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... 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 frozen, cracked landscapes, and the crack in the teacup are examples of lost, passed time. The verdant valleys shall always be sheathed in snow, they cannot resist; and the teacup, once cracked, cannot be mended. All that is left is the memory of that thing still whole, and even those fade with the unhalting passage of time. At the conclusion of the poem, the author refers to the passage of the lovers. They have succumbed as well to the ravages of time, and no amount of tears may bring them, nor anything else, back. Per ...

... 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--" Describing the feet as "mechanical" shows the agitation and displacement of the mourners. Also, in the next line, "Ought" most closely means "Emptiness." Dickenson artistically shows us how the mourners are dealing with their loss in this next passage: "A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Qu ...

... looking back, and sees how centuries have passed, yet she isn't passing by anymore, and to her this hundred years seems as no time at all. Finally she accepts her death, and is able to pass into eternity. To her death wasn't harsh like some see it, but a kindly, gentle soul, taking her for a carriage ride to her final home. A child experiences death much differently than an adult. Children aren't quite able to see death as the sad even that it is. "First Death in Nova Scotia" tells of a young boys death, and his cousins view of it. We are shown Arthur's death through the eyes of a child. The little girl, our narrator, describes the scene of her cousins funeral. Her focus however i ...

... at the words "oil-soaked", "oil-permeated" and "grease- impregnated". These words connect the [oi] in oily with the word following it and heighten the spreading of the sound. Moreover, when studying the [oi] atmosphere throughout the poem the [oi] in doily and embroidered seems to particularly stand out. The oozing of the grease in the filling station moves to each new stanza with the mention of these words: In the fourth stanza, "big dim doily", to the second last stanza, "why, oh why, the doily? /Embroidered" to the last stanza, "somebody embroidered the doily". Whereas the [oi] sound created an oily sound of language throughout the poem, the repetitive [ow] sound achieves a v ...

... a central objective: The reader must determine a final judgment of the speaker. In his dramatic monologues, Browning expresses his own convictions through the use of grotesque art. As the term implies, vile, rebuked, heartless, and failing human beings are presented in Browning’s glaring poems. “He often selects the eccentric, the morally deformed, the man with a grudge, a guilt, a secret or a crime to his credit. He chooses them for effect.”(Schmidt 380) Although these incongruous subjects seem abominable to the reader, their selection by Browning proves legitimate. “Browning is challenging the reader to appraise the value of the first-person narrative and to pronounce it and the s ...

... two children at the age of twelve and thirteen, how she struggled to regain her childhood but failed miserably. Now she just lives day by day thinking that there is no hope for her or her children. Blake saw the pain of this and yet he did not rejoice in its reality, but wept. “And the hapless soldiers sigh Runs in blood down the Palace walls” (lines 11-12). Yes. Explain how the truth of families unnecessarily loosing loved ones to war can cause a merry celebration. A war of hatred or greed that was not their war to begin with, but the war of governments that didn't quite get what they wanted out of a verbal agreement and needed the bloody LIBERTY of going into someone else's count ...

... of Matthew XXV, 14-30 where a servant of the lord buried his single talent instead of investing it. At the lord's return, he cast the servant into the "outer darkness" and deprived all he had. Hence, Milton devoted his life in writing; however, his blindness raped his God's gift away. A tremendous cloud casted over him and darkened his reality of life and the world. Like the servant, Milton was flung into the darkness. Line seven, "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" describes the limitations and burdens of a person who has lost his sense of place in life. Obviously, Milton is making a reference to his blindness in relation to line seven. Line seven implies that once the usef ...

... is too weak to give up this other man. I feel that Porphyria is definitely in love with him, but seems to be too weak to act seriously on her feelings. Porphyria traveled at night in a storm to meet her Lover which shows that she is certainly interested and devoted to him. I also think they are having an affair because the poem is called "Porphyria's Lover". It would explain why the relationship was so clandestine. Her Lover was not sure if Porphyria truly loved him. When he discovered that she did he killed her so they would always be together. Is the poem uttered by one speaker who is not the poet at a critical time? Yes. The poem has only one speaker who is not the poet. It is t ...

... imagery, and of course lines something that every poem has. I thought that the first and second line was very good visual imagery "written with a pen sealed with a kiss". It show how it really happened and was done. Through out the whole poems was a loved filled mood. Lines 13, 15, 16, and 19 all start with "I'll". Every words has something rhyming with it except the first and third line. Most of the rhyming is "you" and "true". This poems could be used for many metaphor. I have a personal metaphor. It is comparing my love to Nancy, to the poem as its self. The poems explain exactly how i feel about Nancy. i would be the guy who show his love to his girl. Making sure that she knew that ...

... in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. In the simplest terms possible, Shakespeare is saying that the woman of whom this poem speaks of is beautiful. But even more than that, the eloquence in which he expresses her beauty demonstrates that Shakespeare loves the woman he is addressing. In what seems almost a response to Shakespeare’s sonnet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a poem titled, “If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Naught”. If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love’s sake only. Do not say “I love her for her smile – her look – her way Of speaking ge ...