The form of " Out Out" also contributes to the feeling of inevitability and the inexorable forward movement of life, even after death. Robert Frost uses these techniques to paint a poignant and tragic portrait of a boy whose life is cut short, and the people who are left behind as a result.
Caged Bird analysisIn the poem Caged Bird by Maya Angelou, we can see that the themes are the lack of freedom, but also the hope for it. The poem is structured by six stanzas, each one talking about the life of the free bird, or of the caged bird.
Shows the variable in which fig 1 is trying to be used to improve it This study aims to identify the utilization of educational technology in enhancing core subject learning in K-12 classrooms. This study is about the use of technology in learning in K-12 and if it really does help and give better learning →
The moment Odysseus sounds the string of the bow, Zeus sends a thunderbolt crashing across the sky just as the suitors are in disbelief that Odysseus strung the bow and shot an arrow through 12 axes. Zeus changed the outcome of Odysseus's life as he disapproved of his negative actions and poor leadership.
Hughes' poem combines the rhythm of life, the sounds of the night and heartache, to give the reader a beautiful, sad picture of life on Lenox Avenue in 1926". The poem states, " The rhythm of life/ Is a jazz rhythm," This refers to all the music that was played along Lenox Avenue at clubs →
In The Trees, Larkin uses metaphor and in The Trees are Down, Mew uses tone and allusion, but both poets utilize symbolism, format, meter and repetition to evoke contrasting messages; Larkin's being that the cycle of life is set and cannot be changed while Mew's emphasizes the message that the destruction of nature can be →
For example, in the fourth line, the poet stated that " in that rich earth a richer dust concealed". This implies that the poet believed that when he dies in foreign land, his dust would enrich the soil because it will have a piece of England.
ANWR This is a classic poem which deals with the phenomenon of the outback and being caught without gas in the middle of nowhere. This is a great poem which demonstrates the full force of Sherwin Bitsui's writing.
Also, the description of Cinderella looking as Al Jolson and the ball from which the prince was to make a choice of the wife as a "marriage market" is sarcastic and amusing. The use of imagery in the poem is dominant where a reader is left with a virtual scene of the act.
The poem portrays men and women as more concerned with social status, material values and physical beauty than the development of the spirit or of the character, Pope suggests former is the morally wrong part and criticises his character for the vanity and lack of morality. The playing of the game and the use of →
According to the text, which could also be referred to as a poem, the meaning of life is to find enlightenment, ultimate knowledge of the universe, and inner peace. All beings and things are essential to his energy, and once one realizes this, devoting themselves to the circle of this energy and god is much →
Then there is the more difficult path:" And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear" This path represents the more difficult paths or obstacles that we meet in life the path that only a few people choose because the way is hard to figure out and is difficult to go →
This poem, or song, is about the Stolen Generation, and the repercussions that it had on the children that experienced that event. Son of Mine is a short and straight to the point poem on the experiences that the Aboriginal people went through while fighting the Europeans.
The reader always knows what to expect because of the gods' explicit prophecies as well as the behaviors of the mortals. In The Iliad, the removal of the helmet is equated with vulnerability.
It is initially a very straightforward and simplistic poem, where the speaker expresses the willingness of youth to disregard the advice of the wise elder, who appeals to the youth to freely give away materialistic possessions, such as money, pearls and rubies, but to give a long and hard thought as to whom he is →
William Shakespeare's highly acclaimed drama Romeo and Juliet is the story of two lovers against fate who by their death end the quarrels between their families, the Montague's and the Capulet. One of the forms in which confusion is presented is in the form of oxymorons.
In the third stanza the soldier tell us that he is looking for an answer for killing this man. He want to convince himself that the other man is his enemy he really does not want to kill any one.
This contrast between both of God's creations is an example of the symmetry mentioned in the first stanza and is an attempt to explain the necessity of equilibrium in the universe, letting the reader contemplate that without the existence of one extreme, the dangerous tiger, the other extreme, the gentle lamb, cannot exist. William Blake's →
Only the timeless moment of the slow dance exists and even ".the stars in the sky are dead." This moment where " my body is talking to your body slow dance." The slow dance brings fantasy, pleasure and " It's a little like cheating." We have all made mistakes of course, yet Dickman assures us →
Through the poem " Invictus", symbolism improving the images and feelings depicted by the poet, are used to emphasize not surrendering to fear; however in the poem " A Hymn to God the Father" ambiguous symbols are used to focus on the speaker's fear of dying before being forgiven for all his sins. Night is →
Not only is the experienced magnified by the combination of the two, it is impossible to later look at the photograph without hearing the water, or hearing the water and not envisioning the stream. We must speculate on how she is seated and the actions of her other hand.
