Question A great poem puts into words what we already know but had not thought of saying. ... In the poem, "Ambulances," Larkin speaks of death and how it is inevitable to all. ... This poem puts into words the thought of death as being an unyielding force that we are all aware of. ... In this poem specifically, Larkin puts into words his perception of death as something to be feared of. In both poem, Larkin uses a momentary observation and explores the meaning behind how people interpret these observations. ...

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Few lines in the poem set a silence and dreamy atmosphere. ... The rhythm exaggerates the seriousness of the poem. ... The rhyme scheme of the poem is aaba/bbcd/ccdc/dddd. ... Besides that, alliteration is also used in Frost's poem. ... As for Frost, the whole poem symbolises a journey in the woods. ...

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The poem is written in five quatrains. ... This is reflected clearly at the end of the poem. ... The first two words of this poem reveal strong feelings. ... The word "finished" is emphasized like other words throughout the poem, but the use of "finished" at the end of this poem fits accordingly. ... Emily Dickinson's views on death changed from poem to poem depending on her mood. ...

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Sylvia published her first poem at the age of eight and at the same time, she had to face the death of her father. ... One of the most famous poems that she wrote in October 1962, just before her death, is the poem "Daddy.... In fact, the poem "Lady Lazarus," is also influenced by her life experiences. ... Wagner says in her article: While Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus" is a poem "about" attempted suicide, it is perhaps more centrally a poem about the forces that drove her to consider that act. ... In conclusion, many of Sylvia Plath's poems have be...

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He wrote poems reminiscent of his childhood and lost innocence. ... The poem is broken down into three different stanzas. ... Nothing in this poem is actually based on Thomas" experience, unlike the next poem, "Fern Hill." ... Thomas" childhood on the farm is directly related to this poem. ... The third poem, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", is a poem about dying. ...

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When Johnson wrote a poem of praise or to express emotion he would still convey his message beyond reality. ... It is a poem of praise to the actions of the nephew of a friend of Johnson. ... In doing so he writes in the poem that his death is a release from a life spent in service. ... This is a different view of death than in Vanity of Human Wishes, a poem written earlier and discussed later. ... In shorter poems he utilized different techniques for a momentary escape from reality. ...

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Solaris, directed by Steven Soderbergh, is arguably the cinematic incarnation of the Pearl poet's literary poem, albeit with a more existential twist. ... Through his first person point-of-view, we see him lamenting a loss similar to the poem's narrator, that of his wife, Rheya. ... The poem's narrator and Kelvin both greet their respective pearls with a line of questioning. ... The Pearl Maiden provides a glimpse of heaven for the poem's narrator, New Jerusalem. ... But the poem's narrator will only truly earn his place in the kingdom when he begins to value t...

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The poem has many rhymes but does not follow a specific rhyme scheme. The speaker of the poem is Lady Lazarus, who begins the poem by telling readers that she has "done it again" (line 1). This starts the poem on a mysterious note, leaving readers asking: What has she done? ... She begins to grow bitter, as the poem gets closer to the end. ... It is clear that she grows stronger by the end of the poem as she rises "Out of the ash" (line 82). ...

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Constructed in 1925 Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" was one of many depressing pieces that had evolved during the period between both World Wars. ... In fact, everything is formless and colorless even the entire poem. ... Like the previous sections of the poem, part four dwells on a place that happens to be as "hollow" as its populace. ... The structure of the poem consists of regular rhythms and short linear lines. ... The lack of punctuation in the poem, not only reveals misdirection within the poem but it also mirrors Eliot's lack of direction within a lar...

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The Realizations Of Life The poem I chose to write about is William Wordsworth's "Ode : Intimations of immortality from Recollections of early Childhood" .The poem is about a man that is explaining his enlightenment in his mortality. ... The speakers imagination plays a big role in the poem. ... The speaker ends the poem pretty much as he started the poem with images of the things he will miss. ...

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", This poem holds, as its main theme, the premature death of a young athlete as told from the memories of a fond friend serving at his funeral. ... These lines of the poem, being of an optimistic nature, denote the athlete's positive impact on the narrator's ideals and memories he has. ... The persona in this poem is not the poet but the widow whose soliloquy reflects clearly her state of mind through simple diction and irrational transitions. ... The poem contrasts spring and all of its beauty, to death and all its heartache. ... By setting the poem in the springtime, Williams i...

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In her poem We Two she says "God's will is-not mine. ... (804) However, In Piatt's poem Giving Back the Flower, she writes about a married women who falls in love with another man. ... In the first stanza of this poem, before you know she is married, but romantically involved with someone else, Piatt's words show that there relationship is doomed. ... In this poem, God's will was the death of her lover. ... In her poem In Kittery Churchyard, she sets up a graveyard scene with vivid detail. ...

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In the first poem "Death, Be not Proud" John Donne takes the power away from death. ... In the second poem, "Do not Go Gentle Into that Good Night" Dylan Thomas encourages people to live complete lives before death comes and to fight death. ... By contrasting images of light and darkness in the poem makes the warmth of living and the coldness of death that encourages people to fight against death. ... In the poem he is not only telling to his father, he also encouraging to a larger audience to "rage, rage" against death. ... At the same time, Thomas also proved ...

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The tone that Owen uses is unchanged throughout the poem. ... The last few lines of the poem reveals Owen's pity for those, as himself, who were lied to about what war was and are now trapped by its endless effects on their consciousness. Just like Owen, Jarrell shows the horrific aspect of war in his poem and he is giving us an insight into war. ... Jarrell is using this poem to convey the fear of many young men who were taken away from their mother's comfort and shoved into this cruel situation. ... The last line of the poem is conceivably the best graphic picture to portray the...

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The poem "The Love Song of J. ... In this portion of his poem, Eliot uses the "eternal Footman- as a synonym for Death and to blatantly convey the narrator's fear (3). Another good example, within this poem, of careful ruminations about death is when Eliot writes "And would it have been worth it, after all,/Would it have been worth while- (4). ... Indeed, the importance of the poem seems to lie in forcing the same questions the narrator suffers upon the reader, as well. Although this discomfort originates within only the speaker of his poem, Eliot's intention is clearly to extend ...

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The group takes notice of the poem in each of their rooms about ten little Indian boys and how the murders so far have reflected the poem. ... When she arrives she find a noose waiting in the room for her, and remembering the last line of the poem, feels compelled to hang her self. ... He planned to base the murders on the ten little Indians poem that he loved as child for it inescapable deaths. ...

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Agee's Elizabethan poem, Permit Me Voyage, received its title from Crane's "Voyages III" (23). There are also many prevalent qualities that you could find in Crane's works that are easy to find in many of Agee's poems such as the constant theme of the ecstasy and omnipotence of love (23). ...

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The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient poem from the Mesopotamian Era that tells the story of two companions: Gilgamesh, the powerful and tyrannical demigod who rules as the King of Uruk, and Enkidu, a feral man who is created as an equal for the king by the gods, lifted out of nature and civilized by the touch of woman. ...

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