In Genesis the way God creates the Heavens and the Earth, differs from the way any other piece of literature. ... For example, "And the sun was on his right hand, and the moon was on his left , the stars were clustered about his hand" or "and God said: That's good." ... "And the Earth was under his feet, and God walked, and where he trod his footsteps hollowed the valleys out and bulged the mountains up." ...

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It talks about man's use of the earth for its needs and man's abuse of the earth in this selfish process. ... A sort of bad news then good news situation if you will. ... This is a metaphor for God's greatness as the speaker is likening it to lightning that charges the earth. God's bright light will cover the earth and man will be able to see the wonder of creation. ... It is not enough that man is consuming all the good pasture but they are laying it to waste and leaving it barren. ...

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Trees were burned to help the rise of men, who had total disregard for their earth and led their lands with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of industry. ... The world may never truly know, but I believe that he did not, and that every time man destroys another piece of earth, we are destroying our own fate and innocence. ... One day perhaps the stars will "throw down their spears, and water heaven with their tears," and the filth and coldness of industry will be washed away, leaving only peace, quiet, and good earth. All is in the hands of the inhabitants of the earth today. ...

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Although the central issue as adulthood versus childhood has good validity, the central issue is in fact the speaker's struggle between reality and imagination. ... As the poem continues the obvious metaphor is the birches are a ladder between heaven and earth. Near the end of the poem the speaker admits too wanting to get away from earth for a while, but then later wishing to return to life where he left off. The speaker discusses going to heaven by climbing a birch tree to the very top until he could go no further, and then gently being placed back down on earth by the tree. ... Thi...

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It is interesting how poets from different writing periods can have similar views. Walt Whitman was a Transcendentalist, and Rainer Rilke wrote at the beginning of the Modernist period, yet both have very similar ideas about a poet's dedication to "things." Whitman believed that a poet's thoughts ...

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The "trepidation of spheres " and "Moving of the earth" show that Donne believes this love has great force. In the context of John Donne's time the spheres around the earth were the largest structures imaginable. ... Buy defining what is evil a person also defines what is good that is what is not evil. ...

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When he dies, the soldier will go to a heaven that's just like the England he left behind on Earth. ... When he dies, he returns to the earth (as dust). ... Line 4: The speaker imagines himself as a part of nature, a pile of "dust concealed" in the earth. ... His heaven apparently will be chock full of memories of England-her "sights and sounds," and a whole lot of other good stuff. ... Well, just like the good sonnet that it is, "The Soldier" is written in a metrical form called iambic pentameter. ...

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The clothes from Pakistan have exotic names and bright colours, which are attractive, but the fact that the glass bangles can break and cut the wearer reminds us that they can do damage as well as good. ... The lesson that the storm has taught her is that "the earth is the earth is the earth": wherever one is in the world one is on the same planet, its similarities being more important than its differences; the gods of Africa and the Caribbean have found her in the far away country to which she has come. ...

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that hath been Cool"d for a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! ... I believe that the speaker is calling for the death of the socially constricted self in order for him to dissolve into nature and become a "sod" of earth capable of savouring the nightingale's song forever. ... I feel this gives the impression of nature as a healer, it offers hope and all good comes alive in its presence. This ties in with what the speaker says about nature not having "slight or trivial influence" on the good q...

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One must keep in mind that Blake placed this poem among his "Songs of Experience" for it is a realization through the experience of man that, much like the saying "a doctor can not exist without disease"*, evil must be present in our world for there to be good as the first stanza illustrates. ... "The Gods of the earth and sea, Sought thro' Nature to find this Tree But their search was all in vain: There grows one in the Human Brain" The final stanza bears the "catch of the poem". ... The tree in question is, in my opinion, the tree of good and evil, which symbolizes ...

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All of the good times and bad times are remembered as she heads toward eternal life. ... Death is a sad thing, but she has lived a good life and she will live an eternal life and it is now her time to go. ... No one on this earth should think that they are any better than anyone else. ... This poem is good because it deals with death and it makes it seem like it is a part of nature instead of a horrible thing. ...

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In part two of the poem, the speaker tells his mistress that the time they have on earth is finite. ... He makes a good use of his words to praise her "long preserved virginity,"" (29) and to proclaim his love for her. ...

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Confucius being the founder of Confucian was deeply concerned about human flourishing and living a good or virtuous life, he urged the necessity of humanity to cultivate the self so that as a result society could flourish. ... One of his popular poems: Song of Poverty quite clearly describes the state of an unfortunate who survives on a lump of salt wile having his parents, wife and children all huddled around him in grief and tears, in the poem he beautifully says: Wide as they call the heaven and earth, For me they have shrunk quite small; Bright though they call the sun and moon, they nev...