The extract explains broadly that the Nile River is significant both to the human and to the natural lives. This explains the importance of this river in the environment, such as the vegetations that get the water supply from the banks of the river.
There is personification in this verse " Valley of death" this is a good because it suggests to us that the Light Brigade are going to lose their lives in the valley few of them will survive the battle. Alfred is saying that the Light Brigade was brave to fight in the battle in the →
The purpose of the extended metaphor in the poem was to bring to the attention of the reader this theme. The beginning of the poem describes the speaker listening to the lecture and he is not satisfied with the way the astronomer talks about space.
The ugliness of the anti-colonial movement as contributed by both sides of the divide provides a dilemma of sorts to the speaker. This poem represents the universal ugliness of war which causes a division of loyalties for the persona who is torn in between supporting the African uprising or the British colonialists against a background →
The poem " The Red Wheelbarrow" is probably among the shortest poems in American literature. The speaker of the poem is the poet himself.
The former introduces a woman narrator who appears to go on a journey with a gentleman, only revealing to the reader near the end of the piece that the man is Death and that the woman has been dead for some time. This is described in the poem as, " The Cornice in the Ground" →
In the Odyssey there are a few instances in which the law of Xenia is broken, quite a few of those belong in book nine of the Odyssey, in which Odysseus and his men are lured into a Cyclops' cave in which the owner, Polypheus, is angered and does not care about the law of →
Milton is keen to emphasize the heroic aspects of the character by drawing Satan as a military commander and justifying Satan's revolt as one that was necessary against an unfeeling and punishing God. While Milton praises the efforts of the soldiers in this rebellion, he makes it clear that the true force to be reckoned →
Have for most of us, and he found the same kind of intense significance in their manifestations of beauty that we find in the beauty of human belongs or of great works of art. The nature of this significance, he could not explain; but he could express it with enormous power in his art, →
The complex attitude of the speaker in For That He Looked Not upon Her using his form, diction and imagery to evoke the audience to question his enchantress. The title of the work For That He Looked Not upon Her gives a lot of suggestion about the meaning of the →
The poem " Horse" is a narration f the life of a horse with a connection to the life of Mexicans into the hands of Americans. The buyer of the horse did not describe in the poem but it represents the Americans because of the green money that was paid to the seller.
Milton's theology is different in that it forces the reader to think more critically about the character of Satan, and how he fits in with the story of the fortunate fall. Man is one of God's original and prized creations, but is also much weaker than any of the fallen angels. Satan is unique in →
In contrast, Odysseus's position as an Ithacan king affords his status and family a stability that prompts his unyielding belief in their continued immutability. Throughout the majority of his life, the institution of slavery prevented H from experiencing the kinds of family ties and pride in a community that define a true home. For Odysseus, →
Following The Rape of the Lock, Popes efforts were directed toward a mode of composition with which he is not usually identified: the elegiac verses Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady and the romantic psychodrama, Eloisa to Abelard. Here the couplet is used not only ironically to counterpose discordant images, as →
There was once a time that if a digital designer wanted to illustrate a story that was comparably epic to that of Homer's " Iliad and the Odyssey", to tell a tale of historic grandeur that feels as if it were translated from ancient Roman literature itself. Since then, it went from a typeface →
I believe that the " twinkle of a fading star," as Eliot mentions in line 44, that exists in that world is a symbol of the dreams and hopes from within because of which life truly becomes worth living. Eliot makes use of significant outright imagery, such as the desert, in order to express the →
Vertical Diagram for the book Ephesians Chapter 2 1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work →
The images of gold and silk allude to royalty and the reader immediately realizes that her love is priceless. The structure of the poem is similar to that of a hymn that focuses on love. The use of similes in stanza one reinforces the idea that the love the speaker is feeling marks the start →
Two major works of literature, ' Oedipus the king' and ' The Odyssey', provide some of the best examples of how the role of female characters is portrayed in different ways and how these women influence the fate of heroes. The purpose of this paper is to review the portrayal of women and feminine influence →
Presentation and Analysis of two poems ' I wandered lonely as a cloud' by William Wordsworth and ' Sailing' by the writer of this essay Reflections on the nature, tradition and reception of poetry as formed upon the readings of William Wordsworth's ' Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads' and T.S. The →
Lawrence although very often expresses his life experiences in his writings." Self Pity" is a very short poem but beyond the line Lawrence is telling a story. In " Self Pity" Lawrence is creating an image of a wild thing feeling sorry for itself. Lawrence stimulates the reader's thinking process." If never saw a wild →
Although food is positively associated with the Greek tradition of hospitality, Homer uses it in a negative sense in The Odyssey to represent the gluttony, lack of self-control, and lack of civility found in various characters. Upon docking their ship on the island of the Lotus-eaters, Odysseus' men engage in a gluttonous feast of lotus →
The Inferno is considered to be the most important part of the poem because it provides the description of hell. They are the main hero of the poem and his guide in the hell.
