In the poem "i thank You God for most this amazing,"" E. ... As the creator of all things natural, God is responsible for the "leaping greenly spirits of trees- and the "blue true dream of sky- that fascinate and enthrall the speaker.These phrases, found in the first stanza of the poem, show how Cummings uses diction, color symbolism, and imagery to relate to the idea of rebirth.The spirit of a group is the essential nature of that group, the basic feelings and ideas that it holds.Trees are one of the most basic symbols representing nature.Therefore, by thanking God for the "leaping greenly s...

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In the next stanza, she displays her respect of God and the poetry that God inspires, writing, "And oh ye high flown quills that soar the skies/And ever with your prey still catch your praise."" These lines present the idea that poetry is not only "God-given, " but that it should be a way to praise him as well. But even when reaching out to God, she does ask for one minor thing: "Yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours. ... Here she is not referencing or drawing praise from God, but from critics and other "equals"," who judge her as a woman (her physical body, not her soul). ... She wrote...

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All of this is done, while the speaker remarks that "God has not said a word", meaning God has not yet punished him. ... In "My Last Duchess", the woman is killed for not caring about the finer things in life and just enjoying all the small, natural aspects; while in "Porphyria's Lover", the woman is killed for wanting the finer things that her lover can't provide for her. ...

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The "design of darkness" could only exist if "design governs in a thing so small."(Line 14) Since God is said to be governance of all things great and small, the possibility that design doesn't govern in miniscule matter immediately raises the issues that maybe there is no God to order the will of nature at all. ... From the views Frost depicts in this poem it would be fair to extrapolate that he believes the world will end in violent war for coveted things. ... The word "Something" means that Frost finds some uncertain things and he realizes it is the truth; however, he knows nothing abo...

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Each of the people has their own secret lives, thoughts, and meanings, as people from any other small town in America do. ... The first two "morsels" are of two that differentiate two peoples opinion on free will and whether it exists on God's green Earth. ... In this case, Masters shows that as things get older they begin to lose their function. ... It may have been a simple wish but it is one that God would not grant for him. ... He feels God provided him with the most important thing in life, successful children. ...

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- -and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. The poet expresses her love from materialistic to abstract things. From the day to day small needs her loves transcends time, and place. ...

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In what way in Tennyson's imagery of nature in "In Memoriam" distinctive from the Romantic Presentation of Nature as God-Nature? ... The poem consists of many smaller poems, written in iambic tetrameter with an ABBA rhyme scheme. ... In the first four lines of the preface, there are three characters: the Son of God, Love and human being. The poet refers to God like full of immortal love and "we", human being, have faith, although we have not proofs of the existence of God. But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but fa...

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On first reading it is easy to assume that the "tyger' is evil but upon further exploration the reader might wonder if the "tyger" can be both good and evil considering that Blake states that the "tyger" was created by God - which in Protestant theology is a good god. Blake tells his readers that God did create the "tyger" in line 19: "Did He smile His work so see?" ... The tale of the witches and the horses tail seems humorous to me but it was difficult for me to determine whether or not Burns was telling a supernatural tale because he himself believed in such things or because he wa...

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He had finally realized that one could only find God in his purest form in his own most perfect creation "Nature". Harold Bloom states "The visible body of Nature is more then a outer testimony of the Spirit of God to him; it is our only way to God" (Modern p.4). ... Wordsworth realized that his fellow man has strayed from God by getting caught up in all the material things in which our society provides us and this deeply saddened him. ... He realizes that what was once thought his playground is actually the playground of God. ... In the second paragraph along with the predominant "s" sound ...

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We will discuss the general form of your essay and how to develop your argument through the use of an introduction, body, and conclusion; we will go over some of the basic aspects of citation and documentation of sources; and we will address some smaller details of presentation as well. ... There are two important things to note here. ... For instance, you might mention that in Paradise Lost Milton invokes the Muse to help him "assert Eternal Providence, / And justify the ways of God to men" (25-26). ... The entire point of this system is to make things easier on the writer and the reader, so ...

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From his neat head unquestionably rises a small balloon "but for the grace of God- They stand a while in flicking light, rehearsing the children's name and birthdays. ... "But for the grace of God" being the man's "shocked" thoughts, metaphorically rising out of his head like a "balloon" - as he is surprised to see this woman in such a terrible state. ... The person then begins to remember things from her childhood, these being triggered by what she sees, "The melting west," the sunset, and the rest of the po! ...

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There are things that happen in our life that we often have difficulty accepting and everyone has a different way of doing this. ... In the second section we are told a small amount of the life that the soldier lived before he enlisted. ... He is unsure as to why he signed up but he is recalling that "someone said he'd look like a god in kilts" (25). ... The poem closes with the implication that the soldier's life will be continued in a hospital where he will be dependent on others for all of his needs, where he does "what things the rules consider wise" (41). ... Seeing a fel...

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England can't really do these things, so this is a case of personification (the attribution of human qualities to non-human things). ... The "eternal mind" refers to God's mind (eternal here means that it has never been created and will never die). God, of course, lives in heaven (just in case you were wondering), which is described as being just like England. ... And that means a few things as far as form and meter are concerned. ... Small substitutions like this are fairly common in poetry, so just be on the lookout for any metrical oddities. ...

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What is more, on Blake's original plate for "Infant Joy", there are two flowers; the smaller one is closed and wilted, while the larger one is blooming, with a baby, a mother or a nurse, and an angel watching over them. ... The angel in the illustrations symbolizes blessings from heaven and protection from God. ... When Tom Dacre had his head shaved, he told him to look on the bright side of things. ... The rest of the poem is the little boy's response – they are in "praising God & his Priest & King" (Line 11) in church. ...

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The works of American poet Robert Frost tell of simple things- swinging on a birch tree, stopping by woods on a snowy evening, and the death of a hired man. Behind his work is a deep feeling for life's fundamentals-love, loyalty, and awareness of nature and of God. ... In 1900, his grandfather gave him a small farm near Derry, NH. ... Robert Frost's poetry touched our nation, here are some things people said about him: Robert Frost was a philosophical poet, which meant in his case that to a profound and delicate heart was joined an intellect which never ceased to search for the ul...

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Many of the writers from the late 1600s were writing theoretical works about divine will, the universal order of life, and God's justness. ... In stanza one, she writes: "To sing of wars, of captains, and of kings, Of cities founded, commonwealths begun, For my mean pen are too superior things: Or how they all, or each their dates have run Let poets and historians set these forth, My obscure lines shall not so dim their worth- (Bradstreet 247, ln 1-6). ...

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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. ...

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Allen Ginsberg's Motivation for writing Howl Richard Eberhart, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet of 1966, remarks, "Ginsberg's Howl ushered in a new generation." Many 20th century poets have attested to the freeing effect that Ginsberg's poetry had upon them in the late fifties. But to allege th...

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