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State Of Mind Lost Love
1,152 wordsEdgar Allan Poe's The Raven, representing Poe's own crisis, is oddly moving and eye-catching to the reader. In his essay entitled The Philosophy of Composition, Poe reveals his purpose in writing The Raven and also describes the work of constructing the poem as being calculated in all aspects. Of all the distressing topics, Poe wished to use the one that was universally understood, death, specifically death involving a loved one. The tone seemingly represents a very painful state of mind, an int...
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Blind Man Main Character
872 wordsIn the story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, the main character, goes through a major personal transformation. At the beginning of the story, his opinions of others are filled with stereotypes, discrimination and prejudice. Through interaction with his wife's blind friend Robert, his attitude and outlook on life changes. Although at first he seemed afraid to associate with a blind man, Robert's outgoing personality left him with virtually no choice. During Robert's visit, he proved to be a normal...
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Sylvia Plath Poem Daddy
1,551 wordssylvia Plath, author of the confessional poem "Daddy, " uses many stylistic devices in the poem to develop a negative attitude towards men, namely her adulterous husband and absent father. "Daddy" uses metaphor, diction, allusion, irony, and imagery to produce a tone of hatred and digest at her relationships with both men. In lines 71 - 80, Plath's imagery brings closure to both the poem and any desire for the continuity of either relationship. Plath uses the image of a vampire to represent her ...
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Men Are Equal Point Of View
1,677 wordsAlthough these three poems are written by two very different authors, they both share a similarity in one aspect: they both confess to how the speakers truly look at their fathers. The first and second poems, "Daddy" and "Happy Father's Day, " by Patrick Middleton, confess to feelings of regret, self-hatred, forgiveness, and a hidden love. However, Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" expresses a morbid hatred and disgust towards the father figure in her poem. The confessional voice is evident in all three, b...
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Defined To Include Freedom Of Speech
2,566 wordsResolved: That colleges and universities have a moral obligation to prohibit the public expression of hate speech on their campuses. Alexander, Larry. BANNING HATE SPEECH AND THE STICKS AND STONES DEFENSE. Constitutional Commentary. Spring, 1996 In addressing this issue, I, like most of the scholars, shall take "hate speech" to mean epithets conventionally understood to be insulting references to characteristics such as race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and sexual preference. First...
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Rhyme Pattern Figurative Language
1,174 wordsWhen I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and the present My true account, lest he returning chide; "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly. Tho...
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Stopping By Woods Woods On A Snowy Evening
435 wordsClearly committing Frost to another stanza of interlocking rhymes rather than permitting him to conclude with a flourish, the draft of the last quatrain would have left the poem open-ended. But Frost wanted an ending that was definite in terms of technique yet ambiguous in terms of meaning. Twenty-eight years after writing "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, " he revealed his difficulty to Charles Madison: "I might confess the trade secret that I wrote the third line of the last stanza of Sto...
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Garden Of Eden Apple Picking
720 wordsIn the poem "After Apple Picking", Robert Frost uses many symbols to enhance the meaning of the poem. The apple in the poem could be symbolic of be said to be the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden was basically the beginning of everything earthly and heavenly, therefore repelling death. For you to understand the poem, you have to realize that for something to be dead, it must have been alive before. This may not be the central theme of the poem but Frost's symbolic use ...
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Family In The Red Convertible And Blues
917 wordsThe family unit has always been an integral part of every person's development. Naturally, the parental figure plays an overwhelming influence in the maturity of the child, but sibling interaction can be just as great. Often sibling rivalry, or alliance, outlines this connection as a person carves a path into social peer groups. This articulation of sibling influence can be understood by examining the short stories "The Red Convertible" by Louise Erdrich and "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin, bot...
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Dramatic Monologue Porphyrias Lover
1,029 wordsThe finest woks of Browning endeavor to explain the mechanics of human psychology. The motions of love, hate, passion, instinct, violence, desire, poverty, violence, and sex and sensuousness are raised from the dead in his poetry with a striking virility and some are even introduced with a remarkable brilliance. Thanks to the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, so many people living in such close quarters, poverty, violence, and sex became part of everyday life. The absence of family a...
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Listened With Heart Fit Sat By His Side Love
1,152 words... hat the rain would set in late at some other expected time. The feeling of hope that things might have worked the way love wanted them to! In the next line the use of sullen is actually the word that cements the fact that there are opposing forces working against love. Moreover the sheer potency that the force of wind represents shows the odds that the passion of love is up against. Even though the reader has no idea what the poem is going to bring but the mention of the force of wind is eno...
