This man will have to either push the dead doe off the road and into the river, or leave it here and give the fawn a slim chance at life. ... And also the aspect of accepting death, in Frost's poem civilization does not care after the boy dies, but in Stafford's the man making the decision cares deeply of the young fawn inside the dead doe. ...
In the movie Dead Poets Society, A young man by the name of Neal Perry goes out to play "Puck" in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", against his father's strict orders not to. ... The movie of Dead Poets Society shows this value well, when Charlie Dalton paints Indian symbols on his body to celebrate his new found identity know as "Nuanda". ... From Thoreau to Dead Poets Society they have all taught me to live life with a different meaning. ...
"Bringing", "picking", "zipping", "tagging", and "giving" once again provide a horrible contrast between the living and the dead, as the verbs indicate the vibrance and life of those bringing home the dead lifeless bodies. Furthering this methodical sense is the repetition of "they"re", which detaches the living from the dead and shows the lack of compassion which is afforded to those who have died for our country, building the image of the mass quantity of the dead. ... Where "dogs in the frozen sunset" are these dead soldiers only greeting shows again, the lack of respect they are given a...
The dead man appears to be a good man, and is concerned about everyone he left behind in the living world, and wants to know if they have moved on. ... The dead man's friend seems to be unfaithful, not lying to the dead man, yet not telling him the whole story of what is going on in the living world. It seems to me that the friend of the dead man is sleeping with his wife. The dead man's sweetheart is not weeping any longer and is well contented, and this gives me the impression that the sweetheart and the friend may have arranged the death of the deceased man. The poem seems ...
There is a confusion of tenses, "the dead man lay moaning", however, the poet is using the dead man as a symbol for her own feelings of isolation; by just existing he embodies all she is trying to say and so is in effect "moaning" to her. ... The poet uses the first person narrative ambiguously and speaks on two layers using the persona of the dead man to speak her own thoughts. ... It becomes apparent that people did not realise how the dead man felt, putting his death down to a practical joke gone wrong "he always loved larking". ... The cold factual tone of "And now he's dead" shows...
In "Traveling through the Dark", Stafford used a dead deer as a symbol of nature ruined by the act of man. ... The poem was based on a story about a man traveling alone at night who encounters a dead deer. He pulled over to roll the doe off the road because he felt that if he did not move the deer other drivers might have come upon the deer, try to swerve and end up killing themselves: "It is usually best to roll them into the canyon: that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead" (stanza1, lines 4 & 5). ... In "Traveling through the Dark" like in "The Bull Moose" the people in both ...
"The Anxious Dead," by John McCrae and "A Page from Our History," by Raymond Souster, both poets are about brutal wars and poor soldiers. ... "The Anxious Dead" is very formal and lyric poetry. ... "The Anxious Dead" described the real exact situation and feeling of the middle of the war while "A Page from Our History" used contrast between Mackenzie and Steve; one became an easy hero, while the real hero lost everything, his physical body and money. ...
We must first understand that a carrion is a dead carcass of an animal. ... Baudelaire moves from discussing the smell of the dead animal to the actual process of decay, which isn't really a happy thought. The flies have swarmed the dead beast and make it appear as a dark black cloud has descended upon the carcass. ... Baudelaire then states his purpose in describing the dead corpse when he says "And even you will come to this foul shame". ... Death is a sad thing and the reader is reminded that one day they will be just like the dead animal. ...
The foremost section of the poem introduces the seemingly routine task of transporting dead bodies as if it were trivial. ... Additionally the word 'them', integrated so casually, supports the dehumanizing tone intended to display detachment of the living from the dead. ... 'Bringing', 'picking', 'zipping', 'tagging', and 'giving' once again provide a horrible contrast between the living and the dead, as the verbs, as simple as they are, indicate the vibrancy and liveliness of those bringing home the dead, lifeless bodies. ... This m...
The graveyard draws the living still/ but never anymore the dead," (lines 1-4) clearly illustrates the background. ... Throughout the poem, Robert Frost uses a cheerful rhyme scheme with short and long i's (hill with still, and rhyme with time), and he talks about the theme in a mocking tone with oxymorons (grassy tread, graveyard draws the living, dead will come, men are shrinking, now forever, believe the lie). ... The author uses the gravestones as a motif that symbolizes the dead and personifies the gravestones as dead humans with the experience of death. ... "How no one dead will ...
In the first stanza Stevens gives the descriptions of all the characters but the dead, which due to the customs of the times were most likely neighbors of the deceased. ... The only reference to the dead woman in the first stanza is in line 7, "Let be be finale of seem", which not only reveals the unimportance of the deceased, but shows the indifference of the characters to her death. ... The second stanza contains the description of the dead woman and a couple of her belongings (not to mention a much darker undertone). ... Still, the dead woman is covered with a sheet of her own making, show...