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The corpses of these rebels were buried bare into the earth; with nothing on them apart from their clothes and pocketfuls of barley- what they ate to sustain life for the day of the rebellion. ... The Bog Queen rises in ugliness, having suffered so much that she can never be beautiful again, just as Ireland has been cut off from its own good. ... The author voices his perception of the good and the evil through the corpse of a figure in history. ... In Digging, Heaney also talks about the hard-working farmer as he slices down the earthfor the good turf?. ... He works for what he earns, and by ...

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I think this poem is very patriotic and though many consider it too romantic compared to the gruesome works of some World War 1 poets such as Wilfred Owen, it gives a very good image of young men's attitudes when entering the world before they had been hardened by the experience of war. ... "If anything will rouse him now, The kind old sun will know," The second stanza goes much deeper into the Generals emotions he is saying why did the sun break the earth to create us, if we are going to slaughter each other. ... -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep...

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When feeling scared of death just listen to nature whom, with it's soothing sounds, will calm your heart until that day in which nature "claim(s) they growth" and are "resolved back to the earth again" in which you "mix forever with the elements" and become part of nature yourself. ... Bryant refers to death as a "pleasant dreams" the very same way in which Thomas's poem refers to it as a "good night." ... All three writings make death seem like something pleasant by linking them to dreams and good nights. ... In these 3 poems, whether directly or indirectly, death is referred to as ...

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Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time. ... -Green Day: Good Riddance Youth is the embodiment of imagination, trust, curiosity and every trait a newborn child possesses. ... They have a wisdom that adults are incapable of because adults are corrupted with knowledge which effects their decisions, sometimes in a good way but sometimes not. ... There is a lot of personification in this poem as with "To Youth" with mentions of the moon, rainbows and earth. ... The theme of this poem links very well with all the other poems because it explains how no matter how good adulthood is, ther...

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Book of Job vs Aristotle's Poetics Aristotle was, arguably, the greatest single thinker that has ever walked the earth. ... This idea, established in section II of Poetics, calls for the "good" characters to be overly good and "bad" characters exceedingly bad. ... The factions of absolute good and unqualified evil square off in this early drama. Aristotle was extremely adamant that the "change of fortune" must be from good to bad. ... His plight is caused by the struggle of consummate good and evil as personified by God and Satan. ...

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The hate is well conveyed in this very severe word and is very effective as it lets one understand that there is nothing to like in Slough and that it is good for it to be destroyed. ... "Friendly bomb" suggests they are welcome and a good thing to benefit the town. ... This helps to convey the very strong emotions, Betjeman is saying that it is a right and good thing for the town to be destroyed, they way this phrase is repeated twice makes it even more powerful. ... A plough needs to get through the soil or concrete to reach fresh earth because of all the rubbish in the way. ... It show...

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It could be understood either as the speaker traveling alone on his road of life, experiencing good or bad time and having nobody to share it with. ... With the next line we are getting down from the sky to earth, as if the cloud enchanted by the view of the cumulus of flowers decided to examine them from close distance. ...

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"This is perhaps Emily Dickinson's best-known poem. She personifies the character of death and then dramatizes the experience: Death is portrayed as a genteel friend who "kindly" stops to take to her grave." Style : - 6 stanzas, 4-lines each - Traditional meter, often found in hymns and n...

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A quote that demonstrates this concept well can be found when Whitman states: "For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you./ I loafe and invite my soul,/ I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.... An example that demonstrates both repetition and odd sentence structure can be found in section forty-three in which Whitman writes: Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,/ Nor him in the poor house tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,/ Nor the numberless slaughter'd and wreck'd, nor the brutish Â...

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In the poem "Mending Wall" the direct comparison is that the speaker Frost is once again using satire and ironary "Good fences make good neighbors", his neighbor from the poem says. ... In "Provide Provide" Frost writes "The picture pride of Hollywood too many fall from great and good". ... He is clearly making a joke of the materialistic world and believed in down to earth simple things. ...

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Science brought new inventions and these inventions, while doing good to humans, but also, were making them more mechanized. ... Another issue in order to describe the poet's vision of nature is a comparison between some Wordsworth's verses in "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" and it consists in the two personifications of nature. . kind-hearted, benevolent woman who serves the good of mankind and the world. ...

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The neighbor resorts to an old proverb: "Good fences make good neighbors." ... Yet the very earth conspires against them and makes their task Sisyphean. ... And it demonstrates another benefit of community; for this communal act, this civic "game," offers a good excuse for the speaker to interact with his neighbor. ... Perhaps the speaker does believe that good fences make good neighbors-- for again, it is he who initiates the wall-mending. ...

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