The Aeneid is a reflection of the governmental policies of Augustus in moral, social and religious ideas, which Virgil seems to have been in agreement over, resulting in a poem, which seems to be overwhelmingly positive about the future of Rome under Augustus. Virgil had to create in his hero >>>
The first line of the first stanza is significant, 'We stood by a pond that winter day', the deliberate use of the word 'winter' sets the scene in the way it tells us the time in the year and the mood, cold, chilly, dead. These poems also show the negative >>>
And yet, another important theme is contained in "Hope is the Thing with Feathers." Dickinson gives herself and everyone else the claim that hope is always present in life. The point is that the choice was hers, and she made it.
The setting of the poem is of a cold Sunday morning and the action taking place is of a father stoking up the fireplace in his house in order to fight the bitter winter. The poet expresses the fact that this act of devotion of the father was driven by >>>
Riley gives a detailed account of the place and he sounds nostalgic about the fact that his childhood is already in the past. In contrast, Riley's poem is a extensive with a comprehensive description of the place where Riley has spent his childhood.
Also, the second poem has used the break lines in the second and the third sentences. In the marriage poem which shows the diversity of the use of words.
The repetition of the line shows the urgency of the persona to prevent is father's death, it shows that he has some hope and feels that his father might live longer if he held on. The use of repetition is varied and effective in poetry.
Wo did her best to find a personal balance between what made her a Dominican and a Haitian in a divided landWho hid with Dona Valencia in the hopes of avoiding the massacre of the Haitians in the Dominican Republic. Who wanted nothing more than to continue living in the >>>
The productivity here is economic and it encompasses all Americans as illustrated in the first line of the first stanza as: "I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear". Poetic Elements Illustrating the ThemeThe poem "I Hear America Singing" relays the theme of productivity through the employment of various >>>
The reader is intrigued by the author's style in rhyme at the beginning of the poem where in the first stanza we are familiarised of the harsh life the life of the poet is as compared to life under the ancient Babylonian cruelty. The reader gets to understand the setting >>>
Parentheses play a big role in this poem because in the first half of the poem describes the picture with hills, a house, a lake, and a thing that is like a branch: part of a tree / emerging. This is a poem of Atwoods life and how she is >>>
From the very beginning of the poem, a vivid and ominous atmosphere is created- take the first stanza for example: "The night is still and sombre, and in the murky gloom, arisen from his slumber, the vampire leaves his tomb." It is quite easy to notice the strong adjectives and >>>
However, from a careful analysis of the context of the poem and the society in which it is set in, it is evident that women also played a key role in the poem. It is thus obvious that women played a critical role in the poem of Beowulf.
So the two duel and sir gawain's brother takes the head of the green knight and the green knight lives. The Green Knight tells sir gawain his name he said his name is Bertilak and tells him that he is the king of the castle where Gawain was at.
Imagery is also evident in the poets description of the waters in which the ship was assail as a water body splashing towards the sky which is also dark and black as the rain. He understood the limitations of the human body and strived to achieve excellence by reducing the >>>
According to Licklider, the invention of man-computer symbiosis can enhance increase computer-human relationship as well as, this relationship can bring drastic changes in the world. In other words, it can be said that the invention of man-computer symbiosis is the gateway to revolutionize the world.
Also, being bittersweet, using the example of syrup implies that the dream deferred is hard and sour on the outside, yet sweet on the inside. It's as though the memory of the dream is in the bag, and the disappointment of the dream's impossibility weighs the dreamer down.
In the three poems, "Oh, my love is like a red, red rose," "The Victory," and "My Life had stood a Loaded Gun," authors Robert Burns, Anne Stevenson, and Emily Dickinson, respectively, use these techniques to impart their intentions to the reader. In describing his love as a "red rose" >>>
The primary theme of The Epic of Gilgamesh is that of love and friendship, and how it can make people change for the better. Explain how you understand this passage and whether or not the values expressed here are in opposition to the dominant values of your society.