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Social Structures Three Times
1,082 words... ial restrictions on his love affair, and the subsequent limitations on Porphyria's love for him. Therefore, the speaker's distance from the world outside becomes also an inability to respond to Porphyria upon her entrance; he sits in the cottage wanting only her love, without need of explanation, so that when he is spoken to, "no voice replied" (15). Soon, Porphyria's gift of comforting warmth within the storm exacerbates his obsession to the point of insanity-driven violence. This is a very...
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William Blake A Poison Tree
691 wordsIn A Poison Tree, by William Blake is a central metaphor explains a truth of human nature. This poem teaches how anger can be dispelled by goodwill or nurtured to become a deadly poison. It is appropriate that poems touching on Biblical themes should be expressed like this in which a spiritual meaning is expressed in a vivid story. The opening stanza sets up everything for the entire poem, from the ending of anger with the friend, to the continuing anger with the foe. Blake startles the reader w...
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Robert Frost Nature In His Works
608 wordsAn Analysis of Nature in the works of Robert Frost When reading poetry by Robert Frost the theme of nature is strongly present and persistent. Robert Frost uses the world around him to create a mystic feeling to his writings, almost giving the reader a sense of nostalgia. The influence of nature in Frost's works creates a palette to paint a picture filled with symbolism for the reader to interpret. The nature in the poems makes the poem an intimate piece in which most readers can identify with o...
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Descent Into Irrationality Felt A Funeral Speaker's
462 wordsDaniel Harouni July 13, 2005 Revised-Essay I Felt a Funeral in My Brian "I felt a funeral in my brain" by Emily Dickinson traces the speaker's descent into madness. It is a terrifying poem for both the speaker and the reader. The speaker experiences the loss of self in the chaos of the unconscious, and the reader experiences the speaker's descending madness and the horror most of us feel about going crazy. Dickinson uses the metaphor of a funeral to represent the speaker's sense that a part of h...
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Gentle Into That Good Night Life And Death
566 wordsIn Thomas' 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, '; he depicts the inevitability of death through repetition and diction. Furthermore, he portrays the stages of man's life in his comparison to 'good men, 'wild men, '; and grave men. '; Finally, Thomas' medium of poetic expression presents itself in the villanelle. The villanelle's persona speaks in this poem as the son of a dying father. Line sixteen states 'And you, my father, & # 8230; '; and this proves the speaker's persona. The old ma...
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Amp Quot Iambic Pentameter
1,588 wordsIn order for a poem to be classified as a sonnet, it must meet certain structural requirements, and Sonnet 138, & quot; When my love swears that she is made of truth, & quot; is a perfect example. Shakespeare employs the traditional rhyme scheme of the English sonnet, the poem is made up of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet, and iambic pentameter is the predominant meter. However, it would be an error to approach this poem as a traditional Shakespearean love sonnet. It is a 'love' po...
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Facial Expressions Body Language
828 words1 Henry Roose Marion Feet Writing 151 6 December, 1996 The hardest skill to master in order to maintain a successful, loving relationship is communication. Being unable to express one's thoughts clearly and accurately is a heavy burden to bear when trying to hold a conversation. It often causes misunderstandings and unnecessary arguments. Plainly expressing one's thoughts is a lesson that many do not learn. The staggering number divorces in recent years may be the effect of ill-communication. Ev...
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Multi Faceted External Forces
615 wordscontrary, the speaker is losing his sanity as time progresses. In the past, perhaps, the speaker's rational thought processes allowed him to cope with failed romances. However, in the presence of this love for his dark mistress, all his logical mental abilities are overpowered. His rational mind, which he depends on for truth and sanity, has left him in the face of love. The torment of love has made it impossible for the speaker to make truthful, objective observations about his world ('Companio...
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Make Much Of Time Virgins To Make
768 wordsIn Andrew Marvell's poem "To his Coy Mistress", the speaker meditates on how cold, worm-ridden, and empty the grave is. While this decision might seem a poor choice for someone who is trying to convince his conquest to acquiesce, it does emphasize the importance of "seizing the day": We will all age then die. Our days, our youths, are short, and we do not have "word enough, and time" (line 1) to dawdle or wallow in indecision. The speaker pretends not to pay an attention to the fact that he and ...
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