However, the background is different: one is dying and the other's already dead. In the poem The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, Jarrell said, " When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose". Death is an extremely major issue of one's live. On the contrary, he wanted to terminate →
Emily Dickinson's " Success is Counted Sweetest" has been penned in iambic trimeter with the exception of the first two lines of the second stanza. The act of victory in such a stance of winning a battle is limited to the act of taking away a flag.
On the other hand, the poem, Harlem, by Langston Hughes depicts an African American who seems disillusioned by the state of national affairs and the waning of hope for a better life. In this critical analysis of the two literature works, I seek to assess the viability of how people respond when society tries bringing →
In addition to establishing the poem's verisimilitude, the imagery of a cabin surrounded by bean stalks begins to convey the sense of peace and tranquility which Yeats attributes to nature. Here, Yeats explicitly associates peace with the auditory image of a cricket's chirping so as to deepen the connection in the reader's mind between peacefulness →
By employing the use of intoxicating tone, varying diction and metaphors, Roethke alludes to his violent relationship with his father. In " My Papa's Waltz", Roethke's tone is obscure; he speaks utilizing a type of style similar to that of a lullaby, every other line ends in a rhyme." The whiskey on your breath... Nevertheless, →
Victor has the dream of bringing life into a creature. The thirst for power has poisoned and destroy everything he cherishes in life when he has lost his loved ones and his will to live.
The strong character traits of the main characters Odyssey and Job in the epic The Odyssey and The Story of Job help develop their plots from the beginning to the rise of conflict and their resolutions. In his pursuit of litigation, he wants God to intervene on his behalf. In both, the Greek Gods →
The women are seen as nothing but trophies for the dauntless works of men, but the roles that they depict play a crucial role in the development of the plot and storyline. In the Iliad, women are written with little thought put into the character, and they are thrown into the story merely for the →
One of the women in the story, Penelope, was portrayed as very wise but because of her gender she was expected to obey many of the men. In contrast to the other two women, Melantho was very malicious and was treated similarly to the men in the end of the book. To begin, Penelope →
The flames of glory, appealing to force and a desire for immortality, fuel the heroes Hector and Achilles of Homer's The Iliad. The two warriors, fused into one persona, epitomize the " Homeric hero" at the center of the epic The Iliad. Foremost a fighter, the Homeric hero embodies the beauty of force, which, according →
The Martian in the poem does this because he has a conceptual viewpoint. The first time we see a metaphor is in the first line, " Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings".I interpreted this as somebody must have pointed at a book and called it a Claxton, or just referred to it as →
Like their European counterparts, the English Romantics reacted at first favorably to the French Revolution and saw their own cultural and literary program as revolutionary. William Wordsworth is the poet most closely associated with the Romantic Movement, and his lyrics ' Lyrical Ballads' published jointly with Coleridge in 1798, articulates some of the →
The speaker in Suicide Note uses much symbolism to try to express the extent of her sorrow; additionally, she articulates her own feelings of inadequacy while at the same time delicately portraying the futility of the entire situation. The very first simile in the poem, ? ink smeared like birdprints in snow.? →
This brings out the subject of the poem that the hawk is an idealistic [W2]and arrogant creature, suggesting that is Hughes is trying to challenges our perspective of being a human. As humans, many of us believe that we are the supreme beings in the entire world, that this world was created by God solely →