In The Red Wheelbarrow, by William Carlos Williams, the first thing that catches the attention of the reader is the layout of the poem. Along with the layout of the poem, the imagery in the text helps the reader to picture the setting, which could lead to a better understanding >>>
In the play The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, there are multiple different types of greed encountered throughout the play; greed, and greed in vengeance. Abigail Williams was also another person to demonstrate a great amount of greed in the story.
The men that surround her do not believe that she is mentally ill, and because of their status and gender, it is believed that they are right. It takes several attempts and by being able to read the background of it, makes the reader connect and understand the work on >>>
In "Unknown Citizen," JS/07 N 378's life is recounted through the perspective of the Bureau of Statistics; even from the beginning, the reader can detect the impersonal nature of the report, as the real name of the man is not even said, this further humanizing him, as well as making >>>
These are the poems from the Immigrant Chronicles which are a collection of Peter's and hisfamily's migrant experiences and their endeavor to gain a sense of acceptance and belonging in their new country. The arrival's family rejoins with him and their sense of belonging is completed.
According to Bonnie Moss in the article titled Hierarchy of angels "Seraphim are the highest order of the Hierarchy of Angels. Poe could have referenced any type of angle as opposed to seraphim, however since it is believed that seraphim are of the highest order of hierarchy of angels, perhaps >>>
In the poems: "Neutral Tones", "A Broken Appointment" and "The Moth- Signal " are all examples of poems by Thomas Hardy that does not require awareness of his background to be interpreted by the reader. Since infidelity is a common issue, the background of Hardy is not needed to influence >>>
In the first stanza, the speaker talks about the funeral in her brain. These rational thoughts keep "treading" in her brain and try to bring the sense and sanity that the speaker is losing.
Pulled away from destructive, seductive thoughts of death, she engages with the emotional risks of love when the conditions seem to glorify her as much as her beloved; thus the speaker is both the subject and object of love, revising without entirely reversing the Perchance tradition in which the woman >>>
The tone of this list is very conversational as there are many pauses due to the commas; this enables the reader to see the persona is remecising and almost talking to themselves about their brothers. The poem 'Nostalgia' immediately gives the reader an idea of the theme of the poem, >>>
This allows the reader to have a deeper connection with the work than merely taking in what the author is putting across, in a way that encourages extensive internal processing of the ideas more than just a literal and factual description of the ideas the author wanted to portray may >>>
Thomas is bitter that his father is dying and has not the will to fight against it. This is the life that Emily never had and she gladly embraced it.
The speaker seems to be speaking to a semi- private audience given the intimacy of the poem, and the way it speaks to the children. The speaker seems to be Bradstreet, speaking the poem first as a story about her children, as the tone changes near the end of the >>>
The studies Sandstorm, Maslow, Combs, Kelly and Rogers, and the Bee shows that feelings of tension will be the magic as acts of reconciliation done at home and in school. Community Attitude does not matter in the environment causes the security of property and lives of business community submitted to >>>
A misconception to confuse us is brought by this wave and in turn retells us of the power of our minds. We live in the illusion of things and everything is a misconception within a misconception; that is a dream within a dream and a bed of cloud.
In the next line, he says "Little we see in Nature that is ours;"; here Wordsworth uses the word "little" to stress the idea of not taking care of nature and he capitalized the first letter of "Nature" to show its importance to the reader as it is a divine. >>>
The "Clearances" collection is an insight into Seamus Heaney and his mother's relationship, it deals with his mother who is deceased, sonnet 3 is set in the past, it deals with distant past and the author's link to his mother'sfamilyhistory which he is not directly part of. The sonnet is >>>
The two poets try to give insight to the societies of the world and assert that the society ought to show love to women if their pain, as depicted in the two poems, is to be averted". The use of different language structures such as comma and semicolon is also >>>
The sonnet form is also used in 'Poem', it is very surprising that the sonnet form is used in this poem as the reader at the end of the poem is left with hatred due to what the character in the poem has done.'I am very bothered' and 'Poem' are >>>
Describing the skin cracking like a "pod" suggests that people are "breaking" due to the lack of the main life source: water, which is the title of the poem for the people in poverty, a "Blessing". It is interesting how the poet uses a "congregation" of people which refers to >>>
The reader is meant to be the indifferent announcer of "The Guitar". As in, it is useless to grant ease and reduce the intense confusion of the guitar, and it is impossible to separate the guitar from the stagnant and unseen insensitivities.
