... fatalism, doom, and mutability. In the first stanza, he describes the scenery and weather during the end of May. When Housman states, "The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers/Stream from the hawthorn on the wind way," the chestnut having cast his flambeaux suggests flaming torches and the flowers losing its natural home in the hawthorn, and flies following the direction of the wind like a school of fish, ... fortune in the upcoming year, but is doubtful of the future when he turns the age of twenty-four-that's when mutablity is quite possible. The third stanza, first verse al...

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The tempest in Act III influences the character King Lear significantly. The storm is an echo of Lear's inner turmoil and his growing insanity: the awesome power of the storm is a physical, chaotic natural reflection of Lear's internal confusion. Although Lear does not recover his good sense, and learn from his mistakes to become a better king, he begins to learn his weakness and insignificance compared to the remarkable ... an end because his daughters have betrayed him. Also by having his power stripped from him by his daughters, he thinks that the outside world is going to end as well. The...

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... lie ahead. In the third part of the poem Shelly uses the ocean and the vegetation that grows at the bottom of it to show how the wind affects everything. The ocean and its foliage are used to in the same manner as the leaves and the clouds to show the uncontrollable force of the wind. The waves of the ocean and the "oozy woods" show the presence and affect of the wind. In the forth part of ... the poem Shelley ties all of the images together showing his desire to be the autumn leaves, tempest clouds, and turbulent ... waves so that he to can be effected by the wind and nature the way th...

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