The emotion of resignation is felt throughout; like dust, rust, and formal work that is " Consecutive and slow," the poem appears to depict " crumbling" as something that happens so slowly and methodically that it cannot be avoided. The last two lines, " Fail in an instant, no man did/ Slipping is Crash's law" →
This is Icarus and he is almost as difficult to find within the painting as Waldo in a " Where's Waldo" book. Though Icarus is the only identifiable figure depicted in the painting, he is not given a place of visual prominence or attached importance. None of the men in the painting seem to notice →
The paper will also highlight the themes addressed in the poems, use of symbolism, and the message of the poem. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiography of Maya Angelou that he uses to explore various themes of racism, rape, literacy and identity. Maya uses his autobiography to →
The idea of immortality has existed through the ages, from the ancient Egyptian's views on the afterlife and rebirth, all the way through to the Common Era with the Christian belief of eternal existence within heaven or hell. The video documentary, The Odyssey, explains the legend of The Odyssey as written by Homer regarding →
The lack of clear lines and rhythm keeps the reader off balance, which befits the unsettling and confrontational nature of the poem. At its heart, the poem is about the couple, and how they behave and interact with each other given certain contexts a very human and modernist outlook. The man, instead of being sad →
The mysterious " it" she is referring to is not truly uncovered to the reader until later in the poem but as it continues it becomes obvious that the speaker is discussing her attempted suicide. In keeping with the rest of the poem, she is determined to be in control to fall when she wants →
Her father was Lyman Beechen, born in 1775, who was determined to have a powerful role in the shaping of the new republic. In 1856, Stows published her second anti-slavery novel, " Drew, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp," and then went on with a third, " The Minister's Wooing." Harriet Beechen Stows was →
The speaker of the poem titled " A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman is Walt Whitman himself. In this case, Whitman is observing the life of a spider.
Comparing and contrasting the characteristics of Odysseus, the main character in The Odyssey, an Epic Poem taking place in ancient Greek culture, and Percy Jackson, the main character in the novel The Lightning Thief, likenesses and differences within their character traits are easily able to be recognized. Odysseus and Percy shared the characteristics of loyalty →
In Fire and Ice Robert Frost uses the elements of fire and ice very symbolically. While he could be speaking literally of the destruction of the world by fire or ice, I believe he using the two elements to describe the two types of people in this world.
Therefore the uncertainty is the obsticle of hardship of his journey. Furthermore in the movie, The Wizard of Oz we distinguish Dorothy and Toto embarking on their journey. In relation to ' The Road Not Taken' and ' The Wizard of Oz' both texts, illustrate solitude, hardship, beyond the unknown and the uncertainty of choice. →
The hellish setting of the " Meatworks" is vicariously exemplified in thesynaesthesia of " the hot, fertilizer-thick, sticky stench of blood," denouncingthe industrial indifference to scruple shown in the degenerated standards, facilitating the confronting discovery of humanity's culpability. Graycriticizes the consumerism of the late 20th century as he delineatesthe extent of Australia's flourishing consumerism and →
This entails that mortals are the Greek gods' " puppets", any mortal that fails to follow the Greek Ethos may be eternally punished. Choice and fate both play a part in The Odyssey, but essentially it comes down to the choices that the characters make. This is implying that the Kyklops is asking Poseidon to →
This is consistently shown as a facet of Achilles' complex character in the Iliad, and it makes it possible for the reader to fathom his utter brutality with Lycaon. That is the role of the hero in a situation such as that.
