An effective short poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay‚ What Lips my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why‚ portrays the dissonance between ideal young love and aged heartbreak. Millay starts this theme by looking back on the affairs she has had and realizes she has aged‚ "What lips my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why‚ I have forgotten " (1-2). Then Millay explains how her past lovers continue to haunt her‚ " but the rain is full of ghosts tonight‚ that tap and sigh upon the glass and listen for
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“If it were done when ‘tis done‚ then ‘twere well it were done quickly. If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence‚ and catch‚ With his surcease‚ success‚ that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here‚ But here‚ upon this bank and shoal of time‚ We’ld jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgement here‚ that we but teach Bloody instructions‚ which‚ being taught‚ return To plague the inventor. This even-handed justice Commends the ingredience of
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Any poem respected by Edgar Allan Poe to the extent that he would include it in his personal explanation of poetry should be exceptional‚ but ’Bridge of Sighs’ by Thomas Hood is with certainty the best poem I have ever read. A reflective work‚ it tells the story of a young woman without a love in the world‚ but suggests there was a passion behind her dramatic suicide. The narrator blames the girl’s self-destruction on her being a fickle woman‚ ’One of Eve’s family’ (l. 27)and implies that her death
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Lady Macbeth is a central figure in Shakespeare’s play “ The Tragedy of Macbeth.” She is a controversial character of deep mystery and great ambition. In the essay‚ “Lady Macbeth: Infirm of Purpose” Joan Larsen Klein analyzes what was the role of woman during the Shakespearian times and how Lady Macbeth portrays or defies it. I think that Klein thesis is illustrated when she notes‚ “ Lady Macbeth‚ despite her attempt to unsex herself‚ is never able to separate herself completely from womankind-unlike
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1.Home ’s the place we head for in our sleep. 2. Boxcars stumbling north in dreams 3. don ’t wait for us. We catch them on the run. 4. The rails‚ old lacerations that we love‚ 5. shoot parallel across the face and break 6. just under Turtle Mountains. Riding scars 7. you can ’t get lost. Home is the place they cross. 8. The lame guard strikes a match and makes the dark 9. less tolerant. We watch through cracks in boards 10. as the land starts rolling‚ rolling till it hurts 11. to be here
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Within the conclusions of his Poetry analysis of Emily Dickenson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died‚” Kerry Michael Wood asserts that‚ “If ever a poem invited individual interpretation‚ this one does. It poses questions. It gives no answers… Is the fly invoked because flies tend to feast on dead flesh‚ or is it merely an ironical opposition to some glorious manifestation of Divinity…I hazard no opinions of my own.” Wood is correct in his stating that the poem provides many questions without offering
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Bryant was one of them. His poems are full of Romantic ideals such as the benevolence of Nature and the emphasis on emotion. Bryant is clearly a Romantic poet and his poems "Thanatopsis"� and "To a Waterfowl"� are clearly illustrations of this. Nature is a big part of both "Thanatopsis"� and "To a Waterfowl"�. In "Thanatopsis"�‚ Nature actually has a speaking part. The personified Nature teaches the reader to not fear death‚ but accept it as a part of life. Nature in this poem is very comforting
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“Thanatopsis” (Pg. 171) first written when Bryant was almost 17 Meaning: Thanatos (death) Opsis (seeing) - The title presents the poem as a way of looking at death. He added to the poem in 1821. His additions frame the poem and add an element of human comfort. “Thanatopsis” – Stanza 1 Questions 1. Bryant inverts the opening clause of the poem. Rephrase it without inversion. 2. What literary device is used in lines 4-8? 3. Who is the speaker? 4. What is the tone? 5. What images of death
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simpler than that? Suppose each person could choose what their heaven looks like and who was there. In the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven and in the poem “Thanatopsis”‚ there are two different views of heaven but a similar idea that all people will be there. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom and “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant there is the required nostalgia for the past and use of imagination to comprehend the idea of oversoul ‚but each story provides two distinct
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and light romanticism. One example of dark romanticism is The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. Conversely‚ Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant is an example of light romanticism. Light and dark romanticism both present the elements of romanticism‚ however they do it in different ways. Light romantics‚ like William Cullen Bryant‚ believe in the good of nature‚ spirituality and humanity. In Thanatopsis‚ the voice of Nature says‚ “Earth‚ that nourished thee‚ shall claim/ Thy growth‚ to be resolved to earth
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