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Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
<view this essay>.... lost love Lenore. Poe uses the words "Nameless here for evermore" to show Lenore is dead and gone. His use of italics on the word herealso shows through in this instance.As the rapping continues, the fear builds inside of the man. The natural reaction for anyone in this situation is to convince yourself there isn't anything there. That is exactly what he did. He says it is a late night visitor and nothing more. Then he begins to explain out loud that he was napping, and the visitor came rapping and woke him up. He opens the door to look at who or what is there, but all he sees is the darkness of the night. At that point the man's mind went wild, wondering, .....
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Mother And Child In Sylvia Plath Poems
<view this essay>.... using threes and sevens quite prolifically, as every stanza is either three or nine lines long (9 = 3²) and multiples of seven occur twice in the total number of stanzas in each poem.
Three and seven both seem to have a particular significance in life.
There are triunes in religion, (Father, Son, Holy Spirit,) science (energy, matter, ether,) spiritualism (mind, body, spirit,) and psychiatry (superconscious, conscious, subconscious) to name but a few, while nine is the number of months in a human pregnancy (divided into three trimesters). Sevens also occur frequently: there are seven cardinal virtues; seven deadly sins; seven ages of man; seven days in a week .....
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Analysis Of The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
<view this essay>.... the poem can present itself in a
fairly straightforward manner in the vein of CARPE DIEM. In the third
stanza, the author writes, "'Open then the Door!/ You know how little while
we have to stay,/ And, once departed, may return no more." There's several
refrains to this throughout the poem, first in the seventh stanza: "Come,
fill the cup. . ./ The Bird of Time has but a little way/ To flutter-and
the bird is on the Wing." The entire ninth stanza describes the summer
month "that brings the Rose" taking "Jamshyd and Kaikobad away", and so
forth and so on ad nauseum. Again, in the fifty-third stanza: "You gaze
To-Day, while You are You-how then/ Tomorrow, You .....
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Emily Dickinson: Individuality
<view this essay>.... the state where Emily was born and raised, was the epicenter of religious practice before the transcendental period. Founded by the Puritans, the feeling of avenging had never left the people. After all of the “Great Awakenings” and religious revivals, the people of New England began to question the old ways. What used to be the focal point of all lives was now under speculation and often doubted. People began to search for new meanings in life. People like Emerson and Thoreau believed that answers lie in the individual. Emerson set the tone for the era when he said, “Insist on yourself; never imitate” (McMichael 691). Emily Dickinson believed and prac .....
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Analysis Of Blake's "London"
<view this essay>.... that separate the citizens of London. By repeating the word "charter'd", he reminds the reader of the commercial nature of the city, the fact that portions of it are owned, and that not everyone has equal access to goods or property. In the first line of his poem as Blake speaks of how he is wandering through the "charter'd" streets, he is commenting on this commercial aspect of London. As he moves on in his poem he also refers to the "charter'd" Thames, he is telling us in this second line that even a river which is a force of nature, is owned in London. When Blake says that he sees "marks of weakness, marks of woe" in "every face" he meets, he means that .....
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Millay Vs Cummings
<view this essay>.... an ho we must act in
order to accept it. In "since Feeling Is First, Cumming's theme is just the
opposite. Cummings is saying we should enjoy life by acting like a fool and not
talin things seriously.
Millay stresses the unimportance of feelin. "life must go on,/ And the dead by
forgotten" (15-16). Cummmings attitude is totally different. He believes that
feelings are very important. Cummings streeses that being foolish is better
than being smart and serious: "and kisses are better fate/ than wisdom."(8-9)
Millay uses simple language, where as cummings uses more complete language. In
"Lament," Millay stresses her point by usingan unusual style of w .....
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To Autumn By John Keats
<view this essay>.... stanza, sound of line makes the image bulge softly in the language as the fruits itself. The first line states that “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” recalls the cold of the mists as well as the mellowness of the season of harvest (line 1). In the line five, “The mossed cottage-trees,” sounds like the scrunch of teeth through an apple releasing the sharp flow of juice (line 5). The next line curves with the lushness of “swell the ground,” but any excess is checked neatly by the astonishing “plump” appearing as a verb and wonderfully solid and nutty to touch (line 7). The last three lines in the first stanza move heavily and lazily to that most summa .....
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Harlem By Langston Hughs: Analysis
<view this essay>.... words were kept simplistic and not to hard to understand. The poem was not written in what was thought to be “proper” dialect. The writer uses contractions several times. In line eleven Hughs used “there’s”, line fifteen and 21 he used “we’re”, and in line fourteen Hughs used “can’t”.
The tone Hughs expressed in writing “Harlem” can be confusing to the reader. The tone seems to be of anger and then almost threatening or hostile. Hughs is expressing the frustration he and many other black people had to put up with. He talks about how prices of food are going up, tax increases, and jobs black could never get just because they are colored. In the .....
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