These two lines reveal the good in the woman, as in ' pleasing' and the disadvantage of the woman as in ' short lived' and ' too soft.' This is the exact picture painted in the rest of the poem where being woman is limiting and the good of it is coated in ugly prejudice. →
Odysseus practices the art of storytelling in order to fulfill his image of a courageous hero once he arrives at home. Odysseus' confidence allows for his audience to be captured by his story. As a hero, Odysseus has the responsibility to assure Penelope that the reason he has not been home is for good cause →
Otto Plath died of gangrene when Sylvia was eight, which could have possibly been avoided by prompt treatment for diabetes and admission of the reality of his condition to his family. When Sylvia later writes in " Daddy:" Daddy, I have had to kill you. You →
The contrasting ideas of obedience in the two books is important and relevant for the reader today in the light that Genesis has become the cornerstone for a major world religion while the Iliad has remained only at the epic poetry level. In both Genesis and the Iliad the lack of foresight by those who →
Both poems also give rise to the definition of the true American Dream is, since both a wealthy person in " Richard Cory" and a suburbanite in " In the Suburbs" seem to be unhappy with their lives. The poets' representations of a suburbanite and a rich man defy the classic view that achieving success →
The poem's use of personification, together with a marked shift in tone and rhythm, provide an especially chilling presentation of man's powerlessness in the face of death's random schedule. In the poem, death is portrayed as a gentlemanly suitor, who collects the speaker for a carriage ride, and sets her down in " Eternity". →
Due to the minor key the notes are played in, the listener would not be happy about it, either, as it gives a sinister edge to the notes. The basic structure of the song is maintained by the acoustic guitar and bass. This helps acclimate the listener with the idea of the guitar as one →
Thus, instead of the " passing bells" that would accompany a church service, these soldiers are buried to the sounds of " the monstrous anger of the guns" and " the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle" where the alliteration gives the phrases an onomatopoeic quality. The poem gives us a →
The fantasy tone of this lyric with serve to give the readers a comprehension of the speaker's encounters inside the sonnet and the impact the events in the ballad had on him. Be that as it may, underneath this happy tone is a tone increasingly dismal, and Poe utilizes certain words and expressions that give →
The speaker notes the physical attributes of the city, which can be compared to a man: Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders". The city is personified as a hard-working and proud blue collar worker who may have to resort to underhanded dealings in order to survive. However, →
The authenticated methods that will be a review in this research will be exposition the rising action of the problem or the conflict, as well as the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. Through analyzing the various literal elements in two stories the climax to show the high point of tension that points out →
The 'it' to which she is referring is her attempt to kill herself. Although she sounds critical of their interest in the sensational aspect of her attempted suicide and the emotional pain it reveals, she also seems to welcome it as she says, " It's the theatrical / Comeback in broad day / To the →
Shelly and Keats use the ode form and other elements of Romantic poetry to develop themes and intuition into life and human nature. In John Keats' poem, The Ode to A Nightingale, the audience is first introduced to a disoriented, sorrow stricken speaker who yearns to listen to the Nightingale's euphoric song. Speakers in both →
The use of an egret for the bird that the boy kills is very apt, as it reminds the reader already of the word " regret"; it becomes a symbol for that regret the boy has in killing it and disobeying his father. In a way, the egret and the boy are connected by this →
The poems in this series depict how the women in the late 60's were able to live their life and how they were able to survive in life even after the horrific experiences. The author used this word to describe women nature and her demands in her real life.
Milton also presents Hell through Satan and his speeches, the first reference Satan makes to Hell is when he contrasts it with Heaven, the ' happy fields' of Heaven and the ' infernal world' of Hell. Throughout Book One of Paradise Lost Hell is presented as a physical place but Satan also portrays it as →
He is recounting the fall of Satan, and focuses on the battles that take place between the angels and rebel angels. In the beginning of the Book, dawn breaks over the landscape of Heaven as the angel Abdiel makes his way to God and his faithful legions.
Let us first analyze the personality of the mother, the Chippewa woman that the poet had reiterated. Right from the start, it was clear that the mother was alone and had no one to depend on but herself." Far from the Fort and far from the hunters, a Chippewa woman with her
The two poems which are basically a summary of the lives of two characters are laden with significant differences in terms of the symbols used, the themes and the character traits of their characters. Richard Cory was seen has having an admirable life and it was very improbable of him →
The paper seeks to explore both the differences and similarities in the theme of both works as well as their styles, usage of language and characterization. In both Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf, the titular heroes seek revenge. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the character of Sir Gawain bears a →
The students are a central, indispensible part of teaching and learning, and a good teacher knows her students strengths, weaknesses, and limits and works together with them to help them learn and grow. Her enthusiasm and dedication, coupled with her focus on the commonplace of the student, contributes to her success as an engaging teacher.
A Comparison Of The Poems " Beauty And Sadness" and " The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower Good poetry is usually written in sensual language to stimulate the readers' senses; " Beauty and Sadness" and " The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower," are poems that →
In the poem, Sandburg creates a portrait of an extremely powerful woman in the first verse that states as follows: " A woman whose ribs had the power of the hills in them and her hands were tough for work and there was passion for life in her womb". As stated by Hill , the year →
Not only is this a fantastic use of imagery, but the line also introduces metaphorical elements which the poet uses to tie into the central theme. The speaker's use of simile throughout the poem is a way for the poet to emphasize the suffering of the men, and enable the reader to connect with the →