The poem I felt a funeral, in my Brain by Emily Dickinson is a dream about the speaker's death. This is evident because of the capitalization of brain in the line "I felt a funeral in my Brain,"" In the poem the speaker does not only discuss the physical aspects of dying but also the process of mourning. ... The service is described to be like a drum and that is " beating "beating "till I thought/ My Mind was going numb "" Again, the repetition and the word numb shows how as they speak about her life the poet is aggravated that she has to leave it behind. ... The next li...

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In Robert Frost's poem, "Tree at my window," the author uses imagery to characterize the relationship between the speaker of the poem and the tree outside his window. ... Frost uses phrases such as "my sash is lowered" and "curtain drawn" (line 2-3) to convey that the speaker has let his guard down and given into sleep. ... Their two worlds are separated by material space, but the speaker finds the similarities to join them. ...

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Though sonnets are usually written in groups of four lines, or with no space between the lines at all, Frost uses three to isolate the stanzas so there is more white space on the page, which contributes to the reader's experience of isolation. The final lines look even more lonely that the previous groups of three, with all the white space and the lack of the third line. ... I have passed the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. ...

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She - At His Funeral They bear him to his resting-place-- In slow procession sweeping by; I follow at a stranger's space; His kindred they, his sweetheart I. Unchanged my gown of garish dye, Though sable-sad is their attire; But they stand round with griefless eye, Whilst my regret consumes like fire! ...

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In line 3, "It sits looking over harbor and city," tell us it has taken up more space now. ... "Each morning I wrote my name/ on the dusty cabinet, then crossed/ the dining table in script, scrawled/ in capitals on the back of chairs/ practicing signatures like scales" (lines 1-5). ... In my opinion, I believe the central theme of this poem is that the girl wants to be better than her mother. "She erased my fingerprints from the bookshelf and rocker," she is explaining that she wants to accomplish things that are different than her mom but her mom wants her to fol...

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Walking down 10th street, I was surrounded by small townhouses that all looked pretty much the same; the whirling, chilly breeze of autumn tingled at my bare neck and causing shivers down my spine. ... I constantly shifted from one foot to another impatiently looking for my final destination. ... As I stepped inside, I was greeted by a wave of warm air that calmed my nerves. ... I found my way down the hall and settled down in the middle seat for the best view of the poets. ... Ms Umansky began with " The Art Of Unloving" a memoir about her marriage and divorce, followed by two poems...

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The speaker kicks off the poem by declaring that a man who claims he's been in love for an hour is crazy, "He is stark mad whoever says That he hath been in love an hour, Yet not that love so soon decays, But that it can ten in less space devour;" (1-4). ... The speaker questions, "If'twere not so, what did become Of my heart when I first saw thee? ... It follows, "Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though the be not unite " (25-28). ... "And now, as broken glass show A hundred lesser faces, so My r...

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In my view, the poem works out Hughes's apprehension, his feeling that his ability to understand the emotions that generated this form of artistic expression was not on a par with the expression itself This is indicated by the last line of the poem, where the speaker notes that the piano player "slept like a rock or a man that's dead." ... He never enters that space whereby the piano player is speaking for him, giving utterance to his loneliness. ...

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My interpretation of a Romantic is someone who loves nature, and finds it to be the utmost enjoyable. ... This shows, Emotion and Imagination reveal more truth than intellect and logic because he spaces out during the Astronomy lecture and ends up finding out more than the lecture could have taught him. ... I have learned that the values from above can change my life. If I choose to get in touch with my self through nature, or if I decide to create a new individual, I can make my life more meaningful thanks in part to all the writer's, poets, and movies I have had the chance to learn f...

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Perhaps the most traditional of her poems is the well-known "South of My Days" with its nostalgia for an idealized Australian past. ... Her own strong relationship to this past is evident in the first person possessive pronoun of the title and the metaphor "part of my blood's country" but this also imitates an Aboriginal phrasing about the connection to land, suggesting an indigenous presence which is absent from the rest of the poem. ... This time the singer is not a bush storyteller as in 'South of my Days' but the earth struggling to make a "cry ...

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Rent can also be perceived as the owning of a property and also the security of having your own living space. ... In stanza number 9 Clifton says that "my mama has made bread" she wants to emphasize the luxury that she has of eating bread so she repeats good times afterward. ...

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By contrast, Shelley invites the reader to imagine and ponder upon the vast empty desert which occupies the space where Ozymandias once lived and ruled. In my opinion I enjoyed Richard Cory the most as his death is sudden, shocking and unexpected. ...

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