These three poems that share this common theme are "After a Journey,"" "The Haunter,"" and "Your Last Drive."" ... Hardy tends to use many of the literary techniques, but mostly those of kennings and aprorias in his poetry (poems). Themes that Hardy tends to write about are those mostly of loss, or letting go. ... Hardy uses the literary techniques of aporia, kennings, hendiadys, personification, and alliteration in "After a Journey-. ... Some of the literary techniques Hardy uses in "The Haunter- are: aporia, alliteration, enjambment, kenning, imagery, and antistrophe. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century's major poets." and a leader of the modernist movement in literature T.S. ... This city had a monumental and life-altering impact on Eliot for multiple reasons, the most significant of which was his introduction to the influential literary figure  Ezra Pound. ... If one categorized Eliot's careers, he would probably be regarded as editor, dramatist, literary critic, and philosophical poet. ... His undergraduate ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of the obviously fundamental aspects of poetry is the language used and the literary devices employed, and Rosetti's poetry is certainly no exception to this. ... In my opinion this poem has two main themes, both of which greatly contribute to the overall feeling of the poem. ... The second underlying theme in "A Dream" is on a symbolic level, to understand which, knowledge of Rosetti's life is necessary. ... The first theme shown is the speaker's evident awareness of her mortality. ... The second theme, which is much more subtle, is the speakers exploration of the thin divi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The theme or plot of the piece is always subordinate to the author's calculated construction of a single, intense mood in the reader's or listener's mind. ... Despite his surface simplicity, Poe's artistry can be appreciated only when a reader explores his use of literary devices. ... Poe masterfully combines many literary techniques to fully achieve this spooky feeling. ...

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With "To lytel while oure blysse lasteth" [too little while our bliss lasts] (line 211), he leaves her, echoing a theme of this and other poems in Chaucer's love-poetry oeuvre. ... Analysis Burying the body of a relative with proper rites was a recurring theme in classical literature (such as in Sophocles' play  Antigone), so it was not surprising that Ovid would make it part of the story of Seys and Alcyone. ... Nevertheless, in a common literary reversal, the narrator endeavors to tell the reader anyway. ...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetry. ... Many nineteenth-century critics affirm that the romantic poetry tended towards egotism and excessive subjectivity, instead the Victorian project found literary and artistic means of bridging a series of what they considered to be binary oppositions such as: self and society, personal and political, subject and objective; it is what Tennyson did in his poem, that is to say finding public uses for very private experiences without bec...

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To label Goblin Market as a children's poem opens the door for Rossetti to explore "themes of the evil of self-indulgence, the fraudulence of sensuous beauty and the supreme duty of renunciation [which] become all the more sinister when disguised as whimsical child's play", without blatantly acknowledging to herself or to her readers that this is what she is doing. ... Amongst the "indelicate" themes interpreted within Goblin Market are homosexuality, incest, drug addiction and the pain of rejected sexual desire. ... These themes in Goblin Market, in the eyes of Germaine Greer, stem...

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The poetry of John Keats articulates an astonishing literary liturgy, which has influenced much of the study of nineteenth century literature; though during his short lifetime he was deemed to be a "lower class cockney," and an ignorant, unsettled "pretender" to a higher culture. ... These short romantic poems can be seen to be linked both structurally and thematically by a sequence of closely related problems and, as an effect, show Keats both at his most vulnerable and possessing the literary genius he has subsequently been accredited with. ... This theme runs directly through the core of hi...

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Walt Whitman(1819-1892), broke the literary tradition of his time with regards to content, form and style of his vigorous verse. ... Although they often deal with the same themes, their approaches differ and both pioneered their own unique style of writing. ... In fact, the title highlights his love for individuals: each leaf of grass possesses its own distinct beauty, and together the blades form a beautiful unified whole, a Whitman's theme explored in the sixth section of "Song of Myself", in which he again "works to downplay expectations about authorial mastery"(Lar...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ... It was largely a poetry of urban themes; the Romantic dependence on nature had already declined. ... His poems are largely traditional in theme, form, and structure, and show a continuity with the Wordsworthian art of recording the impact of ordinary daily events on an individual and sensitive mind. ...

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• Approx Pages: 42