I think Auden meant the reason for people's selfishness, when it comes to disaster, to be from how used they were to tragedy. This quote from the text seems to give a clear answer to why Icarus's death seemed so unimportant; it was simply because people were too caught up >>>
The title of this poem was effective because the poet was comparing our life to the life of candle flame and how it can be put out. The poem "Out, Out" by Robert Frost will remain vividly in my head because of all the effective techniques he used to get >>>
Parker misleads the reader in the first and second stanzas into believing the romantic with word choices like "tenderly", "pure", and "perfect" to describe the rose and its sender directly influencing the readers initial reaction to the poem; as well as he way she writes the poem. Parker allows the >>>
Personally, I took the image of eyes to symbolize the shame the speaker feels in front of others because he's never found love. Overall, the speaker in "The Love Story of J.
The poem narrates the consciousness of the atmosphere in the political, economical, and political spheres of the US, the poem regards the freedom of speech 'say only what we know and imagine 'the need to embrace change as change is inevitable. The poem insists on individual self thought that for >>>
Much of Gwendolyn Brooks' work depicted difficult life in the inner city and displayed the struggles of, mostly black, oppressed and marginalized people of the United States."The Mother" reflects the inner conflict of wanting to do "the right thing" but not be able to because of a lack of resources. >>>
From what I gathered the theme of this poem is a about the narrator watching, listening to, and describing the character that that has the blues and is actually singing the blues on the main street in his town. Sometimes I hear people tell a story of how someone so >>>
The leading character commits the murder of a prideful man who is hooked to the pleasure of drinking wine."The Fall of the House of Usher" is a story that revolves around the terror and death of both Redbrick and his sister, Madeline Usher. Usher is overwhelmed by the despair and >>>
To start with Hardy calls Emma "woman" showing that he does not really know what she is to him and to me it's like he does not know how to talk about her and as if he has not got the right due to no treating her like his wife. >>>
However, both poems show celebration at the end of the poems such as "Feast on your life" in Love after love and "In all this excitement" in This room. The quote "When the improbable arrives" in This room makes the reader think that nothing is impossible and that getting rid >>>
The author used a number of imagery to depict the themes of the poem. The choice of 'November' as the title is effective in that this is clearly the winter of the grandmother's life, which is drawing to its close.
In the second stanza, the speaker describes the old womans viciousness in detail: She drove a loaded V8 poweglide And would have run you flat as paint To make the light before it turned on her, Make it as she watched you faint The loaded V8 powerglide that the lady >>>
One's suspense is intensified by the fact the reader also does not know what is making the person in the poem "weak". In "The Raven" the antagonist or the conflict in the poem is the raven".
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Ghazal is in the style of a traditional Persian love poem, which puts forward powerful imagery and metaphors, in an attempt to summarise the emotion of love, while In Paris With You is a playful attempt to woo a previous lover in a more informal, colloquial way. Although it is >>>
Shakespeare's play is quite alike 'A Frosty Night' as the conflict is revealed through dialogue while in 'Catrin' and 'What Has Happened to Lulu' the narrative is conveyed through the first person. In all the poems, the conflict in a parent-child relationship is not as serious as in Romeo and >>>
In A Constable Calls many of the words have underlying connotations which contribute to the theme of violence in the poem:"Its fat, black handle grips"This quote, being very oppressive in nature, relates to the English administration in Northern Ireland and the force it uses to keep events in order". Violence >>>
Frost paints a depressing picture of walking alone in the darkest night, using language to create a feeling of desolation and solitude in addition to his deliberate use of the terza rima rhyme scheme to conjure a feeling of a lack of forward progression. From the very beginning of the >>>
In the first stanza, he starts off with the title of the poem stating, "we wear the mask that grins and lies". This stanza really goes into the mind of the person speaking, and the outcome is a part of the reason why they wear "masks." The poem reads, "Why >>>
Each poem is set in its own mood and the mood can help the reader to understand the poem."Dockery and Son" is the first poem. To write a poem on this is what forms the base of a real ingenious poet and Larkin is this in my opinion.
