PAPER Topics

... moon is omniscient. He further believes that the moon “can judge of love”, and can solve his love troubles, as a “ lozenge of love” (Sad Steps, line 11) would. Sir Philip Sidney's attitude toward the moon is quite serious, which is also the tone of the essay. He takes the moon very seriously, as if it were divine. He adds character to the moon, as if it were a person. He describes the moon's “love acquainted eyes” (line 5) and remarks how “wan a face” (line 2) it has. This imagery makes the moon more real and praiseworthy, for how can you admire a person without a face? The imagery adds a face to the moon for others to admire as does himself. Philip Larkin's attitude toward the moo ...

... of the albatross, his luck suddenly changes. His luck indeed seems to change, and the Mariner experiences the punishment that comes with the moral error of killing the Albatross-- isolation and alienation from everything but himself. Then, the "Nightmare," the life in death, kills his crew. He is lost at sea, left alone in the night to suffer, and he has detached from his natural cycle. The Mariner proclaims his misery when he says: "Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony." To the Mariner, nature has become foreign. This is a very low point in his spiritual journey. The Mariner then has a reversal of s ...

... the poem is the metaphor in which the beatings are described as a waltz. The poet is led around the house, dancing - not beaten around. Which is also brought throu by the meter - trecet iamb - the beat of the waltz, thus the main image is shown through the meter as well, giving the reader more of the feeling of a dance in contrast to the 'secondery images' which are more associated with the rough experiance of a beating. Given such parameters the poet installs some sort of relaxation in the reader ( maybe even in himself ), in order to make the subject - the beating - more readable, and lessening the effect of the drunkness and the beatings, making his father more human. By this dance met ...

... where he was secluded but still content because he was creating his own happiness. Soon into his pleasant fantasy, reality takes over. What has he accomplished or become? Why does he not have the same feelings he once had? Because “They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load” of his harsh life (14). His life of hard ships has erased all happiness in life. The line “From a twig’s having lashed across it open” (47) means something severely emotional has happened in the man’s life to cause him to harden. This event has led him to believe that his life is like a pathless wood. In other words his life has no means to an end, no purpose any longer. The last part of birche ...

... it?" This line from the poem says that the speaker is worried that he will not be called a man because he did not kill the snake. The speaker does not want to feel less than a man because he did not kill the snake, like all men are supposed to do. The third time he expresses this theme is when the speaker tries to hit the snake with a log. This is stated in the poem when it says, "I picked up a clumsy log and threw it at the water-trough with a clatter. This line from the poem says that the speaker listened to his feelings that he should kill the snake instead of listening to his education, so he tries to kill it. Then the snake leaves and the speaker knows that he will never see the ...

... adult who is simply observing the children from a detached outside viewpoint. For example, "almost I see the marvel they see" is informing the reader that he is "almost" caught up in the enchantment as the children are. McAvley's clever use of diction and imagery add to the enchantment of the merry-go-round as the children see it as a magical fantasy world. It is continually likened to another world. For example, the first stanza deals with the excitement and attraction of the merry-go-round with adjectives such as "bright-coloured" and "mirror-plated" to describe it. The use of personification, "prancing wooden horses", is deliberately used to suggest the horses are alive in this sur ...

... the speaker in this poem exemplified the voice of all people. She ‘could not stop for death’ as none of us really believe we can or that we have the time. Most people die unexpectedly and are not ready to stop everything they have and want to do just to cease living. By riding with death, she fools herself into thinking that she is not dead. She has found immortality by riding along with death. Death does not come quickly. Rather, it arrives with a menacing slowness. She has ridden with him and is now reflecting upon her well-lived years. In this sense, we all ride alongside death as it certainly does follow us everywhere we go. The “horse’s head”(23) refers to the carriage in w ...

... crying about his social ostracism in line two. In an attempt to clarify for himself why he is in such a state he “ troubles” heaven with his “bootless” or useless cries. But as the poet has made clear heaven turns a deaf ear and no response is forthcoming. Again he becomes introspective and curses his fate. This first quatrain has given us an image of a grown man “down and out” if you will, who is accepting no responsibility for his life's station. By the second quatrain the poet has taken to wishing he were more hopeful. He wants to be more popular with his peers and he desires the literary skill, “ art”, and intellectual prowess, “scope”, of other men. It is almost humorous to ...

... past, to continue to set her goals high and to open herself up to help from a higher being, which may be herself, her father, a mentor, or God, to help her achieve her goals. Booth is saying in this poem that the first lesson one needs to learn in life is that we must prepare ourselves for the future. In doing so, we must rely on a “higher being” for support, because we are not capable of surviving on our own. A baby, or very young child, must have its parents or caretakers guide them while they learn everything; to walk, talk, swim. A beginning student of academics and/or athletics needs a mentor; a teacher or a coach, to teach them as they learn a skill or technique. A human being need ...

... 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 just went over shows how he loves his animals, but it also shows how he is foreshadowing. How he love the animals as pals, but how he also loves to abuse the animals. He loves to inflict pain on the animals because that is the way he shows his love. By seeing others in pain, he feels guilty, but he likes feeling that way. Because he is a masochist. He also shows how he feels guilty for this observed behavior is he goes out and gets drunk for feeling this way. And he comes home and inflicts the pain on the things he love ...