In what way in Tennyson's imagery of nature in "In Memoriam" distinctive from the Romantic Presentation of Nature as God-Nature? ... Through the analysis of some sections of this poem, it can be taken into account the relations to the romantic vision of nature and religion in Wordsworth's poem. ... In the first four lines of the preface, there are three characters: the Son of God, Love and human being. The poet refers to God like full of immortal love and "we", human being, have faith, although we have not proofs of the existence of God. ... She is his source for kindness, beau...

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• Grade Level: High School

The faery in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is illustrated in romantic notion as being a thing of natural beauty otherwise, as it would have to be for this poem to work, as the knight would never have fallen in love. Therefore, it again shows the typical style of writing in that day and age as everything is portrayed as being beautiful and natural, and as knights in shining armour- a romantic notion. ... This imagery actually shows a romantic side to nature and man, as the poem portrays man's ignorance towards nature's power, and therefore has nothing to stop him falling in love with nat...

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Barnard (1999) asserts that Keats is one of the great English romantic poets, whose prime belief was in art and beauty. ... These short romantic poems can be seen to be linked both structurally and thematically by a sequence of closely related problems and, as an effect, show Keats both at his most vulnerable and possessing the literary genius he has subsequently been accredited with. ... Keats has been "half in love with easeful death", and even through his rapturous praise of the Nightingale shows that this death would be seemingly more welcome than ever. ... The poem allows Keats to "transc...

• Word Count: 2837
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After the death of the two pigeons, Rosetti ends the second four-line quatrain with a mournful, prayer-like statement: "So farewell life and love and pleasures new." ... Because of their love and care for each other, they cannot be forced to part from each other even to save themselves. ... Never having married and enduring several failed relationships, it is not presumptive to assume that this poem stems from Rosetti's reflections upon her own love life. In line 11, the speaker makes the connection between their dream and reality by saying "I thought I turned towards you to weep; but yo...

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Behind his work is a deep feeling for life's fundamentals-love, loyalty, and awareness of nature and of God. ... Louis Untermeyer once said "his is a poetry which contemplates and sometimes criticizes the world, but regards everything about it with love, occasional amusement, and tender, tolerant pity. ... An old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer to children, Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me, (Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war, But soon my fingers fail'd...

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A critic has said that 'A theme which dominates Larkin's poetry is that desire is ultimately unobtainable' Discuss two or three of Larkin's poems in the context of this statement. In your answer you should consider: - The various forms of desire that Philip Larkin explores - The conclusions that...

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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 publica...

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Poe's Poems In personal appearance, Edgar Allen Poe was a quiet, shy-looking, but handsome man; he was slightly built, and was five feet, eight inches in height. His mouth was considered beautiful. His eyes, with long dark lashes, were hazel-gray. Poe's brain, on the other hand, worked on a ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The word "England" or "English" occurs six times in this poem. That's a lot for a poem that is only 14 lines! In this poem England is like a mother to the soldier; she gave birth to him, nourished him, made him who he is. But England is also immortal. Even though, in death, the soldier must leave En...

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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 2715
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School