With only one side showing commitment, it will not last. ... Death Cab for Cutie shares their view on the fear of commitment in a relationship through the use of figurative language and diction within the lyrics of a couple of their songs. A peculiar idea on the fear commitment is revealed in Death Cab for Cutie's "Your Heart Is An Empty Room" and "Someday You Will Be Loved" through the band's powerful use of figurative language. ... Distinctly, the speaker is talking to a person who found a girl he liked and ended up getting into a relationship with her, but then the person did not...

• Word Count: 841
• Approx Pages: 3

Salter's play with quality begins with the title. ... Salter suggests the sonnet is viewed through the eyes of Ben. ... He is now out of the surgery room and in his recovery room in the hospital. ... This signifies the reoccurring theme of double. ... This theme of double is further reinforced. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

But, it is more of a negative view upon "the abuse, not the thing" (Sydney 174). ... Another view on imitation by Plato is that " there are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them" (Plato 25). ... Plato though leaves little room for anything outside of imitation when he states that " innovation is full of danger to the whole State" (Plato 18). ... Sydney also states that even nations with little or no culture have poets, and poets of a country have survived the attempts of invaders to wipe them out. Overall, the ...

• Word Count: 827
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

With World War I raging in Europe, he volunteered for the French-based Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service. ... Because of a misunderstanding, Cummings spent four months in an internment camp in Normandy on suspicion of treason, an experience documented in his prose work The Enormous Room (1922). ... From that time, Cummings abandoned his liberal political views and social circle and became an embittered, reactionary conservative on social and political issues. ... Structured in a pattern of darkness moving toward light, 1 x 1 begins with poems that denigrate businessmen and politicians and ends ...

• Word Count: 1201
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The two poems by Emily Dickinson, "I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I Died" and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," revolve around the theme of dying. ... After reading the first stanza the reader can almost hear or sense the feeling of the fly buzzing in such a still and quiet room. ... The second stanza reads, "The eyes around had wrung them dry, and breaths were gathering firm for that last onset, when the king be witnessed in the room" (888). ... The buzzing fly blocks her view though of where she is heading and the light that was once there is now gone. ... De...

• Word Count: 949
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

It was her own conscious choice to deliberately withdraw from society into her upstairs room- (Tate 83). ... "Art forms were totally unknown to her, and nature was always viewed not in a cosmic way but in its smallest and most intimate forms" (Whicher 87). ... Miss Dickinson often writes out of habit allowing her poems to not require a point of view, but instead, they require for some of the deepest understanding, which allows her style to emerge even when she has nothing to say (Tate 86-87). ... Although her poems were written with deep intensity, it seems that her favorite themes were thunde...

• Word Count: 1228
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School