Papers on Poets and Poems
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: Love Between Two People
Words: 1092 - Pages: 4.... “virtuous men pass mildly away” (line 1) because the virtue in their lives has assured them of glory and reward in the afterlife; hence, they die in peace without fear and emotion. He suggests that the separation of the lovers be like this separation caused by death. In the second stanza the speaker furthers his comparison for a peaceful separation. “So let us melt, and make no noise” (line 5) refers to the melting of gold by a goldsmith or alchemist. When gold is melted it does not sputter and is therefore quiet. The speaker and his love should not display their private, intimate love as “tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move” .....
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Beginnings--The Idea
Words: 824 - Pages: 3.... red rose,
That's newly sprung in
June
Probably not! At least, if he's smart. So how is his beloved like a flower? The rose is relatively rare and delicate; it needs to be treated with care. Being "newly sprung" implies that, as a fresh bloom, the rose is young. So what do these traits have to do with his beloved? Maybe she's uncommon ("rare"). Maybe she should be treated with courtesy and gentleness. Maybe she's young, or young to love (innocent), or just new to him.
So translating the images takes quite a bit of time and thought to figure out what meanings probably fit the poem's context and to reject those that probably don't. .....
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Emily Dickenson And The Theme Of Death
Words: 621 - Pages: 3.... reader's perception of the poem. The following passage conveys
a resplendent physical sense of coldness as someone is frozen to death:
"This is the Hour of Lead--
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow--
First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go--"
The innovative diction in this passage creates an eerie atmosphere all by
itself. The effect of this passage is reminiscent of the famous macabre
monologue at the end of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Dickenson also
excellently portrays the restlessness of the mourners in this following
passage:
"The Feet, mechanical, go round--
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought .....
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells": Analysis
Words: 379 - Pages: 2.... how they bring a sense of joy, and some what of a fortune, for
the future.
In stanza three there are sounds and descriptions of alarm bells.
He uses the words clanging, clashing, and roaring to give a sense of alarm.
He describes how the bells clamor and clangor out of tune in order to send
the message of alarm to those around it.
In the forth stanza there are bells that are rung for the diseased.
He says that the noises they make are mainly moans, and groans, from their
rusty iron throats. This gives the feeling of sadness and sorrow. He
also makes it seem like the bells are alive, and they want to be rung
making more people de .....
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Beowulf: First Literary Superhero
Words: 455 - Pages: 2.... arm and squeezes until the torture is
unbearable. Grendel loses his strength, his body parts, and his blood in
this violent scene. He later bleeds to death. “Saw that his strength was
deserting him, his claws Bound fast, Higlac's brave follower tearing at his
hands.”(line 464-466)
Beowulf's unusual and courageous method of killing Grendel
demonstrates his bravery and physical strength. Before, Unferth had taunted
Beowulf about his foolish bravery but when he and all the rest of the Geats
saw that Beowulf's strength and power were worth boasting about, they were
humbled. To prove Beowulf was powerful, he hung Grendel's arm, claw, .....
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Ceremonies In "The Waste Land"
Words: 1243 - Pages: 5.... evident in this passage. The last line of "He who was living is now dead" shows the passing of the primal ceremony; the connection to it that was once viable is now dead. The language used to describe the event is very rich and vivid: red, sweaty, stony. These words evoke an event that is without the cares of modern life- it is primal and hot. A couple of lines later Eliot talks of "red sullen faces sneer and snarl/ From doors of mudcracked houses" (ll. 344-345). These lines too seem to contain language that has a primal quality to it.
From the primal roots of ceremony Eliot shows us the contrast of broken ceremonies. Som .....
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Nature To Love Ones In Shakespeare's "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun" And "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?"
Words: 1135 - Pages: 5.... the writer sees the sun's rays it gives him joy. By saying that
his mistress' eyes do not look like the sun it means that when he looks at her
eyes she does not reflect happiness or joy. Her eyes do not shine like the sun.
The nature appears more powerful than humankind.
In the title of the poem "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?",
Shakespeare is debating whether or not his love one is worth being compare to a
summer day. Unlike the first poem, the poet does not know what the answer is
from the title or whether it is fair to compare nature to her. However, as the
reader read through the poem he gets an answer from the poet. Just th .....
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Ode To The West Wind Essay
Words: 1691 - Pages: 7.... such as "breath", "unseen presence", and "enchanter". At the end of the first stanza, the speaker again talks about the wind, as a celestial being when he describes the wind as a "Wild Spirit" and says this spirit is everywhere. He then comments on the power of the wind when he describes it as a "Destroyer and Preserver." He ends the first part in the fifth stanza with an apostrophe. The speaker speaks to the West Wind, and asks this higher force to listen to his plea.
The second section of the poem deals with the wind as being a power of the wind in the heavens. He begins the second section of the poem by saying that the wind is "'mid .....
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Beowulf: The One Who Will Be King
Words: 852 - Pages: 4.... students drink and dance in a college bar, witnessed "a healthy
ritual of joy from which we know he forever felt exiled". Shortly
thereafter, Bundy left the bar and traveled to the Chi Omega sorority
house where he watched from outside, entered, and then killed two girls and
wounded two others.
Just as Bundy had done, Grendel watched and surveyed from the
distance. He waited outside the great hall, listening to the mirth and
celebration from within. He hated them. The revelers inside felt no "misery
of men." They were not uninvited, outcast, and below the social class of
Hrothgar's company. These feelings of inadequacy propel Grendel to .....
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"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers": Women And Society
Words: 950 - Pages: 4.... 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 confidence by standing up to a group of the
most respected men in town, when she hears they might take her daughter,
Pearl, away from her. She even has the courage to demand the minister for
his help. "I will not give her up!" She .....
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