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The Fish By Elizabeth Bishop: Gone Fishin'

... "battered," "venerable," and "homely." The reader is sympathetic with the fish's situation, and can relate because everyone has been fishing. Next, Bishop compares the fish to familiar household objects: "here and there / his brown skin hung in strips / like ancient wallpaper, / and its pattern of darker brown / was like wallpaper;" she uses two similes with common objects to create sympathy for the captive. Bishop then goes on to clearly illustrate what she means by "wallpaper": "shapes like full-blown roses / stained and lost throu ...

Number of words: 935 | Number of pages: 4

Porphyrias Lover

... already involved with or married to another, richer man and is having an affair with this Lover. I think this because her lover says this: "She- Too weak for all her hearts endeavor, To set its struggling passion free From Pride, and vainer ties dissever, And give herself to me forever." I think this means that she is too egotistical to give up her easy and luxurious lifestyle for her Lover and after they make love she would happily return home to her husband, and leave her Lover alone. I think that although she does love her Lover sh ...

Number of words: 903 | Number of pages: 4

Analysis Of The Poem: The Fly

... part of the author. Few people would undertake such a detailed literal study of such a lowly creature. The end result, however, is an entertaining and unusual perspective on a universal enemy of mankind. The opening stanza sets the stage for the depiction of the fly in the rest of the poem. The first line, which begins describing the fly with "O hideous little bat, the size of snot," immediately introduces the atmosphere of what is to follow. The lines that follow describe a creature that is lowly and parasitic, yet well suited to the wor ...

Number of words: 633 | Number of pages: 3

Poetry: Not Me

... when watching TV. Pawning his studies to follow the game. Must be athletic instead of a weenie. For sports is the easiest road to one's fame. Well, easiest for some, though not for him. Though he never gave up, and gave it his all. He offered his best, and played always to win. Yet the harder he worked, the harder he'd fall. When his sports were done he had nothing to do. He had all of the time in the world. "Why not study?" said his mom, cooking the stew. ...

Number of words: 527 | Number of pages: 2

Poet's Use Of Mockery As Diction In Poem

... use of the words guzzling and gulping with their alliterative effect cause the reader to consider the majors as gluttons gathered at the table. When the reader completes his mental picture of the majors in the best hotel, the imagery of glory hogs is complete. The poet's diction choice, "Reading the Roll of Honor. `Poor young chap, ' I'd say - ` I used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap.' " of casual language attempts to make the war seem carefree and nonchalant. The word "chap" conveys an casual ...

Number of words: 382 | Number of pages: 2

The Fall Of The House Of Usher And The Cask Of Amontillado: Madness And Insanity

... character in the "The Fall of the House of Usher", Roderick Usher, yearns to free himself from his own mortality. Every aspect of his gloomy existence transpires in his house from which he never ventures forth. Roderick's altered appearance probably was caused by his insanity. He had once been an attractive man and "the character of his face had been at all times remarkable" (667). However, his appearance deteriorated over time. Roderick had changed so much that "[the narrator] doubted to whom [he] spoke" (667). The narrator notes various sy ...

Number of words: 406 | Number of pages: 2

"Gunpowder Plot" By Vernon Scannell

... children and woman running around shouting and screaming, with fireworks exploding and filling the night sky with bright coloured sparks. The second and more sinister meaning is that if war, when explosions devastate and the children running around screaming are running for their lives. That in war time these beautiful fireworks kill and injure people. The man in the poem was in a war and being around the antics on a Guy Falkes night bring back evil, unpleasant memories of war with people dying. Later in the poem we learn that th ...

Number of words: 582 | Number of pages: 3

Mother And Child In Sylvia Plath Poems

... each of three lines. It thus appears that Plath is using threes and sevens quite prolifically, as every stanza is either three or nine lines long (9 = 3²) and multiples of seven occur twice in the total number of stanzas in each poem. Three and seven both seem to have a particular significance in life. There are triunes in religion, (Father, Son, Holy Spirit,) science (energy, matter, ether,) spiritualism (mind, body, spirit,) and psychiatry (superconscious, conscious, subconscious) to name but a few, while nine is the number of mont ...

Number of words: 2030 | Number of pages: 8

Analysis Of Keat's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" And "On Seeing The Elgin Marbles"

... with delicacy and reserve. In the poem On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, the description of his experiences overflows with youth and excitement. But as the poem continues the writing is toned down to convey the most important and meaningful experience. Keats describes how after traveling in lands of gold, and seeing many great states and kingdoms, he never truly realized the wonders of these things until reading Chapman's translation of Homer. Crossing many western islands bards have sung about, he never was able to compr ...

Number of words: 482 | Number of pages: 2

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"

... about Edgar Allan Poe that she became confused about what to teach her students. As she began to research the author's life and literature, Martha discovered that a horrible injustice had occurred, and she became determined, like many others, "to set the record straight." "This mission" has lead to ten years of research and the creation of her web site, Precisely Poe. Martha is proud and pleased to be a part of the Poe Decoder, a continual project to dispel the myth surrounding Poe, the man and his literature. Summary of the story Sett ...

Number of words: 4194 | Number of pages: 16

Analysis Of The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam

... mind can come up with. Obviously, on one level, the poem can present itself in a fairly straightforward manner in the vein of CARPE DIEM. In the third stanza, the author writes, "'Open then the Door!/ You know how little while we have to stay,/ And, once departed, may return no more." There's several refrains to this throughout the poem, first in the seventh stanza: "Come, fill the cup. . ./ The Bird of Time has but a little way/ To flutter-and the bird is on the Wing." The entire ninth stanza describes the summer month "that brings the R ...

Number of words: 1449 | Number of pages: 6

Analysis Of Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind"

... the American Civil War, brought him international acclaim. The book's hero survives his own fear of conflict and cowardice to discover courage, humility and wisdom in this most confused situation of total confrontation. Many veterans of the American Civil War praised Stephen Crane for his uncanny image, to envision and replicate the essence of actual combat. Stephen who had not witnessed any warfare brilliantly accomplishes this in his book. Crane thereafter, got a real taste of combat, when he covered the Greco-Turkish War in 1897 and the S ...

Number of words: 1323 | Number of pages: 5

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