It is important to note; the poet has changed his focus from aging, to dying, to death and narrowed his scope to the close of one day. In the third and final quatrain the author speaks of a "deathbed" of ashes which maybe interpreted as the ashes of his youth.The same ashes or embers; once the fuel and provider of youthful energy; now are self consuming, bound for expiration and extinction.The timing, one notes, has yet again been refocussed to that of minutes possibly seconds. The reader should be aware the couplet contains no images or comparisons, giving the vers...

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Good commentary must include: - Clear organization - Understanding of literary techniques - Alliteration - Metaphors - she is snow - Onomatopoeia - words that are spelt in a similar way to the sound - Allegory - narrative using symbols - Euphemism - cold slumber (death) - Similes - white a...

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To begin with a macroscopic look at the poem, we note that it has thirteen questions (i.e., sentence fragments): seven question marks in the first half, and six in the second – an almost perfect numerical equilibrium. ... The next point to note is that all stanzas except the fifth one contain adjectives: "immortal", "fearful", "distant", "dread "(twice), and "deadly". ...

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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'"'. ...

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Sonnet 10 by Donne is a Petrarcan sonnet because it has an octet and a sestet. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBAABBACDCDEE. In the poem, the speaker talks about Death and claims that Death should not feel too proud because it is not as "mighty" as many claim it to be. In actuality Death doesn't k...

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Poetry Assignment In William Blake's poem "London", the speaker conveys London as corrupt and corrupting . The speaker presents his image of London through his many "wander[ings]" through its streets. He notes the despair of "every" Londoner and their oppression by the "church" and the state. In...

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Phillis Wheatley Behind the infamous poems of Phillis Wheatley lies and incredible and inspirational story of a young African girl and the struggles she overcame in her short life. Phillis Wheatley was born in Gambia, Africa around the year 1753. Her young age mase her unsuitable for sale in ...

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"Now" implies the immediacy of the reversion of the poet back to childhood - in other words - "Take note - this is a man-child writing!" ... Note the expressions which are a play upon clichés:- "happy as the grass was green" for the more popular "happy as the day is long" and "once below a time" in contrast to "once upon a time". ...

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It is interesting, however to note that Wordsworth also explains that in this excited state (where ideas to not follow each other in any particular order), there exists a "painful feeling which will always be found intermingled"(580). ... He notes that for all of his poems, "the principal object [. . .] was to make the incidents of common life interesting [. . .]. the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature" (574-75). ...

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However, in the trenches he realized how horrific the war was and started to make notes about the conditions at first. Then later in a military hospital he edited and collected these notes into the poetry of Wifred Owen. ...

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Literature is a faithful reproduction of life executed in an artistic pattern. It ha the power to set our imaginations soaring through a myriad lives and worlds. It can add something to what we already know about ourselves and the rest of humanity. It is written material such as poetry, novels,...

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Critical analysis on American literature I analyzed a selected poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson titled "Bacchus" written in 1847. In this poem I believe that he accurately depicted a metaphorical piece about everyone buying into things that weren't worth buying into, and jading their chance to boost ...

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Burns cleverly moves the poem through two transition stanzas (lamenting the loss of the privileged tax-free still of the upper-class and cursing the excise) to end on a note descriptive of his own ideal. ...

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In his poem, "Flame-Heart", Claude McKay expresses his longing for his homeland in a romantic fashion with non-racial themes. He uses vivid descriptions to show a great love of his home, Jamaica, conveying it's loveliness. Rhyme scheme and stylized nature also play a role in McKay's highly reminis...

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Elizabethan Sonnets In Elizabethan Age, the sonnets had advanced into a form with new metric and rhyme scheme that was departing from Petrarchan sonnets. Yet, Elizabethan sonnets still carried the tradition of Petrarchan conceit. Petrarchan conceit was a figure used in love poems consisting detaile...

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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." ...

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Tears, Idle Tears Lord Tennyson Alfred's poem "Tears, Idle Tears" is a brief account of a gentleman reminiscing on the days that are no more. The author has a tone of dismay and longing for certain moments in the past. Alfred uses similes, imagery and symbolism to mold his tone. Early in the w...

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For instance, line 25 of To Maecenas, " soon the same beauties should my mind adorn, and the same ardors in my soul should burn: then should my song in bolder notes arise, and all my numbers pleasingly surprise- As these lines indicate, Phyllis had a passion to write well as a poet and surprise her white peers. ...

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In "Domination of Black" Wallace Stevens tries to show the reader the realization of death. To portray this message Stevens uses "movement from the colors of things to the things themselves [and this is how] the realization of death in the poem is reaches" (Howe, 1978, p.44). In the first stanza ...

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In Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach," he uses the evolutionary symbol of the sea, or water. It goes from being just the sea, to a mythological type of a sea, to a personified sea. In this way, Arnold almost maps out his love for this unidentified audience in the poem. In the first stanza, the se...

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Another aspect worthy of note is the way the phrase mine own love's has been used repeatedly; in line 7 the persona speaks of the decay of his love and in the very next line he speaks of its strength. ...

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Theme: The poem deals, among other things, with the relationship between nature and humanity. At the start the poet is just observing the bird ("He did not know I saw"). She does not interfere, but she is not passive, as her observations are quite detailed e.g. noticing the Beetle. She is a presence...

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Daddy Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 Sylvia Plath wrote "Daddy" just four months before her death by suicide in February 1963. In the months, before she took her life she wrote two to three poems per day in a frenzy to purge her system of the chaos of her thoughts and emotions. Daddy is a confessiona...

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In "I heard a Fly buzz-; Emily Dickinson expresses to her readers about the emotional instability she feels while on her deathbed. She has written several poems about death, but this one differs from her other poems because it is told from her perspective, in accordance with her final moments. Th...

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Title of Work: Death, be not proud Author: John Donne John Donne's Death, be not proud is a particularly interesting poem that expresses the act of dying as something natural and pleasant abandoning the reputation it has held for being frightening or powerful. The speaker notes that th...

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