Another issue in order to describe the poet's vision of nature is a comparison between some Wordsworth's verses in "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" and it consists in the two personifications of nature. . kind-hearted, benevolent woman who serves the good of mankind and the world. ... But the difference stays here; Tennyson crafts a woman to represent nature, but "she cries from cliff-top", she is not a nurturer who will not betray but one who cares for nothing, Tennyson's woman does not feed human mind, that is to say nature does not teach anything to the Fi...

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The king goes across the sea on a ship, and a storm arises and drowns all aboard. ... Morpheus is to go to the Great Sea (the Mediterranean) and enliven the king's drowned body with his own spirit. ... In her dream, Alcyone sees Seys at the foot of her bed, and he tells her that he has died and that she must find his body by the sea and bury it. ... This comedic turn shows the difference between the noble, allegorical characters in the story (Alcyone, Juno, Seys) and the realistic, human characters of the poet's world. ...

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He criticises the way of life in cities while longing for the isolation of the natural world. ... This desire for the isolation of the natural world isn't something he shares with other people. ... This suggests that Larkin feels a strong sense of content in the natural world. ... The language used to describe the natural world is much softer and romantic than that used to describe the city, thus conveying his favouritism of the natural world. There is also a powerful image of the land 'ending' and 'distance' over the sea. ...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure...

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"Christina Rosetti seems towards the dark side of life." Choose three poems and consider how far they support this view of her work. A common interpretation of the work of the 19th century poetess, Christina Rosetti, is that her work is depressing, morbid and highly pessimistic. However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." By looking at her use of language, imagery, themes and her addressee I shall explore to what extent I agree with the sta...

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Dust here is a metaphor for the speaker's relationship to the natural world and for the fact that he may soon be a corpse. ... The relationship between the speaker and the natural world is very close, even harmonious. ... Dust here is a metaphor for both the speaker's status as a corpse and for his relationship to the natural world. ... It's not that England and Italy were fighting yet (that didn't happen really until World War II). ...

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The mass destruction of the First World War led many towards more extreme affiliations, and both Fascism and Marxism held attractions for many intellectuals and workers, particularly during the 1930s. ... Some writers reacted to this situation by concentrating on a narrow, highly educated audience who would understand their alienation from this changing world. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. The First and Second World Wa...

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Allen Ginsberg's Motivation for writing Howl Richard Eberhart, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet of 1966, remarks, "Ginsberg's Howl ushered in a new generation." Many 20th century poets have attested to the freeing effect that Ginsberg's poetry had upon them in the late fifties. But to allege that Ginsberg's Howl "ushered in a new generation" of poetry is to degrade the true historical impact of his poetry. (Breslin 225) However, "Throughout the long history, poetry has relied on evolving rules about what a poem is, with new kinds of poetry building on earlier kinds to ...

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• Grade Level: High School