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Masochism In Edgar Allen Poe
<view this essay>.... I was especially fond of animals,...and I was never so happy as when I was feeding and caressing them. The peculiarity of character grew with my growth, and, in my manhood, I derived from it one of my principle sources of pleasure. To those who have cherished an affection for a faithful and sagacious dog. I need hardly be at the trouble of explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had a frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man ( The Black Cat 80) This citation I j .....
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Analysis Of Jarrell's "The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner"
<view this essay>.... World War II. The fighter is positioned in the ball turret
which was an enclosed bubble with a swivel gun in the belly of the plane.
This poem reads like a nightmare or dream being told by a soldier who
has been taken from his childhood and thrown into war. The soldier
describes the fear of awakening from the naive state of childhood into the
preeminent likelihood of his death during the "State" of war (line 1). He
describes the disconnection he feels from Earth and what he calls it "dream
of life" as if life only existed in birth and death (line 3). When he
awakens to "black flak" and "nighmare fighters" he seems to imply that all
that lies between .....
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Analysis Of Frost's "Desert Places" And "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening"
<view this essay>.... not simple poems.
In the poem "Desert Places" the speaker is a man who is traveling
through the countryside on a beautiful winter eventing. He is completely
surrounded with feelings of loneliness. The speaker views a snow covered field
as a deserted place. "A blanker whiteness of benighted snow/ With no expression,
nothing to express". Whiteness and blankness are two key ideas in this poem.
The white sybolizes open and empty spaces. The snow is a white blanket that
covers up everything living. The blankness sybolizes the emptyness that the
speaker feels. To him there is nothing else around except for the unfeeling snow
and his lonely thoughts.
The sp .....
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Dover Beach: Conflicting Imagery
<view this essay>.... image
that most people associate with tranquility and turned it into a depressing
scene. The stanza ends with “The eternal note of sadness” being brought in
by the sea. The poet is comparing the sea to the sum of all human troubles.
The sea is eternal just as human suffering is eternal. The sea has also
seen all of the human suffering and in it's roar the poet can hear that
suffering.
When the poet talks about Sophocles and the Aegean he is clearly
reinforcing the idea of the sea being the bearer of misery. The reference
is to Sophocles tragic plays and the suffering that necessarily accompanied
them. This image becomes powerful as the reader realizes that the .....
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Analysis Of WH Auden's Poem: Eternal Love
<view this essay>.... the
man's belief in the overwhelming power and durability of love.
The attitude of the clocks however, is of pessimistic warning. For
no matter how strong a man's love may be, time winds inexorably along. One
cannot halt nor reverse the march of time, it is unconquerable, the
unrenewable commodity. The tone of the poem turns reproachful, dark, as
the clocks' chime tells of the world that is powerless before time. To say
that " vaguely life leaks away," the author is possibly attempting to covey
that every moment lost cannot be retrieved, that every second that goes by
is a second closer to the death of the body and to the death of love. The
images of the .....
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Critical Analysis Of "The Eagle" By Lord Tennyson
<view this essay>.... feet a line. The rhyme scheme is every last word in each stanza
rhyme's.
Some of the imagery is with sight and sound. For sight they are “Close
to the sun”, “Azure world”, azure mean the blue color in a clear daytime sky. “
Wrinkled sea beneath”, and “mountain walls”. The only one that was imagery of
sight & sound was “like a thunderbolt he falls”.
The figures of speech are “wrinkled sea”, which means the waves in the
ocean. And one simile is “like a thunderbolt he falls”, it is saying how fast a
eagle dives.
The poems theme is how an eagle can fly so high and dive so fast. And
how free an eagle is. I thought that this was a nice poem. I like the w .....
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A Critical Analysis Of "The Parting" By Michael Drayton
<view this essay>.... thoughts and
feelings into as compact a form as possible. This distillation process
means that the waffle that would have filled up a piece of prose has to be
cut, and leaves a much clearer, less cluttered version of his feelings.
Often, he has to sum up in one line of the poem what he would normally have
written a paragraph or more on. For example, "Shake hands forever, cancle
all our vows" sums up very concisely the idea of the break being forever,
with no possibility of a reconciliation, whilst also adding to the ease of
understanding and therefore also to the meaning of the poem.
Another constraint of the sonnet is the length of the lines
themselves. In a .....
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Essay Interpreting "One Art" By Elizabeth Bishop
<view this essay>.... then in the last line,
herself.
Language in "One Art" is simple, yet many literary devices are used. The last
line repeated, to the effect of "The art of losing isn't hard to master"
suggests that the speaker is trying to convince herself that losing things is
not hard and she should not worry. Also, the speaker uses hyperboles when
describing in the fifth tercet that she lost "two cities...some realms I owned."
Since she could not own, much less lose a realm, the speaker seems to be
comparing the realm to a large loss in her life. Finally, the statement in the
final quatrain "Even losing you" begins the irony in that stanza. The speaker
remarks that losing th .....
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