vehicles for his attitude towards the passing of time are “A Leaf-Treader” and “The Road Not Taken”. Both explore the debate between transience and transcendence but display two differing outlooks on these. ‘The Road Not Taken’ seems to express regret for a path that the persona in the poem ‘could not travel’. The poem has a kind of haunting wistfulness about the transience of time and a sober tone of fatalism is very apparent. The indecisive and contemplative language of the persona of ‘the road’‚
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Themes and Values of the Beat Generation As Expressed in Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry Perhaps one of the most well known authors of the Beat Generation is a man we call Allen Ginsberg‚ who expresses the themes and values in his poetry. He was‚ in fact‚ the first Beat Writer to gain popular notice when he delivered a performance of his now famous poem‚ ±Howl°‚ in October of 1955. The Beat Generation is typically described as a vision‚ not an idea and being hard to define. It is characterized as ±a cultural
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1. Allegory (寓言)– The word derives from the Greek allegoria ( “speaking other-wise” ). It loosely describes any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. This fictional literary narrative acts as an extended metaphor in which persons‚ abstract ideas‚ or events represent not only themselves on the literal level‚ but also stand for something else on the symbolic level. An allegorical reading usually involves moral or spiritual concepts that may be more significant than the actual‚ literal
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The Interrogation Room shows the unethical interrogation of witnesses in a murder case at a birthday party that led to conviction of an innocent man. The murder took place in the parking area of the club in Brampton‚ Ontario. While Eric Morgan was celebrating his birthday party‚ Mike Spence was chased and shot by men in a vehicle. Three years later‚ six men with a gang related backgrounds were charged of the murder. But because of rumours‚ the birthday celebrant became the primary suspect. Witnesses
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Shelley’s poem is a melancholy meditation on the transience of youth and life’s happiness. This central idea is explicitly made obvious through different stylistic devices. To begin with‚ the theme is mainly built on contrast. The speaker’s sense of loss is in fact reinforced by a central thematic opposition between past happiness and present sadness. The vanished pleasures of the speaker’s youth are indeed contrasted to the difficulties and sadness of his present as an old man. Stanzas‚ too‚ are
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Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions. Open Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at http://collegebookshelf.net Contents Selected Poems. John Keats. John Keats. Selected Poems. Contents About the author John Keats (October 31‚ 1795 February 23‚ 1821) was one of the principal poets in the English Romantic movement. During his short life‚ his work was the subject of constant politically motivated critical attack‚ and it was not until much later that
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her work. This can be seen in “At Mornington”‚ a lyrical meditation which represents the maturation from the innocence and unthinking impulses of childhood‚ to the realities and reflective appreciation of adulthood‚ followed by the introspective transience of an individual’s physical existence on earth. Through the use of a multi-tense narration and text indentation‚ the poem represents the importance of unity within a person- a key theme in Harwood’s poetry‚ both spiritually and physically‚ and also
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ode‚ ceremonious poem on an occasion of public or private dignity in which personal emotion and general meditation are united. The Greek word ōdē‚ which has been accepted in most modern European languages‚ meant a choric song‚ usually accompanied by a dance. Alcman (7th century bc) originated the strophic arrangement of the ode‚ which is a rhythmic system composed of two or more lines repeated as a unit; and Stesichorus (7th–6th centuries bc) invented the triadic‚ or three-part‚ structure (strophic
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The narrator of this poem‚ which is written in two quatrains‚ describes a corner of the farmyard in which tall nettles cover old farm implements and suggests that he likes it because it is a reminder of mutability (liability to change) and the transience of life. The first stanza tells us that the nettles tower over the implements‚ except for the roller handle‚ as if they want to assert the supremacy of life and hide the fact that even things made from the most obdurate materials are subject to
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a sound. In terms of perception‚ they focus on space. For example‚ when they appreciate flower arrangement or bonsai‚ they recognize space as a part of works. Thus‚ they can enjoy nonexistent objects. In addition‚ Japanese people have a sense of transience. For example‚ they consider that flowers are beautiful because of their transient life. Thus‚ they think that they cannot notice beauty until the objects have an end‚ so they feel beauty in transient things. Therefore‚ Japanese people
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