The poet also brings up traps and deception in the fifth stanza when inflexible "bureaucrats" bully and nag him for things which only interest the bureaucrat. ... An example that the poet gives of disdainful people and people not being treated as equals is in the fifth stanza. ... This idea is contrasted later in the fifth stanza where there is a reversal of roles and instead of people who are above him looking down on him, there are the people under him who look down on him. ... One thing which the unborn child has great fears of is routine. ... Sinning is another fear that the unborn child h...

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The first collection shows the innocent child`s outlook on the world, whereas the latter depicts the view of the experienced adult. ... So the reference to Milton`s Paradise Lost that opens the fifth stanza emphasis on the devil`s nature of humans. ... The child`s understanding of the significance of the lamb makes the poem sound certain and mature. ... Thus the simple child`s question turns into a question about the existence of man. ... Another proof of this belief is that both the child and "the lamb" are associated with the Jesus. ...

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The Whore and The Child I have chosen to analyze two poems by Rita Dove. ... In both these poems we have a mother or a mother figure trying to reach out to a daughter and to a child. ... Then I leaned back to peruse My blighted child, this wary aristocratic mole."" ... So she is saying that her child has failed in her mother's hopes and ambitions for her. ... In the fifth stanza we come to where the mother speaks quite plainly about what her daughter has become. ...

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Blake follows this tradition when using the voice of Tom Dacre in the first poem, a child forced into labor. Tom, an innocent child, shares his dreams of angels and the salvation of the sweeps: "And by came an angel who had a bright key, And he open'd the coffins & set them all free;" This sort of social consciousness in literature, stimulated by the French Revolution, also allows Blake to show in the second poem, through an experienced narrator, the true plight of child laborers: "Crying'weep! ... In the first poem, the child dreams of salvation; a child's nave hope of some...

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As for the action, the only on-stage one is confined to the silent narration, for the narrating urn is mute and silent, and from here springs the first paradox of the scene-stanza 1 the moment the curtain opens: Thou still unravish"d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme The setting, as the trend is in every scene-stanza of the play poem, comes divided into an external setting_ where the metanarrator observes the narrator in bewildered admiration, thus shedding light on the ...

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Once Randall introduces the poem in the first four stanzas by establishing characters and the setting, there is a shift in the fifth stanza from the characters speaking to a narrator. ... The fact that the young girl is a child is reiterated again when the word "small" is used to describe her. ... The color white is contrasted sharply with her "night-dark hair" and her "brown hands" In the poem, these direct references to the color of her hair and skin are present even though she is an innocent child. ...

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The effect of using a simple language and a simple form is a clever way of emphasizing that the story is told from a child's point of view, yet with the depth of an underlying message. ... Because of this, the speaker maintains the full sense of being an innocent child. The speaker in poem 2 is still a child and shows some innocence, although he presumably is somewhat older and more experienced. ... In a nave sense, this is a beautiful and simple way of calming a child - something only another child could think of. ... From poem 1, the fourth stanza and the first two lines of the fifth s...

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Ode to a Grecian Urn THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? ... He also calls it a "foster-child of silence and time" because it is has been adopted by silence and time, parents who have conferred on the urn eternal stillness. ... Finally in the fifth stanza Keats begins by addressing the urn as an "attic shape....

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In the fifth stanza, the poem shifts into trochaic meter, as the speaker is reflective in the emotions behind encountering "Nature's People" (17), saying he feels for them "a transport of Cordiality.... As the poem evolves, so does the persona's understanding of the snake's beauty, strangely reflective of how non-threatening the snake seemed to him as a child. ...

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Another reference to the virginity of the girl child in the poem - "green" as in not ripe, not mature, not ready young girl and "girlwood" instead of piece of wood being split open - the girl's young body was split open like a piece of wood. ... The last line of the fourth stanza, which continues into the fifth stanza, ends here mid point. ...

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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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