with universal relevance about a journey that every person takes. ... The Road Not Taken effectively conveys the concept of a journey. ... The journey described here is the universal journey every individual experiences, the journey of life. ...

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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost relates on both a literal and metaphoric level to the concept of a journey. The poem depicts one man's journey throughout his life, the choices he made and the road he travelled. The Road Not Taken is a poem with universal relevance about a journey that every person takes. ... The Road Not Taken effectively conveys the concept of a journey. ... The journey described here is the universal journey every individual experiences, the journey of life. ...

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The poem depicts one man's journey throughout his life, the choices he made and the road he travelled. The Road Not Taken is a poem with universal relevance about a journey that every person takes. ... A person's life can be metaphorically related to a physical journey filled with many twists and turns. ... The Road Not Taken effectively conveys the concept of a journey. ... The journey described here is the universal journey every individual experiences, the journey of life. ...

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The second and third stanzas of the poem, depicts the journey founded through the transitioning from sleep to their awakening. ... Slessor creates a personal approach through the use of the inclusive word, "you," allowing the audience to further identify and be inclusive on this journey. ... A continued journey of the foetus is displayed through the symbol of the, "belly," depicting the literal image of pregnancy emphasising this journey of childbirth, a mother goes through before meeting her child. Thus, through the second and third stanzas, Slessor's depiction of a m...

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Bronte, however, describes death as final, while Dickinson describes death as the beginning of a new journey. ... This repetition also shows the progress of their journey past a community and school, past farmers' fields, past the setting sun which symbolizes the end of her life, to a house or grave which is her final resting place. Death guides the narrator through many aspects of life in their journey to eternity, implying there is an afterlife and death is simply the beginning of another journey. ...

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On the literal level death is viewed as a woman's last journey towards eternity. ... The primary theme of the poem is that death is a natural portion of life's journey but at the same time giving comfort that it is not the end of a soul's travel. ... In line 5 Dickinson begins death's journey with a slow, forward movement, which can be seen as she writes, "We slowly drove---He knew no haste." ... This is the complete opposite belief about afterlife in Dickinson's other poem, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", which indicated that life is a never-ending journe...

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It could almost be stated that both "At the waters edge" and "Alter Ego" are timeless poems; hence they exist in a realm not affected by the movement of time, or life's journey. ... In knowing her alter-ego, total identity will not be revealed until the end of life's journey. ... Past in this instance is used to seek meaning throughout Harwood's twilight years, reflecting on life's journey. ... The omnipotent view in this rhythmic poetry only enforces that the end of life's journey is at hand; with only a multiplicity of memories as a stencil of Harwood's own h...

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Within the poem "Dark Pines under Water," Gwendolyn MacEwen describes an internal journey, in the mind of the reader, through a mysterious dream. ... An end result becomes a journey that encourages the reader to take part with the poem. ... MacEwen leads the reader through a journey into internality, where one must disarm the doubt within them....

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Life: A Long And Winding Road Through out life, we encounter many obstacles and joys in our "journey" towards death. ... Many people think of this as traveling through life, while others simply see it as going on a journey. ... These two poems, will be around for many years to come, and will stay with us throughout our "journey" of life. ...

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These three poems that share this common theme are "After a Journey,"" "The Haunter,"" and "Your Last Drive."" ... After a Journey By: Thomas Hardy Hereto come to view a voiceless ghost; Whither, O whither will its whim now draw me? ... In "After a Journey- the kennings that Hardy used are "nut-coloured-, "rose-flushed- (ll. 7-8), and "mist-bow-. ... What Collins wrote in his criticism on "After a Journey- seems to be right on the dot to what Hardy was going for. ... Ramazani's criticism of "After a Journey- just doesn't seem right. ...

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The Roads to the Future Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey through life. ... To this traveler, this one choice is the climax of his journey, his journey through life. ...

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Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey, life. ... This poem is not about a journey through the woods, but yet the journey of life and all the decisions one must face. ...

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In 1333 he made a journey through northern France and through Germany, recording his observations and experiences in his letters. Back at Avignon he journeyed to Italy in 1336. ... Refusing an offer to be principal of Florentine University, which was just started, he continued his journeys. ...

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This poem is a way for him to express his feelings of desperation and loneliness and get those feelings out of his system and continue on his journey. ... " about the reason he's climbing the mountain, in lines 9 to 12, Noyce is thinking about holidays, thinking of a easy way out, and this shows that he wants the whole journey to be easier, and that he doesn't want to continue anymore because it's too hard. ... There are no stanzas in the poem, instead Noyce writes the whole poem in one single fragmented unit, to resemble the long and endless journey he is facing. ... This...

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The journey through Hell showed Dante the magnitude to which our sins can affect our afterlife. ... Dante's started this journey to find his way out of the dark shadow of sin that haunted his life, he came out of the other side with a low tolerance for sin. ...

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Anne Bradstreet was the first published female poet. But in the time of Puritanism and strict moral codes, the progressive woman was looked down upon. The role of a woman was to cook, clean, milk the cows, and manage the household in the event of the absence of the man. But there were women like An...

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Epics can often be closed to the hero and his/her specific journey, but Whitman introduces a free nature that is open to all of life. ... "The Odyssey" is closed to the story of the hero and centers its plot around the theme of a journey, highlighting Greek culture particularly pertaining to heroism. ... He talks about a myriad of issues and deviates from the norm of presenting a hero and his journey. Rather, he addresses the world, inviting them all to be a part of a greater journey called life. ...

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Textual forms and features clearly illustrate his intellectual and emotional journey of coming to terms with change. ... The emotional and intellectual journey towards an acceptance of change is clearly portrayed in 'The Second Coming'. ... Through comparison of the two texts, our understanding of Yeat's emotion and cerebral journey of coming to terms with change is heightened, as we notice a shift in paradigm of rejection to acceptance....

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This poem is about a man leaving the women he loves in order to go on some type of extended journey. ... The women is described as the fixed foot because she is being left at home while the narrator goes on a long journey. ... In the last stanza this wonderful metaphor continues as the narrator talks about the necessity of the journey on which he is about to embark and tells his love in lines 35-36 that just like a compass "Thy firmness makes my circles just, and makes me end where I begun". ...

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In the beginning of the poem, Cook describes the way he is feeling about the journey: I took my leave of Albion's Rock With heavy heart, concerned that I Was forced my Native soil to fly, And the Old World must bid good-bye: But Heaven ordained it should be so. And to repine is vain we know. (4-9) As he sets off to leave his home in England for Maryland, he is quite concerned as to what the journey may bring. ... Bad manners, illness, theft, and mosquitoes plagued his journey. ...

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In "The Road not Taken," the theme indicates a man and a journey down a road rarely traveled by others and the differences it made by him choosing this. ... This poem also relates to a journey taken. It is as if Frost is giving the reader advice on having a goal and striving for it by embellishing in a journey rather than staying in one place. ...

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But the reader then understands the metaphorical meaning of the traveler's description of the woods and his journey that he must continue. The reader concludes that when the speaker of the poem depicts the woods as "lovely dark and deep", and conveys the continuous of his journey " and miles to go before I sleep" he is referring to isolation and menacing death. ... The lovely scenery of the woods tempts the traveler into staying longer, but he remembers the promises he has to keep, and his journey he must continue before resting. ...

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