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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. ... That good and evil can reside side by side in a person and that a person may even have some control over how evil festers and grows. ... Evil, good and salvation is shared between both of these poems. ... Water seems to symbolize that no matter how much evil exists salvation is possible because where there is evil th...

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Keats leaves the reader with "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know (49-50). ... Christ is the very incarnation of the good, the true and the beautiful. ... It is one with the good and the beautiful."" ...

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Kennedyvsaid: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." ... In the Article "Literary Periods, Movements and History" about The Beat Generation, a good description of this struggle is found: "people began to question the rampant materialism of their society[] they saw runaway capitalism as destructive to the human spirit, and a dissatisfaction with consumer culture.... The last line (and also title) sounds like "Big Brother", an authority first...

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His other great poem "Works and Days" describes the life of Greek peasants, emphasizing on their hard work, Good judgment and thriftiness. ... Hesiod, who was a farmer, also praised the farmer's for enduring in a long silent struggle with the earth and its elements. ...

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The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed feverourless as I. ?... So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware. ...

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After reading this poem, one must ask- was so much of his time spent creating this fictional urn, only to inform society of his final analogy of his time on earth? ... In conclusion, quests contain many themes, including friendship, acceptance of difference, illusions and reality, good versus evil and the satisfaction of accomplishment. ...

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It's a heartbreaking and poignant poem and the idea that even though we share this earth, we are essentially alone here, is also communicated in the closing lines. ... Each farmer only looks after what is on his side of the wall and the old neighbour tells the poet that "good fences make good neighbours". ... He challenges his neighbour, saying "why do they make good neighbours?...

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This essay will discuss and explain certain techniques Ted Hughes uses, such as personification, in his poem `Hawk Roosting`. To add to this, it will also discuss and try to elaborate upon how this poem is structured and how the way that it is written contributes towards the effect of the poem upon ...

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"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders." – Maya Angelou. Now imagine a scenario where one man is isolated from the rest of society, having to accomplish all his daily tasks by himse...

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On earth all he sees is the harsh reality of existence, and the only hope is the promise of an afterlife. ... When the season of darkness ends, the world comes alive with "the coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, / The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves." (49-50) He knows that although it is very difficult to believe that good exists in such a harsh world, beauty will inevitably resurface. ...

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Maybe it was his rural, down to earth, background that caused Frost to feel the demands and challenges of strict, traditional form. ... A good example of a resolved poem by Frost is The Road Not Taken. ... Opposing to the remark made by Frost's good friend, Thomas, which stated "Frost carried himself and his ironies too subtly," (Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite) so that the poem is, in effect, a failure, Kearns replies with, "If the Poem is indeed informed by such love, it becomes the most consummate irony of all, as it shows, despite one level of Frost's intentions...

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