The poet compares himself to the yews and so to the death, I think because these animals live underground, and as human being they born and die; moreover he envies "the sullen tree" and "for thy stubborn hardihood" because the tree does not die and in my opinion he imagines to free himself from hishuman nature, represented by the blood, and therefore incorporating himself into nature. ...
The poem shows the uniqueness of life and the power that is possess, "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees". ... Personally I think this is an entirely unfair statement, that doesn't give Thomas's work any justice at all. ...
He just saw nature through a young child's eyes; he saw a tree in which to climb, grass in which was simply to frolic in. ... He had a place positioned under a tree where he would come to repeatedly to sit and reflect on his life. ... This in a way gives the reader the sense of being upon the hill with the whirling winds and the distant roar of the ocean along with the Wye River. "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees With some uncertain notice, as might seem of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods, Or of some Hermits cave, where by his fire the Hermit sits alone." ...
Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! ... In the past, perhaps, Waves rose to greet you, or out an open window, As you passed, a violin was giving itself To someone. ... (The Seventh Elegy, p 207) and in the fig tree that, without fanfare, forces its "concentrated essence / into the season's first fruit." ... Instead of offering a way to connect with this fountain, or this fig tree, as Whitman would, Rilke mentions, "we linger, / alas, we boast about our blooming; already betrayed, / we reach the core of our fruit too late." ...
The narrator now reflects how helpful it would be to have the god of sleep come and give him much-needed rest himself. ... He would give this gift to obtain the swift and deep sleep that Alcyone did when Juno answered her prayer. ... Alcyone asks Juno to give her news of her lost husband, and in return Alcyone will give to Juno "sacrifise/And hooly youres become I shal/With good wille, body, herte, and al:" (lines 114-116) "in short, to become the goddess's acolyte. ... A young dog, obviously at a loss when the deer give the hunting company the slip, approaches the narrator. ... The ...
The spiritual correspondence between man and nature can be illustrated as being a "spiritual communication" between the two, which is the affect of how they interact with each other. The use of nature in a way that is both beneficial to man and nature can be described as a harmonious spiritual correspondence. The poems I have analysed, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", "An Advancement of Learning" and "Roe-Deer", have their focal point revolving around encounters between man and nature. Each poem is unique to one another due to these differences; the time they were written, their themes, the rep...
Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure...
