Reason is the enumeration of qualities already known; imagination is the perception of the value of those qualities, both separately and as a whole. ... Abrams states that "no less characteristic of romantic theory is a set of alternative analogies implying that poetry is an interaction, the joint effect of inner and outer, mind and object, passion and the perceptions of sense" (51). ... Here, the veil, illusive and transitory as it is, is all we can distinguish and, in this sense, the veil is not only a metaphor of Life but also of perception itself. ... Here, Shelley refers to the ...

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Using poetic elements such as imagery and sensory perception, Poe illustrates a fairytale-like romance that is tragically cut short, perceivably by envious angels in heaven. ... The tone is also laced with blame and bitterness, but there is always a sense of love and beauty intertwined. ... Descriptions of the chilling, cold wind heightens our sense of touch and the depiction of the clouds paints a gloomy, depressing picture. ... The sensory perception definitely adds to the overall mood and meaning of the poem. ...

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Such is the optimistic perception that is reflected in Jibanananda Das's "Before Dying". ... Winter dusk probably symbolizing the seclusion and the sense of nostalgia that each one of us at some or the other time experience. ... The poet uses Indian words like "dhundul trees" and "akanda" reflecting his sense of belonging to his country, his passion for his land and the beauty that he observes and appreciates in each of its existing phenomena. ... When the poet mentions the "crows coming home expectantly" he is probably making a reference to our attachments, our sense of belonging to...

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Although "At the waters edge" is less of a perception of the past, it is more of the utilization of the present that Harwood uses to subjugate her own feeling of worthlessness in her so called "Kingdom of Sorrowing change." ... Even as far back as the opening stanza of "Alter Ego" that quotes: "who stands beside me still- is a Rhetorical question that also conveys a sense of the urgency or longing on the part of the poet to unravel her identity, thus this poem is clearly a self analysis of Harwood's own past, as she enters her twilight years. ... "At the waters edge" manages to portr...

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This gives the reader a sense of sighing and lengthen that clarifies the speaker's feeling. ... Her father, the Nazi, crushes her freedom of self-expression and sense of individuality. ... This demonstrates that she still loved him; she wanted her idealistic perception of him to be real. She uses this perception to choose the same husband as her father, "A man in black with a Meinkampf look" (line 65). ...

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The poem is based around the literal returning of passed soldiers in the sense that they were not appreciated. ... Furthering this sense of repetition is how it shows little regard and at the same time presents the soldiers impersonally - without a reverent identification. ... The use of personification and alliteration in the last stanza 'telegrams tremble like leaves' adds a distinct sense of abruptness further supporting the futility and wastefulness brought into existence by war and further assists the reader in envisaging the situation. ... The recurring references to them, as ...

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I think if someone has felt the pain that love can cause, that maybe their perception of the poem may be different from someone who has never felt the pain that is associated with love. ... The fact that the chapel is in the garden of love, I got the sense that the garden is the euphoria that one feels in love and the chapel is the hardship that happens to one that is in love. ...

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The main theme of "Desert Places" by Robert Frost is loneliness; perhaps the loneliness that Frost felt after each death of three of his children. The prominent subject of the poem involves nature and the course it follows. The speaker uses references of nature to describe the seclusion he/she fee...

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Q3, in hinting at the beloved's preference for a rival poet, tongue that more hath more expressed, ascribes the tongue-tiedness of the speaker to his new perception of the debased judgment exercised by the beloved. ... It has a sense of pride and provides a perfect end to the poem....

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Therefore it distracts her from the appropriate sense of an ending and her perception is skewed. It is also important to note that the light is more than just the physical sense, it is also defining her life. ...

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In a sense, Arnold shared with Carlyle the notion that the poet has a higher knowledge that s/he should communicate to the masses. ... However, this sense of social isolation is enhanced by a spatial isolation as well; typically, Tennyson's artist-like figures live in "an isolated environment of retirement apart from the concerns of ordinary people" . ... As mentioned before, the art poems are also characterized by what Simpson calls "the celebration of private, special perception" ("Elaine the Unfair" 344), which relates to the way in which the artist percei...

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Generally, imagery includes all kinds of sense perception (not just visual pictures). ... Dramatic Irony is a situation in which the reader or audience knows more about the immediate circumstances or future events of a story than a character within it; thus the audience is able to see a discrepancy between characters' perceptions and the reality they face. ... A drama may contain a single setting, or the setting may change from scene to scene Although theme is sometimes used in the same sense as motif to signify recurring concepts in literature, the term mainly refers to the argument ...

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These "sleight-of-foot tricks" being analogous to the poet's ability choose the perfect words of perception. ... With Ferlinghetti, the poet's perception and word choice are inextricably bound within the poem. The experience of the poet must ultimately be in a sense "poetic". ...

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Literature "organized violence committed on ordinary speech" (Eagleton) While the definition of literature has been widely disputed throughout history, British literary theorist, Terrence Eagleton, attempts to make sense of it all during the introduction of his 1983 book, What is Literature. He described literature as, "imaginative writing in the sense of fiction" (Eagleton 1). If one then believes that 'writing in the sense of fiction' is the meaning of literature then who is it that decides what is true and untrue - and thus ultimately, literature? ...

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In this sense, a sonnet will always be in the eye of the beholder as it lays with whom ever is reading and their viewpoint on the text. ... The unconventional subject matter of the sonnet reflects Paterson's statement in terms of the argument that the "eye of the beholder" is referring to the poet's individual perception of sonnet writing, as whilst the melancholic tone of this poem implies an inaccurate representation of what a love poem is to the reader. ... As the poem unfolds, we get a sense of a growing excitement and passion for her husband which is complimented by her choice o...

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The concept of change in this sense is portrayed through the prescribed text Feliks Skrzynecki, Migrant hostel, and 10 Mary St composed by Peter Skrzynecki, the stimulus booklet Text 1 "The Door" by Miroslav Holub, also the song "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chaplin and the novel The Poisonwood bible composed by Barbra Kingsolver. ... A sense of hopelessness is created in the third stanza by the phrase in brackets telling, "that the whole block has been gazetted for industry." ... These terms convey the sense of loss of identity caused by both the displacement and the institutionalization in t...

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Jason Nichols' poem "Our Generation" was written in early February 2014. Nichols was 14 and in eighth grade at the time he wrote the poem. The title "Our Generation" simply brings in readers to see what the speaker has to say. The poem starts off with heavy critique of today's generation. The meanin...

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In a broader sense you would believe that the fisher, which I will refer to as she, for sheer purposes of my understanding of the character, on a leisure fishing trip, has conquered the glorious fish and is prepared to take home her prize. ... Her perception on the events turns with her acknowledgement of the fish's loss of comfort of the water. ...

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This reflects Bradstreet's knowledge of the negative perception of female writers, and their supposed inability to create factual and historical poetry. In this submissive manner, Anne mocks that perception and tries to humble her own works. ... Bradstreet takes an argumentative tone in this stanza, obviously disagreeing with man's perception of woman, and confronting man's possible reaction to a good poem by a woman. ...

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The "soulful cries" (16) further strengthen this image by adding the sense of sound. This allows the reader to not only see the visual perception of defeat, but now the reader can hear it as well. ... Trochees, otherwise known as 'falling meter' means that the line begins on a stressed meter and then in a sense falls or continues alternating. ...

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This gives a penetrative sense to the poem. ... The poet's use of enjambment also evokes a sense of continuity: " more, // And still more-. ... There is a stark contrast between this stanza and the previous two; this stanza seems to endorse the stereotypical perception of autumn, as opposed to the other two stanzas, where autumn is apparent in a different light. ...

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In these "early" years, Frost was concerned with perfecting what he termed "the sound of sense." This was a description, in words, of raw sensory perception. ... Wall-building is social, both in the sense of "societal" and "sociable." ...

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Using the poem, she presents how African American women are depicted in the society and deflects the perception by encouraging the women to embrace cultural confidence and identity. ... She utilizes characterization, hyperbole, symbolism, similes, motifs, alliteration, sense impressions, biblical allusion, and literally allusion among others (Bloom 34). ... Although to some people Angelou may be viewed as a poet of moderate capability, her poetry is unique because it expresses honesty and is directed to achieve a sense of human dignity. ...

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Whether he was leaning on the gate at the edge of a wooded grove in casual observation or from fatigue, a sense of oppressiveness is underscored in the imagery given to us by Hardy. ... They resonate with the speaker's thoughts and emotions with the increasing removal from simple perception of details and a movement to more, full-blown details in the second stanza, as we will soon examine. ...

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He strays purposely away from the romantic side of the life cycle, by using words that have impact and offer a perception into hidden depths of life, which most poets would have never dared go... The exuberant overtones in this statement offer and outlook of the word in a different sense. ... Another example of Thomas's poems being florid is "After the funeral", this takes the word florid to be more in a sense of excessive description and detail. ...

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