It would be similar to priests revealing the mysteries of their faith to "the laity-, that is, to ordinary people (8). The loud display of grief upon separation would therefore desecrate the sacred love the speaker and his lady to the less elevated love of ordinary people. ... In the third stanza, the speaker again refers to the unrefined love of ordinary people in contrast with the love between him and his lady. The upheavals in the lives of ordinary lovers on earth are earthquakes ("Moving of the earth-) that brings "harms and fears- (9). ... In "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning-, Donne...

• Word Count: 988
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Also, an important part of this theme was the effects love may have on people such as fear, joy, pride, vanity and obsession as demonstrated by the speaker. ... "Porphyria's Lover" is not a sensitive love poem; it is a poem that shows what love can sometimes do to people. ... The third B flows with the poem, yet appears slightly out of the ordinary. ... This is another way Browning helps the reader understand that the speaker is out of the ordinary. ...

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His poems present ordinary people in ordinary situations and does not concern itself with religion or God. ... Since Frost's poems were written for a particular audience, he is not reprimanded for his lack of acceptance of others, therefore his success lies in his ability to "write to please," he writes what he knows people like him would want to read. ...

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Although Frost uses ordinary subjects, he tends to use a wide variety of emotions, allowing his poems to shift from humor to tragedy. ... The poems opening line, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall", implies that walls are unnatural, and that the vague "something" is a force of nature that destroys the walls people build. ... He adds humor and tragic tones in his poems which he concentrates on ordinary subject matters of life. ...

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As part of Yeats" obsession with history in his poetry, a common idea among many of Yeats" poems is that the ordinary and seemingly insignificant aspects of life can lead to sweeping historical changes and the ends of epochs. "Long-Legged Fly" (1939) is a poem which presents the intimate sides of great people such as "Caesar" and "Michael Angelo." ... The idea of the ordinary and seemingly insignificant is reinforced with imagery of the every day, such as in the passage, "Quiet the dog, tether the pony/To a distant post." ... Each stanza characterises one of the three important people from dif...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Jeffrey described Wordsworth's stylistic simplicity as affectation and his focus on ordinary people and events as bathetic"(371). ... "The principal object, then, which I proposed to myself in these poems was to chose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men; and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situatio...

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This intelligible religious imagery depicts, through the death of the flea, the destruction of a union between two people. ... Donne's use of intricate language allows for the use of wit to breakdown the barriers ordinary language imposes. ... Although it was common for the "poem to partake in the extensive tradition of erotic poems centred on flea's", and was not entirely innovative, it still seems odd that a base insect could be used as ordinary imagery of love. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The factory had provided jobs for the people of Millom for around one hundred years, and was clearly a core part of Milloms social history. ... The idea of the drumming and hum gives an impression that the factory's noise was of a comfort to the people of Millom, as it would be a sound that they would have grown up with and not known any different. The fact that this new found silence is described as roaring is maybe not so ridiculous (even though it is an oxymoron) as it is something so out of the ordinary for them and so can imaginably be more piercing and unsettling than the constant b...

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In the second line, the speaker refers to himself as a member of the "people on the pavement " (2), which does not include Cory. This sets him apart as an outsider that is regarded in a higher status, since he does not walk on the pavement with the rest of the ordinary crowd. ... He most likely had the privilege of being wealthy his entire life, which would explain why he has no interactions with the people who live down town. ...

• Word Count: 809
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

God is presented in ordinary everyday things, "I a child and thou a lamb, we are called by his name". ... People have to work for a living other vise they will die and after a while we would all die out. ...

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Maya Angelou Maya Angelou is a very triumphant woman. She has written many books and poems that have given her great success. If one would talk to her, he or she would think she has lead a normal, happy life. Her life is blissful now, but it wasn't always perfect. Maya Angelou's sorrowful li...

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Dove says that she spent most of her time as Poet Laureate " educating young people in matters of poetry and bringing real poetry into real life... So by helping introduce people to poetry and widening the audience for poetry, I do think my term has served a more serious purpose."" ... In Thomas and Beulah, Dove uses "the theme of the ordinary individual, the unknown individual, caught up in history."" ... She says "...what I was hoping to hand down was a sense of two very normal people living through a period of incredible change in the U.S."" ... But this poet has given voice to people who d...

