.... with his love. Using the wind, the water, fire and nature as his tools, Whitman encompasses the reader with a sense of warmth and love. Before venturing on to specifics, Whitman reveals the meaning of Live Oak, With Moss . Symbolic of himself, he describes the Live Oak, With Moss as a rude, unbending, and lusty creature, alone in a field, with only soft moss for comfort. The significance of the description is overwhelming. Whitman see's himself as a rude, closed-minded, and lusty person, who spends a considerable amount of time alone. However, Whitman views himself as a different person when he is in the company of his companion. With the live Oak representing .....

.... ÒBut one sad lose ruins the name for ay.Ó This line shows that Childe Harold is upset with the reputation that he has inherited from his family. Just as Bruce Wayne d Üoes Childe Harold strives to break this mold and become someone who isn't associated with the likes of his ancestors. In Childe Harold's case he breaks this mold by running away from his father's castle and exploring nature. Bruce Wayne on the other hand invents himself a new identity that differs in every way from the preset mold into which he was born. In the fourth stanza Harold tells us that Childe Harold is unhappy and upset with the society around him. ÒThen loathed he in his nat .....

.... course. It shows how the tumbleweed and the poet are victims of the environment around them. The circumstances around them have relegated them to being tossed about from one place to another. “ 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 th .....

.... unrestrained and makes her own decisions. The reader's first view of Hester's uniqueness in The Scarlet Letter, is the scarlet letter. Hester has transformed the society's sign of guilt into her own work of art by decoration the "A" with elegant stitching and golden thread. Her interpretation of the punishment clashes with that of her neighbors, and she is not reluctant to stress their contrast of opinions. She does not fear men, as most women did in her time. It was mandatory in her society that women respected their husbands, and did what the men ordered. Hester fears neither the leaders of the community nor her husband. She demonstrates her conf .....

.... upon by the death of a beloved lady. The parallelism of Poe’s own personal problems, with those of the narrator in “The Raven,” his calculated use of symbolism, and the articulation of language through the use of the raven’s refrain, the reader becomes aware of Poe’s prominent tone of melancholy. A strong device for the melancholic tone in "The Raven" is Poe’s use of the first person. Poe used the first person by virtue of the situations in "The Raven" taking direct influence from Poe's life experiences. Among many other misfortunes, including living a life of poverty and being orphaned at a young age, Poe’s beloved wife Virginnia, died after a long illness .....

.... convey his questions and heart felt acceptance of his blindness. Milton uses figurative language to express his grievances and discontent. He reflects upon his life and “how my light is spent,” or the time he had his sight. Milton then expresses the feeling of the “dark world and wide” of the blind as his introduction to his questions. He begins to question his writing that only death can take away (“...one talent which is death to hide..”), “ lodged... useless” within him because of his new blindness. As a result, Milton begins to question God, “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” Milton wonders as to the meaning of his blindness; Does God want him t .....

.... It can also be looked upon as the Petty Herst syndrom - meaning having a 'reality' so intense and strong that one feels incapable of any other 'reality', fearing it can and will be worse. The poem is built of four stanzas( quatrain ), each consisting of four lines. The rhyme scheme is, in the first stanza - abab, in the second - cdcd, in the third - efef, and in the fourth - ghgh. The meter is trecet iamb ( stressed unstressed - three times per line ). The central image in the poem is the metaphor in which the beatings are described as a waltz. The poet is led around the house, dancing - not beaten around. Which is also brought throu by .....

.... the only knight that offered to take Arthur's place. He could have easily stood back and let Arthur have his go at the Green Knight. He showed to have more honor and courage than the rest of Arthur's Court by coming forward. "Would you grant me the grace,' said Gawain to the King, 'To be gone from this bench and stand by you there." (Gawain, lines 343-344) "I am the weakest, well I know, and of wit feeblest; And the loss of my life would be least of any;" (Gawain, 355-356). The poem is full of instances in which Gawain was forced to face difficult decisions. Gawain could have simply left Camelot never to return. He instead chose the option of keep .....