The poet, Eliot, reflects on the masterpieces of the Modernist Movement that shows the character traits of Modernism. Eliot the modernist poet, experiments with the structure and form of the poem.
In the last stanza of the poem Yeast uses imagery by painting the picture of the old woman ".bending down beside the glowing bars". Generally, Millay uses the images of nature to show how her past love vanished and where she is today.
In the poem 'A Poem should not mean but be' the poet causes the reader to question themselves over how they read a poem, how they see it.'A Poem should not mean but be' the Poet here from the title is saying a poem should not be looked upon by >>>
The first clue that this poem is about more than just a tiger is that it is full of questions."What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" asks Blake at both the beginning and the end of the poem. When the Lamb is mentioned in "The Tyger," it >>>
The speaker thinks back to his childhood where he would swing from the trees and float to the ground. He wishes to again climb the trees to escape the world for a while, and climb toward the heavens, but float back down to earth where there is love".
Next, the persona compares harmful "Moving of th' earth" to innocent "trepidation of the spheres," equating the first with "dull sublunary lovers' love" and the second with their love, "Inter-assured of the mind". The purpose of this dichotomy is to create a form of emotional aristocracy.
Another example of the childs love and respect for his father is illustrated in the things he overlooks just to be able to carryout the dance. Although his approach is different, Hayden uses one of the same references to his father as Roethke: his hand.
If we read the biography of Maya Angelou we will relies that in all three poems she has actually highlighted the issues that she has faced in her life which were basically related to racism, sexist image of women and the desire to go away from the evils of the >>>
The poem "Out, out" by Robert Frost tells the story of a young boy who lost his life under and disastrous situation."Disabled" by Wilfred Owen portrays, in comparison, a man who had a left piece of his body in war. In "Out Out" for instance the desperation of the boy >>>
The title of the poem, 'In Paris With You' establishes what the reader supposes is the setting of the poem: Paris. The title of the poem immediately puts the reader in mind of romance, particularly that the title indicates that the speaker is in Paris with someone else.
In order to have purpose in our lives, we have to seek the beauty in life, and accept the circumstances that occur. We are all capable of creating a life with meaning, continuously learning and adapting to our surroundings, and seeking the best life has to offer.
He used 'The Tyger' to portray the evil in the world, and the lamb to portray the goodness in the world. He wrote his poem 'The Lamb' to show the goodness of the world.
The enjambed lines may indicate control that the speaker is exerting on the conversation and give the feeling that the speaker is rushing through parts of the poem, possibly smimming over the parts the show him in a unflattering light. When the Duke speaks of the death of his wife, >>>
In the poems: "Neutral Tones , "A Broken Appointment and "The Moth- Signal are all examples of poems by Thomas Hardy that does not require awareness of his background to be interpreted by the reader. Since infidelity is a common issue, the background of Hardy is not needed to influence >>>
The poem Cousin Kate was written by Christina Rossetti and is the story of a cottage maiden and how she was seduced and used by the lord of the estate for which she worked. Cousin Kate correlates with this as it is also a monologue, although is not being spoken >>>
In this first stanza of the poem, the theme is pointed out by the use of the word "dying". The main theme of death is excellently portrayed in this poem.
Alternatively, it could also be interpreted that the 'stream' is referring to life in general and that it 'endlessly' passes each of us by without a thought from anybody. This verse is very repetitive and simple in language, which shows that it is blunt and straight to the point.