• Word Count: 1934
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

Dunbar had the help of many people throughout his life. ... He was a poet who wrote using the dialect of his people, and African American folk language. ... The poem "Sympathy" is an example of the yearning freedom that many people felt. ... Paul Laurence Dunbar was a great African American poet who shaped many peoples lives. ... Dunbar was just an ordinary person until he took a chance, and succeeded at that chance. ...

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Initially, the puritans controlled the literary work and defined moral and social standards of the people (Naeem, 2010). ... In the poem, he describes ordinary human beings in heroic terms. ... Through the proposal, Swift exposed the ruthless British rulers who were exploiting the Irish people. The British rulers had taken so much from the Irish people that the only thing left for them to trade was their children. ... He wrote the proposal at a time when the British rulers had enslaved a large number of the young people from Ireland. ...

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Although some of his language is far from ordinary, the style in which he writes is very common. ... In the second stanza, we are told of the harshness of the Yukon and the people who believe that it is wasted land. ... He tells us about the people, like himself, who appreciate, cherish and love the Yukon despite its pitfalls. ... These quotations express the theme that we cannot simply forget people, places or situations that have had an impact on our lives. ...

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Throughout the poem, Dickinson uses different types of figurative language, and imagery like metaphor, repetition and symbolism and others; these help her create a poem that people can understand it in many ways. ... Many people use the "Grim Reaper" or a related dreadful person, but in this case Death is polite man. ... The speaker's slow drive in the carriage displays a metaphorical logic of timelessness in the after life, where people do not have any rush in any expedition. ... As the speaker goes by her childhood happy memories are brought from her ordinary life. ...

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In conclusion, the poet was trying to say that Jews are very unfairly treated, and they have no opportunities compared to "ordinary" people. ... Even though it's been about 75 years since this poem was written, it is still a current issue in today's society, as discrimination is a problem that many people face. There have been some changes, yet some people are still being discriminated and treated with prejudice. ...

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Born in San Francisco in 1874, Robert Frost was an American poet who was much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, his wide use of American colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations. ... Roads have long fascinated people, whether as metaphors for life, change, journeys or parting, and in this poem the roads are believed to be metaphors for choices, or decisions. ...

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When the sun is personified, as it is in this poem, it is usually so that the people on Earth can idolize it. ... "Thou, sun, art half as happy as we," (25) would initially appear to be an ordinary love-sick statement that belongs in a love poem. ... In fact, these seemingly important people are simply trying to mimic the lovers. ...

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The reader can picture these two situations, a child examining an ordinary object as if it is suddenly extraordinary. ... Life often ends as the poem does, in a gray boring blend; the purpose of this poem is to advise people to take advantage of their early years so they will have something to remember in those last years of life. ...

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The poem is used to describe things of our world that his people (the Martian) will understand. ... Raine forces the reader to see for the first time things he or she has been glimpsed - and maybe even taken for granted - during a lifetime in a twisted and mixed language to revive the ordinary. ...

• Word Count: 1520
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The poem is used to describe things of our world that his people (the Martian) will understand. ... Raine forces the reader to see for the first time things he or she has been glimpsed - and maybe even taken for granted - during a lifetime in a twisted and mixed language to revive the ordinary. ...

• Word Count: 1520
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"Compare and contrast William Blake's "The Tyger" (1793) and William Wordsworth's "Strange fits of passion I have known" (1798/1800). Both "Strange fits of passion I have known" and "The Tyger" were written during the "Romantic Period", generally taken to extend from the outbreak of the French Re...

• Word Count: 1115
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Though a symbol has been used extensively since the pre-Islamic period, modern poets' innovation lies in their intermingling of mythical items with ordinary symbols to serve the multi-purpose poetic objectives such as expressing their views concerning socio-political aspects and criticizing the pitfalls of their societies. ... Al-Magaleh suffering abroad for being away from homeland and his dear ones, made him state "one of the basic characteristics of the structure of the Yemeni psychology, and new migrations of real people and mythical figures supported and still support this view."" ...

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Here we see Seamus Heaney reflecting on himself as a patriot, fully seeing and understanding the sacrifices made by his earlier generations for the freedom of the Irish people. ... Man is made to own things, to transform objects, land, people?... People kill for revenges and for possession. ... He talks of isolation and exclusion from society in Punishment as the victims are brought out as a tribal humiliation, a tactic used to warn people to live by the law. Unlike people who physically fight for their freedom, Heaney is expressing his oppositions through words. ...

• Word Count: 1879
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School