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Differences Between 18th Century Literature And Romantic Poetry Seen Through The Works From Alexander Pope And John Keats
Words: 1307 / Pages: 5 .... portray his deeper feelings
of life. Popes' efforts here are of outstanding quality. However, his poem did
fail to convince Arabella to résumé her engagement to Lord Petre. Most of
Pope's efforts here were written with time. Now, Keats has romantically
serenaded his reader with descriptive lust and desire, which can be compared
with popes' efforts by the difference in eighteenth century literature and
romantic poems, their descriptive natures and ideas they portray to the reader
through their writing.
Pope has written an eighteenth-century poem which he calls, "An Hero-
Comical Poem." This poem has exalted an over all sense of worthle .....
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"Ode On A Grecian Urn"
Words: 725 / Pages: 3 .... from different standpoints, at different times, and by different individuals. Although a "bride," it can never be entirely fulfilled. In the next line it is the "foster-child of silence and slow time," the urn exists in time because it is only throughout time and its events that we can even begin to understand the scenes it presents in their relation to our own experience. "The Sylvan historian, describes the panels on the urn that present ancient woodland scenes, they probably tell the history of a past way of life.
In the second and third stanzas Keats is talking about the music that is playing to the spirits, because he says "it's sweeter unheard." .....
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Nature Imagery In Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems"
Words: 2002 / Pages: 8 .... what poetry is supposed to do? She suggests that
A poem can't free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites buried under the accumulating emergencies of our lives, the fabricated wants and needs we have had urged on us, have accepted as our own. It's not a philosophical or psychological blueprint; it's an instrument for embodied experience. But we seek that experience, or recognize it when it is offered to us, because it reminds us in some way of our need. After that rearousal of desire, the task of acting on that truth, or making love, or meeting other needs, is ours. (Smith 590)
Thus, Rich highligh .....
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Analysis Of “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost
Words: 1295 / Pages: 5 .... different literary techniques to express the theme or themes of his poem. The two themes that I got from the poem were, 1) the dilemma of making a choice, and the danger of not knowing where that decision will take you, and 2) a tale telling the reader to be different, and to take the road “less traveled”.
“And sorry I could not travel both…” It is always hard to make important decisions because you are always going to wonder what might have happened if you had chosen the other path. The speaker has no way of knowing what awaits him at either of his destinations, but he still must choose between the two paths.
The most common literary .....
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Tumbleweed: Central Theme
Words: 758 / Pages: 3 .... “ To catch at the barbed wire and hang there, shaking,
like a riddled prisoner.” The poet tells us using strong images of pain and
injury that the tumbleweed was thrown against a fence, a kind of prison
from which it is difficult to escape. So the tumbleweed and the poet are
both thrust against the barbed wire of life. This is another metaphor for
the poet's difficult life. The poet and the tumbleweed are stuck in a
painful, difficult situation. They are prisoners of their surroundings,
helpless. “Like a riddled prisoner.” The words riddled prisoner are used to
give us a powerful, painful, picture of the lost and hopeless feeling of
the .....
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The Poetry Of William Blake
Words: 619 / Pages: 3 .... a
Lamb. With this he brings religious significance into the poem. It the
New Testament, Jesus of Nazareth is referred as God's Lamb.
There are a few themes developed in "The Lamb." Blake describes
the lamb as symbol of childhood innocence. He also questions about how the
lamb was brought into existence, which mentions another theme of divine
intervention and how all creatures were created. The poem is nothing but
one wondering question to another (Harmon, p. 361).
"The Tiger" by William Blake describes the tiger as being an symbol
of evil. This is displayed when Blake says "What an anvil? what dread
grasp, Dare its deadly terro .....
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The Second Coming: Analysis
Words: 495 / Pages: 2 .... point where all control is lost and faith in God has been abandoned. The next line of the poem explains this process; “things fall apart” indicates that the runaway war has sparked disorder in the public. “The centre cannot hold,” signifies that the obedience to God has lost its value. Even though there may be more than one interpretation, the metaphor points up one socio-religious theme that society has lost order and in turn lost faith in God.
The second metaphor conveys Yeats’ idea that anarchy has taken over. The metaphor begins with “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed," suggesting that the purity of the soul has been corrupted by t .....
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Ozymandias (1818): An Analysis
Words: 834 / Pages: 4 .... behind -- evidence of their existence. The
subject of Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" is an ancient king who shared this
common desire, but not in a common way. He not only wanted to leave behind
a record of himself for future generations, he wanted his memory exalted
above that of others, and even above the "Mighty" who would live after him.
He did not want to give up at death the power he had wielded in life.
The irony in this poem lies in the difference between what Ozymandias
intends -- to hold onto the glory of his works after time takes its course
with him -- and what actually happens. This great monument's "frown, / And
wrinkled lip, and .....
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Comparing "The Chimney Sweeper" And "Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience"
Words: 525 / Pages: 2 .... his father & never want joy”(p31 L 19-20). So after that he wakes up and forgets about his horrible duties to be fullfilled for that the Angel told him that it would be alright when the time comes. In the second poem from “Songs of Experience”, the boys viewpoint on religion changes. His optimistic view has changed into a dissapointed grudge towards God and the heavens. He has come to the harsh reality that being a child in a profession where help is needed, because the child can not help himself, God has let him down since he has not released him and the other boys from their coffins of black. He reveals this to the reader in the last stanza .....
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Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
Words: 1631 / Pages: 6 .... point, the athlete is "carried of the
shoulders of his friends after a winning race" (54). In Housman's words:
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high. (Housman 967).
Stanza two describes a much more somber procession. The athlete is being
carried to his grave. In Leggett's opinion, "The parallels between this
procession and the former triumph are carefully drawn" (54). The reader
should see that Housman makes another reference to "shoulders" as an
allusion to connect the first two stanzas: .....
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