Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. The poems that I scrutinized written by Robert Lowell were Skunk Hour and For the Union Dead. ... The use of the oxymoron can viewed in Lowell's poem, For the Union Dead: Ciuro 5 in a Sahara of snow now. ... Eliot's poems, The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. ... Hilbert also mentions that while riding a cab after his departure from the airport, the driver turned around to find him dead in the back seat....

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The next lines portray an image of repetitiveness and uselessness: Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats" feet over broken glass In our dry cellar The consecutive use of the word "dry" conveys a feeling of deadness. ... Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom Let me go nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear deliberate disguises Once the poet has experienced dream's kingdom the desire to live in Paradise is much stronger than his desire to remain a member of a "dead lan...

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" Broken/beaten, desolate, reaching from the dead to be taken up/they cry out, failing, failing! ... "contend in a sea which the land partly encloses/shielding them from the too-heavy blows/of an ungoverned ocean which when it chooses/tortures the biggest hulls, the best man knows/ to pit against its beatings, and sinks them pitilessly." (1-5) The first letter beginning the powerful sequence of tercets is oddly lowercased. ... It is interesting how Williams uses the word, "too" (2) to expl...

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has several meanings: the idea of tallying up or recording costs or grudges or numbers in a competition as in time's losses and gains reduced to dead stems; the act of notching the sky which is visually accurate if one is looking up through vines; and the idea of a written orchestration or musical score which lead the observer to think of music and stringed instruments that are broken. ... The first sentence shows the speaker's mind encompassing huge spaces of land and sky into the frightening spectacle of theCentury's corpse? ... The land's sharp feature seemed to be Th...

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This poem lets the readers build up a picture of what men during the First World War had to endure; pain, food rationing, trench foot, mustard gas and even if you were very unfortunate, you could be lying in no-mans-land injured, screaming and shouting. ... The awful weather, day after day, causing the land they walked over to turn into slime. ... They have to fight their way through the slushy, pasty land. ... Owen uses the expression "flung" to address to us that men half dead had been given no respect and treated as though there is no hope for them in recovering. ...

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Carew writes: Ask me no more where those stars light That downwards fall in dead of night; For in your eyes they sit, and there, Fixed become as in their sphere. ... It truly is a beautiful thought to see a star fall from the sky and land in this beautiful woman's sparkling eyes. ...

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A path from romanticism to modernism. The stylistic evolution of Yeats" travels through several stages across his career. Initially as a young poet, Yeats wrote much literary ornate verse. From his first publication in 1885 he"d been much influenced by the pre-Raphaelites. A group of artists a...

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