In the first stanza he writes about the dead leaves and it be driven away by "Autumn's breath." ... He begins with fall and winter, seasons referred to dying and being dead. Winter is a season of things being dead however it is a cleansing period were the cold kills bacteria and germs. ... For dead thought grows a beautiful story, like winter and spring. ...
The poems that I scrutinized written by Robert Lowell were Skunk Hour and For the Union Dead. ... A simile can be recognized in T.S Eliot's poem The Waste Land: *** The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble, *** *** (ll. 77-78) (DeRoche, 342) The appliance of the simile can also be noted in Robert Lowell's poem For the Union Dead: Once my nose crawled like a snail on the glass; (ll.5) (DeRoche, 445) *** Their monument sticks like a fishbone ...
Also, there are other things like magic and drugs that can make men sleep just as well as they would if they were dead and therefore there is no reason for Death to hold any sense of pride. Furthermore, people aren't eternally dead because the next step is after life where they are immortals. ...
However, the ship's captain, to everyone's grief, has "Fallen cold and dead" (Line 8). ... The rhyme scheme of the poem is AABBCDED, the last words of the first stanza are "done"(a) "won"(a) "exulting"(b) "daring"(b) "heart"(c) "red"(d) "lies"(e) "dead"(d). ...
The family goes out to the back porch to find a dead animal hanging, twisting from a rafter. ... The family goes out to see this recently dead animal. ... The fact that this family goes back in the summer to escape the city sounds and have a relaxing evening and cannot sleep as a result of the creaking ropes allows the reader so once again see the dead elk swinging, creaking on a rafter the porch. ...
The tigers represent Rich's poetry, because in her poem it says "that even after Aunt Jennifer is dead, the tigers that she created will go on." This means her poems will go on being read by people, even long after she is dead. ... In "When We Dead Awaken" Rich stops sounding so bitter towards life and herself by directing her feelings in her poetry. ...
By examining this poem, the reader will see that Shelley can only reach his inspiration by having the wind carry his "dead thoughts" (63), which through an apocalyptic destruction, will lead to a rejuvenation of the imagination, the individual and the natural world. ... He quickly introduces the theme of death and compares the dead leaves to "ghosts" (3). ... The stanzas are made up of interlinking three-line units with the rhyme scheme ababcbcdc, continuing this to the end of the stanza: O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, (a) Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves ...
In the first stanza of the poem "In a Disused Graveyard", Frost establishes clear opposition: "The living come with grassy tread to read the gravestones on the hill; the grave yard draws the living still, but never anymore the dead". The irony that is in this stanza is the dead will never be back again. ... Frost continues with: "The ones who are living come today to read the stones and go away tomorrow dead will come to stay". ... Frosts comparison of ants and the government are that only the busy ants are interested in their own duty, also when the ants see one of their dead they just carr...
This rising tension is also developed through the sentence structure as the first two sentences are relatively short and they build tension by revealing a serious situation of a dead infant being found in the waters. ... "But I'm sure/As she stood in the shallows/ Ducking him tenderly/Till the frozen knobs of her wrists/Were dead as the gravel,/He was a minnow with hooks/Tearing her open" (6-12). ... However by using the word "tenderly" and by using metaphors to illustrate both the physical and emotional pain the mother experienced, "the frozen knobs of her wri...
"Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes"; "If you've got no passport you are officially dead, but we are still alive, my dear." The author uses antonyms such as "dead and alive", "mansions and holes" to show the difference between the two worlds. ... "Dead and Alive" are very strong words that are used to describe the pain of the German Jews. The word "dead" is a very dark and negative expression that emphasizes their miserable life and the amount of darkness surrounding the Jews. ...
Garden Of Love is one of William Blake's poems from his "Songs of Experience and Innocence" era. I think the content of the poem has both innocence and experience portrayed throughout it. This piece consists of three stanzas and all have their own focal point and meaning, yet are tied in to give a...
In my view, the poem works out Hughes's apprehension, his feeling that his ability to understand the emotions that generated this form of artistic expression was not on a par with the expression itself This is indicated by the last line of the poem, where the speaker notes that the piano player "slept like a rock or a man that's dead." ... From "Dead Rocks and Sleeping Men: Aurality in the Aesthetic of Langston Hughes," in The Langston Hughes Review....
The woman in the poem is debating about attending Sunday morning church, and Stevens explains that Jesus is dead; therefore there is no point in attending. Stevens does not believe in the resurrection, he believes Jesus is dead - he is putting a stop to any religious beliefs. ...
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...
