The poems "The World is Too Much with Us" by William Wordsworth, "The Widow's Lament in Springtime" by William Carlos Williams, and "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" by Emily Dickinson, discuss this theme using different types of imagery, metaphors, contrasts and comparisons. ... Wordsworth depicts the beautiful image of a mother breastfeeding her child or an erotic picture of a man and a woman through the relationship between the sea and the moon at night: "The sea that bares her bosom to the moon." ... We forgot the fact that man was created from earth and that once we were living in equi...

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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. ... This situation is linked to the earlier use of the word floundering, and carries on the sea theme in a more definite way. The man is giving up the fight, onomatopoeic of the desperate fight for air under a sea. ... The next stanza is mostly on the same theme. ...

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This famous, and lengthy, poem has several sections which all house different themes. ... Another of his poem collections, "Sea Drift", Whitman swings to transcendentalism the poems often-contained universal themes of separation and love. ... An appreciation for the opera contributed to Whitman's poetry not only in theme but also in rhythm. Critics and poets called it "thought-rhythm" and it was popular in Old Testament poetry. ... And you, sweet singers of old lands-Sopani! ...

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Courtly love is a common theme in many medieval writings. ... The suffering people are referred to as "sailors" and "the sea shall free them". ... Suzanne is dressed in old rags. ... The main theme in the poem "Suzanne Takes You Down" is the theme of courtly love. ... First of all, the man is usually drawn to the woman's appearance. ...

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He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetry. ... But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but faith" and he writes that it is just for knowledge and trust that we believe in things we see "it comes from thee", moreover in line 22 when man has no fear, "we mock thee". Surely, the theme of the poem, Arthur Henry Hallam's death provided him the excuse to question his faith in God and as well as in the rest of the p...

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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. ... One primary theme that William Wordsworth focused on in his poetry is nature as it could be represented in the poem "The World is too much with us"...

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Much like the structure of his works, Bryant's language is reminiscent of an older English vernacular. ... The use of old English words such as thy, hath, though and didst give Bryant's poems a less modern feel that resembles classic English poetry. ... The theme that Bryant returns to many times in his work is of a transcendentalist nature. ... "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" is a prime example of this; Whitman uses the premise of taking a walk along the ocean shore as a time to reflect upon his life and his poetry, wondering whether or not both are doing what he ...

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In the first stanza, Owen opens up by giving phrases such as "like old beggars under sacks", "men marched asleep", and "drunk with fatigue", which strongly provides the readers with vivid pictures of soldiers pushing forward in slow and controlled pace despite of deplorable conditions they are in. ... "As under a green sea I saw him drowning. ... In the end of the four lines, usage of the words such as "with such high zest" implies that "once the sentiment of dulce et decorum was once held by either the speaker or the dead man who he now sees on the wagon." ... At last, Owen's "Dulce...

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This line needs to be remembered as the poem is based on the idea of it as 'the old lie' mocking the established belief of nationalism and duty to your country. ... The line is sarcastic as Owen has now himself seen a gas attack and a man drown 'under a green sea', and has found out that dying out there in a far off land was a waste of a life and is completely pointless. ... In contrast, Owen uses the rigid structure of a sonnet (two quatrains and a sextet) to contrast with the theme of death and loss. ... It uses similes such as 'like old beggars under sacks' an...

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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! ... The universal theme of racism and race relations defined all the important work of Langston Hughes....

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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. ... Owen's main and central themes throughout these war poems is that there is more to war then the honour and glory of fighting for your c...

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In the poems; 'Here', 'Essential Beauty' and 'Faith healing' Larkin explores the universal theme of desire. ... The alliteration used in 'thin and thistled' and 'night north' uses harsh consonant sounds which make the man - controlled landscape sound inferior to the countryside which is natural. ... There is also a powerful image of the land 'ending' and 'distance' over the sea. ... Larkin describes 'the boy', 'a pensioner', 'dying smokers' and 'going dark' to describe a progression ...

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The composer's use of similes illustrates to us the unimaginable, horrific scenes of war in a way we might be able to fathom "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks". ... For example, it is displayed when Owen says, "Under a green sea, I saw him drowning" and "Blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs". ... Owen refers to the Latin phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" meaning it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country, as "the old lie" suggesting that Horace, the man who composed the saying over 2000 years a...

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"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. ... "And floundering like a man in fire or lime" This line is saying the soldier was panicking too much that he was making mistakes and because of these mistakes the soldier doesn't get his helmet on in time and now he is surrounded by green gas. The last two lines of this stanza describes the soldier dying, "Dim through the misty panes and thick green l...

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The king goes across the sea on a ship, and a storm arises and drowns all aboard. ... Morpheus is to go to the Great Sea (the Mediterranean) and enliven the king's drowned body with his own spirit. ... In her dream, Alcyone sees Seys at the foot of her bed, and he tells her that he has died and that she must find his body by the sea and bury it. ... The knight then begins a tirade against  Fortune, who turns her wheel at a whim, making him, a man she has favored before, into a miserable wretch. ... Socrates taught that the philosophical man should be above the vagaries of Fortune. ...

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The Gladstone Parliament of 1880–85 was the 'no-man's land' between the old Radicalism and the new Socialism. ... It was largely a poetry of urban themes; the Romantic dependence on nature had already declined. ... His poems are largely traditional in theme, form, and structure, and show a continuity with the Wordsworthian art of recording the impact of ordinary daily events on an individual and sensitive mind. ...

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