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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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...

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In the section where the child asks the speaker what grass is, he proceeds to explain his symbolism of the grass that utilizes themes of nature (nature's cycles of rebirth and regeneration), a theme of unity and the democracy that runs the country (grass grows everywhere and links everyone's yards together as a whole), and a symbol of death or mortality (grass grows from the ground fertilized by the dead soldiers of the Civil War). ... "Drum Taps", another poem collection written from Whitman's reaction to the Civil War, speaks about the futility and ignorance of men pitting th...

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The next lines portray an image of repetitiveness and uselessness: Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats" feet over broken glass In our dry cellar The consecutive use of the word "dry" conveys a feeling of deadness. ... Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom Let me go nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear deliberate disguises Once the poet has experienced dream's kingdom the desire to live in Paradise is much stronger than his desire to remain a member of a "dead lan...

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To number the bloody stabs that were there, to look at and judge the dead" (802). ... She can feel the pain and loss he must have felt, having to stand by the grave of his dead love. ... "Where are the people, O Lord...And the dead whom once I knew?" ...

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John Betjeman's " On a Portrait of a Deaf Man" portrays a beloved father through an elegy constructed of disquieting contrasts, creating a poignant but incongruous tribute to a dead, deaf father. ... The pun in title on the word 'deaf', though truthful, plays on the word 'dead' and introduces the comic irony present through out the poem. ...

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Question: Discuss two poets" treatment of similar and different theme(s) in the poems you have studied in the course. "Because I Could Not Stopped for Death" by Emily Dickinson and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost are the poems that I have chosen for this assignment. This es...

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" Broken/beaten, desolate, reaching from the dead to be taken up/they cry out, failing, failing! ... Broken,/beaten, desolate, reaching from the dead to be taken up/they cry out, failing failing! ...

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Owen's depiction of war is always negative, and the impact of his poetry is reduced by that persistent criticism. To what extent do you agree? Owen was one of the greatest war poets are world has ever seen. His poems always speak of the brutality of war. Although Owen's depiction of war is a...

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Donne writes, "When by thy scorn, O murderess, I am dead, and that thou thinkst thee free." ... For example, Donne uses imagery in "The Apparition" when he writes "Then thy sick taper will being to wink," meaning that when I am dead and I come back as a ghost, I am going to flicker the candle light so that you will know that it is me. ... Donne states, "When by thy scorn, O murderess, I am dead, and that though thinkst thee free from all solicitation from me- Here, his message is that when he scared her, her conscious is going to come back to her and that's how she is going to be terr...

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"They whisper at their own distress", illustrates how after the death of someone, the people who reminisce on them characterize them as "poor souls," sympathizing their casualty and indirectly characterizing the dead. This idea of reminiscing the dead is something that experienced by everyone and Larkin puts into words his view of how pointless this action is as there is nothing beyond death. ...

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To him, his lover's dead body still looks very much alive. ... When he looks at her, he still perceives her to have rosy cheeks, which is the complete opposite of what a real dead body looks like. ...

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A poem written by the World War One poet, Wilfred Owen, is 'Exposure'. This poem is set out to show the reader what the conditions were really like during the First World War and to make it clear that the events that surrounded him, were not pleasant. In this essay, I am going to write about how Owe...

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Wilfred Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est about the first World War, in which he had personally fought. It was addressed to Jessie Pope, a writer of other poems concerning the War. Specifically he wrote the poem to counteract her poem "Who's For The Game?". Owen felt that Pope did not comprehend the s...

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Empathy is perhaps the most powerful tool of the poet. A poet can use empathy to build a bond between the reader and their work; but a quality poet can use empathy to tear that bond down as well. Throughout "A Prisoner in a Dungeon Deep," poet Anne Brontë effectively wields empathy, pity and estran...

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The Modernist era arrived in late nineteenth century Europe due to a general change in the attitude of the time. The effects of Industrialization on Europe's society, the development of scientific theories, such as Darwin's evolution theory', and the tension between the European nations that was to eventually escalate into World War One, called into question the existence of God and the rationality of Mankind. Modernism was a part of [this] disturbed, transformational period of European history [which] contained and incorporated its sensibility of transition and its rising ...

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CONSUMERISM Consumerism is the desire to acquire objects and possessions often beyond our essential needs, just for the sake of acquiring them. The general public feels shopping and consuming a necessity to life. With this in mind consumer companies use this weakness in order to manipulate and in...

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Compare the ways in which poets have used different forms to express a variety of ideas about love. These love poems were all written by men and women expressing a variety of their ideal towards love. The poems are "The beggar woman", "To his coy mistress", "My last duchess", "How do I love thee?...

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World war one began in 1914 and ended in 1918. During these four years there were enormous numbers of dead and wounded. Soldiers as young as 18 years old defending trench lines, which produced deadlock and nightmarish battles which ended in horrific consequences. As everyone was a volunteer in...

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"Slough" critical essay Some poems may be based on either an intense emotion or a forceful idea. Choose one such poem and, by close study of the poetic techniques used, show how effectively the poet has conveyed the idea or emotion. "Slough," written by John Betjeman, is a comic poem talkin...

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So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind. Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time. Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial. For what it's worth, it was worth all the while. I hope you had the time of your life. -Green Day: Good Riddance Youth is the embodiment of...

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Introduction " we were meant for - made for things that give and that mean to give glory to God." Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) Romantic poets see the implication of imagination, myth, symbol and organic nature, and see it as part of the great endeavour to overcome the split between sub...

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The poem "The Visitor," by Gibbons Ruark has a direct title which immediately introduces the concept of an outsider "The Visitor" who comes to the household for a specific time to undertake a specific duty. Though there is no specific rhyme scheme visible, the poem is written in such a manner that i...

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