He must exploit the physical properties of the words themselves. ... Actoins of both scenes take place in the poet's mind but the movements in the rose garden seem more physical. ... This famous line juxtaposes a series of random things, but the effect is not the atmosphere of the melancholy characteristic of The Waste Land. ...
Apart from his ill intention, the villainous nature of Richard is also revealed through his physical deformities, making him look extremely unattractive. His physical appearance is suggestive of the idea that his character is as bad and ugly as his appearance. ... This dreadful physical appearance of Richard is somewhat similar to Dr Faustus' one in Marlowe's play, as his appearance is devilish and he used dragons in his activities. ...
Wordsworth was a firm believer that man should "find an immanent force that unites them with their physical and spiritual environments" (Jan Shoemaker p.1). ... Wordsworth just simply gave the obvious characteristics of the valley not enough to capture the true physical beauty of it. ...
The Mask of Anarchy: a Reflection of Shelley's Revolutionary Introduction Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was the only son of an aristocratic family: his father was an M.P. and his grandfather was a wealthy landowner. He educated at Eton College and entered the University of Oxford. There, he...
Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...