Basically what this woman is trying to say is that this man is a fool in the aspect of life and relationships. What the speaker is trying to portray is that they may live mortal lives but their love will last forever.
Her opening statement uses a metaphor to make the usual idea of love negative.'It is a moon wrapped in dark paper' uses a metaphor to describe the many levels of emotion associated with a relationship. A metaphor is used to link this relationship to an image of a loving relationship >>>
The poet uses the central concept of the door, which is used as a dual metaphor that can be viewed as a symbol of a barrier, a symbol of what restricts us. The ideas present in the second stanza build up the same way as in the first stanza; there >>>
The poem 'A marriage', by Michael Blumenthal presents feelings about marriage in many different ways, A feeling that the poet clearly outlines about marriage is that it provides help and support, this is shown when he says "You are holding up a ceiling and "to the ceiling beside you , >>>
The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine", the desire and love he has for her is burning deep inside of him, and he needs her."But might I of Jove's nectar sup I would not change for thine", meaning he cannot live without her. The >>>
Her mother is giving her comfort and reassuring her that even though people go through obstacles, you need to be strong enough to go through many aspects in life to bringhappiness. You will make it through because she believes her daughter has the strength to get through all the obstacles >>>
On the surface, the poem is an animal poem which reminds us of the wrath and violence of the Jaguar. But, in front of the cage of the Jaguar the situation is different.
Techniques involving the choice of diction, atmosphere, and the change of mood demonstrate Hardy's implication as shown in "The Darkling Thrush". The choice of the sinister diction allows for the comparison to stand out of its stanza, thus reinstating the importance of Hardy's atmosphere and mood.
William Wordsworth writes about the complexity and power that he sees in his sonnet, whereas William Blake writes about the social problems of people in the poorer areas of London. He sees the poverty and suffering the people go through and the way they are controlled by invisible rules binding >>>
To show how attitudes to the war changed as the Great War progressed I have chosen four poems."The soldier" by Rupert Brooke, "In Flanders Field" by John McCare and " Disabled" and "Dulce Et Decorum Est".both by Wilfred Owen. The Poem "Disabled" talks about how horrific injuries due to the >>>
The male who is in love with Porphyria shows desire and desperation as he uses repetition of the word amine' as he say's it as he owns her, but he also tries to hide his desperation and lust. But we know he wants her as he expresses all of his >>>
This anthology is a reflection of some beautiful poems on winter and give a little idea about how winter comes step by step and changes human life socially and physically. The second part of anthology is focused on winter and emotion related to winter.
The speakers realization that children of the modern day world are deprived the knowledge of the intricate and colorful past is explored in this poem. The first stanza brings in the in the main theme, what the speaker is preaching about, the importance and significance of our heritage.
The stanzas, as well as rhyming and other techniques, construct a natural flow and rhythm for the poem and emphasise the bride's emotional distress. The poem is in first person and it is in the perspective of the bride-to-be.
Being an Elegy, the main theme of this poem is death, which is shown as a natural process, and is explored through the life and ageing process of the speaker's father, and the speakers' grief for his father. From line 12 to 17, the speaker describes his grandfather's youth and >>>
This simile is used very effectively as it not only adds to the visual imagery of the reader but also captivates the reader by hinting to the reader about the lack of water in an area which is further described in more detail.the next line clearly states the theme of >>>
Wordsworth describes poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and he focuses on the personal quality of the experience to inform the reader of his reaction to the environment surrounding him and the emotions created when he comes in contact with the beauty of nature. Wordsworth presents this idea >>>
The stanzas document the transition of expression as she goes on to say how the hairbands are given away in her dream, how she misses the hairbands and how she is affected by the incident. In stark contrast, she is haunted by the thought of not having the hairbands with >>>
The main focus of the poem is on a woman yet her story cannot even be given the privilege of having it be told on the focal point of the page. Interestingly enough there is a section in the fourth page of the poem that leads one to believe that >>>