Ode to Nightingale Many aspects go into understanding the deeper meaning behind a romantic poem; figurative language and diction contribute to the underlying story that life seems immoral until death actually occurs or is caused. In the romantic poem‚ “Ode to Nightingale‚” by John Keats the use of figurative language adds to the readers’ comprehension of the poem. It allows readers to open their minds to what Keats is really trying to get across in his poem. In life some people have the desire
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ODE TO AUTUMN John Keats This poem‚ an ode‚ is the last of Keats’ odes. In it‚ the poet exhibits a rich mood of serenity by describing autumn as a season of mellow fruitfulness – a season of ripeness and fulfillment. This ode is known for its remarkable sensuous beauty that is crafted by employment of several visual‚ tactile and auditory imageries together with the personification of autumn as a woman engaged in various autumnal activities. In the first stanza‚ the poet has described the
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Kalie Juarez Dr. Ward ENGL 2312 19 February 2013 Ode to a Nightingale In “Ode to a Nightingale‚” the most evident characteristic of Romanticism is the feeling and emotion. This is portrayed since the beginning: “My heart aches‚ and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense‚ as though of hemlock I had drunk‚ / Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains” (lines 1-3). The speaker feels as though he has been poisoned or drugged since he can not see the nightingale. The birds’ song has this paralyzing effect
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Peace and Quietness? Solitude: The state of being or living alone. Seclusion. Every day of the week hundreds if not thousands of people see me‚ and that’s maybe an understatement. When I say‚ “hundreds if not thousands of people see me‚” I mean like‚ see as in the literal tense. Where my face is looked at‚ examined‚ judged‚ inspected‚ and or… just flat out seen by others. When I mentioned how “that’s maybe an understatement” well that’s true. Just my face‚ or anything physically noticeable about
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox fabricated an overall sensible tone using diction and dichotomy in her poem Solitude. Diction is defined as an author’s’ selection and utilization of words or phrases in speech or writing. Wilcox employs various words with assorted connotations. To elaborate‚ Wilcox describes the results of someone’s actions as if someone were to laugh‚ then “the world laughs with you; / weep‚ and you weep alone” (Wilcox 1-2). Wilcox selects phrases such as “laughs with you” and “you weep alone
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[themselves] to the estate in which [their] lot is cast.” Fatalism‚ often associated with predestination‚ is the belief that every event including all actions we as humans partake in are caused by outside forces beyond our control. In One Hundred Years of Solitude‚ Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses irony to reveal how preventing a prediction guarantees its fulfillment. Fatalism‚ as revealed in the novel‚ requires a state of peace of mind which can only be achieved when characters escape active emotional involvement
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suggest that John Keats writes about a typical day of this season‚ describing all kind of colourful and detailed images. But before commenting on the meaning of the poem‚ I will briefly talk about its structure‚ its type and its rhyme. The poem is an ode[1] that contains three stanzas‚ and each of these has eleven lines. With respect to its rhyme‚ To Autumn’ does not follow a perfect pattern. While the first stanza has an ABABCDEDCCE pattern (see the poem on the next page)‚ the second and the third
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The pleasures of solitude (by John Cheever) John Cheever (1912—1982) is a well known American storyteller. He started on his literary career at the age of 16. In his works Cheever deals with the complexities of the life of the middle class‚ the inhabitants of small towns and suburbs of big cities. THE PLEASURES OF SOLITUDE One evening when Ellen Goodrich had just returned from the office to her room in Chelsea‚ she heard a light knock on her door. She knew no one in the city intimately; there
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"Ode to the West Wind‚" Shelley invokes Zephyrus‚ the west wind‚ to free his "dead thoughts" and words‚ "as from an unextinguished hearth / Ashes and sparks" (63‚ 66-67)‚ in order to prophesy a renaissance among humanity‚ "to quicken a new birth" (64). This ode‚ one of a few personal lyrics published with his great verse drama‚ "Prometheus Unbound‚" identifies Shelley with his heroic‚ tormented Titan. By stealing fire from heaven‚ Prometheus enabled humanity to found civilization. In punishment‚
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