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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
The narrator then falls asleep on his book and experiences so strange and wonderful a dream that, he says, no one on earth can properly interpret it. ... 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. ... When Morpheus is described in his dark cave, he has "good leyser for to route" (line 172; "plenty of time to snore"), so he sleeps all day and does no other work. ... He marvels at the clarity an...
As the play unfolds, a Good Angle and an Evil Angel come to Faustus after his thoughts about necromancy. The two angels represent his choice between Christian good conscience and the path to eternal damnation (Marlowe 8). ... The author subsequently presents him to have abnormal powers to explore the earth and heavens from a chariot drawn by dragons, and he is seen flying to Rome, where there is a celebration to honor St. ... Instead, he depicted Satan as possessing many qualities which are good, noble, and exclusively admirable. ... Satan in this case was to be seen as having good traits a...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. 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. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...
