their cries rising/in waves skill as the skillful yachts pass over." (30-33) It is with Williams" use of massive enjambments and lack of punctuation that allows the reader to become enraptured in a world of conflicting social classes without interruption and enables the reader to read with the conviction of the cruelty of the "dog eat dog" world. ... The "sea" (1), which Williams so fervently writes of, describes the sea of faces of those challenged with poverty. ... He again uses the same "f" reiterations to heighten the meaning of a "fleckless" and "free" (17) world that echoes such words ...

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To his coy mistress The road not taken Sea Fever To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell - 1621-78 Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. ... This is how love should be enjoyed in an ideal world. ... We both wonder what if ' Sea-Fever - John Masefield - 1878-1967 I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick...

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Neruda lived by the sea at Isla Negra, where he spent most of his time at. ... The speaker is (here) in this world and his beloved is (there) far away in the world beyond. ... Far away the sea sounds and resounds. ... The "sea sounds and resounds" symbolizes memories gathered in time. ... The grief of separation is immense in this poem because the speaker is alone here in this physical world. ...

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Eliot is the name of a major poet in the English-speaking world of the twentieth century. ... Marxist Criticism Marxism is a way of seeing the world around us through the economic terms. ... "He often feels disjointed and separated from the world around him. ... He views the world negatively and is a pessimist. Furthermore, he states "I should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floor of silent seas" it is a clear example of low self-esteem because he wants to be a sea creature rather than a human being, the reason behind is that, a sea creature basically has a...

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Thomas says in the poem, "Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; / Though lovers be lost love shall not" (7-8). ... The second stanza works with images of death and of torture, and plays on the paradox that the broken will remain whole: "And death shall have no dominion / Under the windings of the sea" (10-11) is referring to someone dying under the sea, and "Split all ends up they shan't crack" (17) is referring to the paradox that the broken will remain whole. The third stanza is saying that whatever happens to the world, death will never rule. ... He is only around u...

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During this romantic era many writers sought to unite the tranquility of nature and the inner emotional world of men. His purpose for this came about for the reason that William Wordsworth believed that the world was "too fast paced, too noisy, to full of mindless entertainment". ... One primary theme that William Wordsworth focused on in his poetry is nature as it could be represented in the poem "The World is too much with us". ... "This sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For th...

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Wilfred Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est about the first World War, in which he had personally fought. ... The next metaphor featured occurs in the next line - As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. This situation is linked to the earlier use of the word floundering, and carries on the sea theme in a more definite way. The man is giving up the fight, onomatopoeic of the desperate fight for air under a sea. ... Although in this case gas replaces sea, the concept is still basically the same - suffocation. ...

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Frost loved natural beauty, but nevertheless he recognized the harsh facts of the outside world. ... Frost's struggle with the traditional faith-based view of the world and the rise of science can also be linked to his poetry. ... This imagery is based upon his true and strong perception of a real world which exists outside him. ... They look at the sea all day.      ... The land may vary more            But wherever the truth may be--      The water comes ashore,            And the people look at the sea. 7      They cannot look out far. ...

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The twelfth line and last of the stanza goes, "A far sea moves in my ear.... The only conclusion I can reach from this is that of when someone takes a sea shell to their ear and it sounds like the ocean. ... " It is almost as if the mother is releasing the child into the world. ... As the mother wakes to hear her child's soft breaths, "A far sea moves in my ear", she is taken to a gentle and comforting place. ...

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The first aspect of interest is Keats" development of the cruel reality of the world that surrounds the speakers. ... To this the speaker asks, "What little town by river or sea shore, / / Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?" ... He feels the intense pain of living in a cruel and unforgiving world. ... He realizes that there is beauty within the world, which is represented by the blissful song of the nightingale. ... The worlds that Keats describes in these two poems are full of sorrow, pain, and suffering. ...

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It is the inner world of the emotions that move this dreary quill, and indeed his emotional state is what creates the fantastic chilling of The Raven; "And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain/Thrilled me-filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;/So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door'" (Poe 12). ... His literary work was an indictment of futility, as well as a lifeline into a sea of troubles. ... Surcease from suffering is prophesized not to be found in the a...

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After all, she wanted to move to another part of the world. ... For example, the poem "Florida" is filled with astounding visual and tactile imagery that only someone with intimate knowledge of the land could write: Tanagers embarrassed by their flashiness and pelicans whose delight it is to clown; who coast for fun on the strong tidal currents in and out among the mangrove islands and stand on the sand-bars drying their damp gold wings on sun-lit evenings (Bishop, lines 11-16) After reading this, one can almost feel the "damp" wings of the pelicans and can envision thes...

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Another attack on the white world comes in his piece "Ballad of Roosevelt-. ... Its tone reeks of depression and self-pity, "On the shoals of Nowhere, Wasted my song Yet taken by the sea wind And blown along."" ...

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Another of his poem collections, "Sea Drift", Whitman swings to transcendentalism the poems often-contained universal themes of separation and love. ... Whitman will always be remembered for his nearly omniscient view on the world with respect to his poetry. ...

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This poem lets the readers build up a picture of what men during the First World War had to endure; pain, food rationing, trench foot, mustard gas and even if you were very unfortunate, you could be lying in no-mans-land injured, screaming and shouting. ... "Like a deaths sick of sin-, here Owen tries to get us to imagine the devils face to be twisted, deluded and covered in green pus like that of the "green sea" of gas which so easily "choked" and "smothered" the boy and the added pain of being "sick of sin." ...

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What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn? ... " In contrast, Keats says, the love between a man and a woman in the real world is imperfect, bringing pain and sorrow and desire that cannot be fully quenched. ...

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With their sentimental and dreamy idilic view of the world, they were an important influence on Yeats' first poetic efforts. ... Initially the poet describes the natural world. ... And therefore I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium. ... Thus, in "Sailing to Byzantium" Yeats contrasts the world of "sensual music," with the holy city of Byzantium". ...

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Duffy is world-renowned for her skilful intermeshing of intertextuality in her literary works, and, in this specific poem, we can assume that she alludes to Vincent Van Gogh's painting: "Starry Night". ... " This consolidates the notion that the addressee is absent from the speaker's life in a world of perpetual life and death. ... This is consolidated in the speaker's description of "sea, crazy for the shore" in lines 9-10, and the speaker's illustrious description of the sun as "ardent" in line 11. ...

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The poem England 1819 written by Percy Shelley is categorized by its political and religious discourses and the powerfully emotive language characteristic of the Romantic Poets of the time in which it was written. It also shows the social criticisms or protests that the author enjoyed, as well as the other Romantic's did. The monarchy and rulers of the time are seen in the poem as unfeeling and leech-like such as in the line "rulers, who neither see, nor fell, nor know." The exploited and abused the working class for their own personal gain. "A people starved and stabbed" is an exa...

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I might be sighting a tea-clipper, Tacking into the bay, Just back from Canton With her hold full of green and blue porcelain, And a Chinese coolie leaning over the rail Gazing at the white spire With dull, sea-spent eyes. ...

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