As the baby begins to cry into the wee hours of the night, the mother carries her to a window and the two watch the night turn to day. ... The child tries a "handful of notes" and Plath relates the sounds of the vowels to a group of balloons rising. ... Lines seventeen and eighteen read, "Your handful of notes;/ The clear vowels rise like balloons.... It begins, "All night your moth-breath/", taking the silent action of a moth's wings and explaining the child's quiet breath. ... Not to mention the beautiful simile that ends the poem, "Your handful of no...

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Notes in the margin of my book, defacing the text, made it hard to read, but I could decipher some of my scribblings outlining the way the change had occurred. ... My notes had become almost indecipherable as I turned to '"'Nightfall'"'. ... The yearning is heightened by the number of single syllable words in the final stanzas, such as her realisation that '"'your night and day are one'"'. ...

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In Nurse's Song, the reader is able to relate to a person watching children play, and almost share the speaker's sense of uneasiness about the coming night. ... The speaker also shows her experience through her concern for the children, as night approaches in the second stanza. ... Important to note in both Nurse's Song and The Divine Image is, once again, how Blake creates human characters for readers to identify with. ...

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In the next stanza, he mentions a frozen lake, and that it is the darkest night of the year. Now we have a lake, and the dark night sky. ... While snow may represent a peaceful, calm evening, the night is described as the darkest of the year. ... The darkness of the night is death. ... Frost must continue through the snow, into the night. ...

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All night I feel their absence and I burn. " (21-24). ... When the maid notes at the end that she burns in the absence of the pearls that stay in her mistress' room, she may be hinting towards the fact that she actually burns to be in the bedroom with her mistress as well. When the maid notes that she feels the absence of the pearls, it could symbolize the longing and lust for her desire for the mistress to be in the bedroom with her. Even though the maid is not technically sleeping with her mistress, she might take joy in the fact that the pearls still contain her lingering body odor, a ...

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The reader must note that the poet who wrote "Cousin Kate" was a wealthy lady, and so could not have encountered the situation in her poem, whereas the poet for "The Seduction" could quite easily have experienced a teenage pregnancy. ... One the night of the party, the girl fell in love with the idea of being in love, not with the boy. ... She rips up all her "My Guy and her Jackie photo-comics" and breaks the heels of the high white shoes which she had worn that night. To the reader, it seems like she is trying to destroy the memories and what happened the night of the party. ...

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Despite the speaker's negative wandering thoughts, he wants to treasure the night with his lover. ... For the purpose of this discussion it is important to note Auden's sexual orientation; he was gay. ... It is functional to note that the rhythmic lines changes later in the poem, just like the rhyme scheme. ...

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At night when all the colours die, they hide in pairs and read about themselves in colour, with their eyelids shut. -- Craig Raine Craig Raine Born in 1945 in County Durham located North of England. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

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At night when all the colours die, they hide in pairs and read about themselves in colour, with their eyelids shut. -- Craig Raine Craig Raine Born in 1945 in County Durham located North of England. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

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In the last two lines, the speaker ends with the note that states "let those who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.... The speaker almost shames the feelings that she presented in the previous stanzas in the last lines, where she basically states that if it makes it easier for you to get through the night to hold this grudge on true love and those who enjoy it, so be it. ...

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It is important to note that the images here also give concrete detail. ... So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware. ...

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However, he also notes that nature is indifferent to his needs and therefore his desire is unobtainable. ... The alliteration used in 'thin and thistled' and 'night north' uses harsh consonant sounds which make the man - controlled landscape sound inferior to the countryside which is natural. ...

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