The line is; Bent double, like old beggars under sacks which is already a rather miserable tone. ... He describes the soldiers" crooked stance and compares them to old beggars, uncomfortable and undesirable. ... The next metaphor featured occurs in the next line - As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. ... The man is giving up the fight, onomatopoeic of the desperate fight for air under a sea. ... Although in this case gas replaces sea, the concept is still basically the same - suffocation. ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

His last focus in his work was humanity in which he believed that as man moves further and further away from humanity he seems to be losing more and more of his soul, he was often forced to think about the people trapped in the cities, unable or unwilling to commute with nature. ... Both Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth conceived a new style of poetry in which nature and diction of the common man outplayed formal, stylized writing. ... In the second quarter of the poem William Wordsworth tells the reader that everything in nature, such as the wind and the sea is met up in a powerful spirit...

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"White Man- is a direct attack on the white man's violations against the African-Americans. ... "White Man! White Man! ... You are the smart guy, White Man! ... Its tone reeks of depression and self-pity, "On the shoals of Nowhere, Wasted my song Yet taken by the sea wind And blown along."" ...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There we are given one of the expressions used by Owen to compare the men like "old beggars under sacks". ... " Knock-kneed coughing like hags- Here we can visualise an image of a body bent double, wheezing and coughing like old witches, shattering the body in one blow! The young men are referred to as "hags", in other words old women compared as witches. The impact that Owen draws upon the reader is of young men who are no longer young but who look old and dying in amongst the crud. ... "In all my dreams ." whenever he tries to sleep he cannot fight that mans agonizing death. ...

• Word Count: 1476
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• Grade Level: High School

What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn? ... When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.' ... Keats then notes that the young man playing the pipe beneath trees must always remain an etched figure on the urn. ... In addition, the young man's love for the maiden will remain forever "warm and still to be enjoy'd F...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Drum Taps", another poem collection written from Whitman's reaction to the Civil War, speaks about the futility and ignorance of men pitting themselves against one another in the poem "Reconciliation" ("For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead"). ... In this collection it is apparent that Whitman's love for democracy was diminishing after seeing the destruction it could cause against fellow man, though at first it was for a cause that furthered unity and equality during his childhood. Another of his poem collections, "Sea Drift", Whitman swings to transcendentalism...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They would sigh and quote with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough. ... Yeats then queries the possibility of place among these young sensualists for a man, whose senses have already begun to fail. Yeats describes the old man's state more closely in the second stanza. ... And therefore I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium. ... Byzantium is for Yeats, the heaven of the man's mind. ...

• Word Count: 2111
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One man is not fortunate enough to get his on in time. The lines, "under a green sea, I saw him drowning" (14) and " . . . before my helpless sight"(15) tell the reader that despite the number of people that are there, there is nothing that can be done to save this man from dying. ... To the speaker of this poem his dreams are filled with the memories of this man chocking and gasping for air. ... He was young then but now considers himself old. ...

• Word Count: 1643
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School