Unbelievable to many is the cycle of ones life, as symbolized by Dickinson in three stages and then the final stage of eternity. ... In addition to these three stages, the final stage of eternity was symbolized in the last two lines of the poem "The Horses" Heads (23)," " Leading toward Eternity (24)." Dickinson dresses the scene in such that a mental picture sight, feeling and sound of once life. ... The final scene "We passed the Setting Sun (12)," proved emotional. One can picture a warm setting sun perhaps, over a grassy horizon. ...

• Word Count: 533
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• Grade Level: High School

The theme going in the first stanza is that Autumn is a season of fulfilling, yet the theme ending the final stanza is that Autumn is a season of dying. ... From a simple reading, the poem paints a beautiful picture of the coming season. ...

• Word Count: 529
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• Grade Level: High School

Birches Through symbolism and artistic design Robert Frost illustrates the circle of life, death and life again, a kind of reincarnation of the soul in his poem "Birches."" The poem begins with a description of a birch tree under various conditions, symbolic of the numerous hardships experienc...

• Word Count: 671
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• Grade Level: High School

The omnipotent view in this rhythmic poetry only enforces that the end of life's journey is at hand; with only a multiplicity of memories as a stencil of Harwood's own history, what she has become, that has shaped her development throughout life to produce the final product. ... By recapturing the past, Harwood paints a picture of herself in the present. ...

• Word Count: 904
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• Grade Level: High School

An allegory is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. ... In this respect, he is like all men, who would ask for time to make final plans. ...

• Word Count: 876
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• Grade Level: High School

It is pictured as man who gives the speaker the ride of eternity. ... At the culmination of the third stanza, the setting of the sun represents the transition of life's final stages to death. ... The final stanza of "Because I could not stop for Death" (1) the speaker states that although centuries have passed all the time "Feels shorter than the Day" (22). ...

• Word Count: 1192
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He opens the poem like a storyteller and "presents an idyllic picture of childhood on a farm, filled with vivid imagery which presents a child's view of the world" (Tremlett 150). ... However Thomas's views of childhood in the first stanzas are "contrasted in the final stanzas with the regret of the adult as he recalls the loss of the innocence and splendor of childhood" (Korg 93). ... Time is the enemy of everyone and the "final transition from the remembered glories of childhood to the reality of the adult world is irrevocable" (Korg 93). ... The final men that Thomas talks abou...

• Word Count: 1651
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A and B appear to represent a complete picture of man, A being slow and awkward whilst B being brisk and businesslike. ... Rockaby is the final stages of the journey to death and the repeated fragments become an "unsettling lullaby" (Piling, 1994) that draws the woman closer into her death. ... The words make death final and even provide a sense of anger that the playwright has not permitted his other characters to reveal. ...

• Word Count: 1769
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• Has Bibliography

I always wonder if we finally reached the final stage of improvement in our history. ... We were never able to see the whole picture, the large piece of the meaning of life, which would explain it all. ...

• Word Count: 1208
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• Grade Level: High School

In the third act, when we finally get a clear picture of death, the reader sees that the people who are dead are regretful that their mundane lives were incomplete, not realizing the importance of life until they are dead. ... The regretful dead of Grover's Corners express their sorrow in the final act and reflect on the importance of life and taking advantage of what the world has to offer. ...

• Word Count: 1142
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• Grade Level: High School

In this chapter a picture of the town is painted by the narrator in which images pop up of run down buildings withered by the harsh winters of Starkfield. ... These final chapters reiterate the soul of Ethan, who is an honest and good man. ...

• Word Count: 1383
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• Grade Level: High School

I remember going through the whole process of having a picture of him in our family den and always talking to him as if he was there. ... He had to watch himself pass away through the final days of his time with his family. ...

• Word Count: 1143
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The Plague of Existence The Plague by Camus is an interesting piece of work. It takes a deep look into the different reactions people have to hardships. This is profoundly important because the existentialist view presents the world as a tremendous difficulty that we all must somehow learn to ov...

• Word Count: 2446
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• Grade Level: High School

"To Examine" or "Not to Examine"? That Is the Question The stories of Socrates and Ivan Ilych disclose two different attitudes towards the examined life, as well as two distinct ways of death. Socrates represents the notion that the "unexamined life is not worth living", thus, ...

• Word Count: 1628
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Jews say that man and women are equal as the story of Adam and Eve shows that 'God took Eve from Adams side' and they are both needed for the fuller picture of Gods image. ... Eschatology is the part of theology concerned with the final events of history or the ultimate destiny of humanity. ...

• Word Count: 1698
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• Grade Level: High School

For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

• Word Count: 5369
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• Grade Level: High School

"A Little Cloud" connotatively expresses in itself an effeminacy and fragility that little Chandler's personality holds. The precision and care of his appearance is a reaction to needing to be in social order. This makes up for his ineffectuality by customizing what he can control. The common practi...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate