To begin, the title of the poem suggests that it is written by a man to his coy (shy) mistress. ... The title addresses who the poem is from and who it is being addressed to. ... The character is trying to say that even though they cannot make time stand still, yet they will make their time pass by quickly if they do not act promptly. ...
The title of Hansberry's play comes from Hughes's poem which had a double purpose. ... The title of the poem impacts Hansberry's plot and meaning in that each of the Younger's fights with their "dreams deferred," and the line "Or does it explode?" ... In Act II, Scene I of the play, one can see the extent to which their dreams for happiness of being together began to "dry up." ...
Browning also became adept at indicating physical action and gesture but the important one is the act of speaking "of arguing, pleading informing, reminiscing, of thinking aloud or of justifying oneself. ... We soon deduce even without the 1842 title Madhouse Cells that the speaker in the poem is insane. ... He believes God's silence indicates that God condones his act. ...
The job of the chorus was not to act but to go onto the stage and read out the prologue. ... The prologue had to stand out and gain the audiences attention because when the play was originally acted out there were no special effects or computer graphics. ... The title states that the play is a "tragedy" and the prologue helps to emphasise this. ...
Except from reinforcing the concept of an extended metaphor, the poem is even already specified in the title: "The Author to Her Book". In other words, This could be seen as a great feminist act considering the author of the poem is a female experiencing the restrictions put upon her in the context of the 17th Century male domineered world. ...
Analyzing the Alluring "Siren Song" Your next encounter will be with the Sirens, who bewitch everybody who approaches them. There is no home-coming for the man who draws near them unawares...for with their high clear song the Sirens bewitch him, as they sit there in a meadow piled high with the mou...
It looks like a simple act but in actuality it is the poet's whole life summed up. ... As we look at the title, now, we can see the symbolism that Whitman used to show us his life through friendship and the life towards the end without them. ...
Whether you refer to his poem as "A Song" or "Ask Me No More," Carew revolutionizes the love poem and redefines beauty in such a way that the recipient of these words could care less about what the poem is called simply because it would be just as romantic with any other title. ... Not only does this structural difference distinguish "A Song" from other poems of the time, but the way Carew approaches the act of describing the subject's beauty also stands out. ...
Throughout the poem, the hawk is described as being in its resting state, and appears to be more pensive than active (hence the title of the poem). ... The monosyllabic language expresses the simplicity in the hawk's life as he can act as he pleases as he is the sole ruler of the natural world. ...
Robert Frost is famous for his ability to ask the reader about their life with the use of simplistic words. Frost does this by using the poetic technique of duality. Duality is the contraction of two opposite qualities; for example light and dark or left and right are two dualities. Along with the u...
She see the title as constraining because earlier in the poem the girl blossoms into a woman, but by being "wife,"" she is left there without possible growth. ... By marrying, the woman becomes his property, so-to-speak, and can no longer act independently. ...
