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Analysis Of Robinson's "Mr. Flood's Party"

... according to Webster's New College Dictionary means, “a place where person can live away from other people; secluded retreat.(p. 632) Mr. Flood is secluded, his friends have all passed on. They have grown old and left Eben to fin for himself. The word choice that Mr. Robinson uses adds a lot to this peice of literature. When he talks about the bitter cold, he tries to stress the meaning of old age. Readers then relate cold to wanting to curl up and do nothing. The same an elderly man would do because his options are limited do to age. ...

Number of words: 948 | Number of pages: 4

Essay Interpreting "One Art" By Elizabeth Bishop

... the speaker addresses her beloved "you," and then in the last line, herself. Language in "One Art" is simple, yet many literary devices are used. The last line repeated, to the effect of "The art of losing isn't hard to master" suggests that the speaker is trying to convince herself that losing things is not hard and she should not worry. Also, the speaker uses hyperboles when describing in the fifth tercet that she lost "two cities...some realms I owned." Since she could not own, much less lose a realm, the speaker seems to be comparing ...

Number of words: 364 | Number of pages: 2

Ozymandias

... to those who read it. The tone of "" is one of lamentation, a sorrow that a statue proclaiming as the greatest king the world has ever known is now reduced to rubble; and not just the physical aspect but the glory of the king is also long forgotten. In Shelley's "",there are two speakers; the first speaker introduced the poem for the first line and then the second speaker carries the poem to realization. It is ironic that the words inscribed on the pedestal "Look on my works. . . and despair!" reflect the evidence of the next line, "Nothin ...

Number of words: 630 | Number of pages: 3

Maya Angelou's “No Loser No Weeper”

... of negative things in her life: the Great De-pression, her parents’ deaths, racism, being raped at age eight, becoming an unwed mother at age sixteen, and soured marriages(Brown 25). This period in Angelou’s life constitutes much of the contents in her poems including “No Loser No Weeper”. In, this poem Angelou describes how she “just hate[s] to lose some-thing”(Angelou 12). Moreover,this poem is directed towards a female; whom Angelou wanted to make clear to her to avoid touching her “lover-boy”(Angelou 12).Furthermore, when s ...

Number of words: 705 | Number of pages: 3

To Autumn By John Keats

... its details, and it is profound and civilized. In the first stanza, sound of line makes the image bulge softly in the language as the fruits itself. The first line states that “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” recalls the cold of the mists as well as the mellowness of the season of harvest (line 1). In the line five, “The mossed cottage-trees,” sounds like the scrunch of teeth through an apple releasing the sharp flow of juice (line 5). The next line curves with the lushness of “swell the ground,” but any excess is chec ...

Number of words: 854 | Number of pages: 4

A Critical Analysis Of "The Parting" By Michael Drayton

... 14 lines. This forces the author to distill his thoughts and feelings into as compact a form as possible. This distillation process means that the waffle that would have filled up a piece of prose has to be cut, and leaves a much clearer, less cluttered version of his feelings. Often, he has to sum up in one line of the poem what he would normally have written a paragraph or more on. For example, "Shake hands forever, cancle all our vows" sums up very concisely the idea of the break being forever, with no possibility of a reconciliation, whi ...

Number of words: 861 | Number of pages: 4

A Duke's Dominance Dooms Duchess

... the control men desired over their wives during this time period. The duchess, being inferior, is permited to ride a mule instead of a thourough bred; however, she must go no further than the terrace out back. The duke immediately draws attention to a fresco of his former wife. He has a new appreciation for the work since her passing. He likes her better this way; in his complete control. The designer was a monk who perfectly captured her heartfelt expression in but one day, showcasing her for all eternity. He directs his guest to ...

Number of words: 882 | Number of pages: 4

Beowulf: Character Analysis

... he opened himself up to greater glorification. Beowulf's strength could not be seen as a disadvantage, while the results of his strength could. Beowulf's strength allowed him dominance in battle, but it also made him cocky. While his cockiness allowed Beowulf to be sure of himself in battle, some of his peers found it to be a character flaw. Ecglaf, in particular, saw Beowulf as cocky and vain, questioning, "Are you the Beowulf who competed with Breca...swollen with vanity..." So, while his cockiness was a flaw in the eyes of others, Beo ...

Number of words: 587 | Number of pages: 3

Nature Imagery In Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems"

... Rich an outlet to represent a sense of belonging (or, rootedness), the water quite differently pertains to the psyche's capability to subdue traumatic events. I would like to start analyzing these images of nature by looking at Rich's belief of what poetry is supposed to do? She suggests that A poem can't free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites buried under the accumulating emergencies of our lives, the fabricated wants and needs we have had urged on us, have accepted as our own. It's not ...

Number of words: 2002 | Number of pages: 8

By Means Of Power

... she immediately stresses the importance of putting your child before yourself. This is a metaphor for putting the needs of what is truly important before the needs of oneself. It is not only stated simply and bluntly, but the way the lines are broken up accent the idea. "Ready to kill"(3) is on its own line, while "yourself"(4) is on the next. This is the theme that is running throughout the entire poem. In the next section of Lordes poem she describes a dreamlike situation. This is where her son has been shot, probably in ...

Number of words: 784 | Number of pages: 3

Tempting Fruits: A Comparative Analysis Of Alicante And This Is Just To Say

... it is more logical in these poems that the personas are men. Let us take a look at Alicante first. The orange remained on the table. It was not eaten. It was a present of the present. It was a present of the woman the persona had on his bed. The woman was the persona’s present. It is not clear if they already had sexual relations but the woman was naked and in his bed. The last two lines were contradictory. Coolness and warmth were mentioned together. The same object, the orange, was the coolness of the night yet was the warmth of the perso ...

Number of words: 597 | Number of pages: 3

Matrix: A Man's Feelings

... to the joints, / but its stumps were hard" (10-12). He asks the turtle knowing it is not going to answer him," How did you survive" (13) He picks up the turtle to comfort it, but the turtle goes back into its shell to hide from him. He uses his experiences with the turtle to compare it to his wife's sickness. His wife, who is a middle-aged woman, is having a hard time getting over losing one of her breast due to an operation. It also seems that she feels she might die. His wife is not comfortable with the way she looks and she shies a way from ...

Number of words: 512 | Number of pages: 2

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