Devon Sahid Humanities 101 September 26‚ 2011 October 24‚ 2011 Olds Poem In Sharon Olds The Summer-Camp Bus Pulls Away from the Curb she states “With a pencil and two Hardy Boys and a peanut butter sandwich and grapes he is on his way‚ there is nothing more we can do for him” the narrator is sending her son off with what she thinks he will need not only for summer camp but for life. She sends him away with two Hardy Boys books. This is relevant because the Hardy Boy characters are
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Dickinson’s poem “510: It was not Death‚ for I stood up‚” explores the uncertainties of Death. The speaker attempts to define or understand her own condition to unwrap the cause of her suffering. The use of extended metaphor is utilized as the speaker uses the term “death” and that her life and state of mind‚ to her‚ resembles nothing other than death itself. The dominant effect would be the feeling of despair as the speaker represents this by saying “As if my life were shaven‚ / and fitted to a
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death shall all the world subdew‚ Our love shall live‚ and later life renew." By Edmund Spencer The poem by Edmund Spenser is a poem of true love. What this poem is basically trying to describe is that when you love someone or something that love does not have to end. Love is eternal and in this case it will last into what the author believes to be heaven. The central purpose of this poem is to make one realize that our lives are not forever‚ our relationships are not forever‚ but love is. Love
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Summary of the Poem Stanza 1 .......Old men feel out of place in a land where everything heralds new life: young men with their nubile women‚ singing and cooing birds‚ spawning salmon and mackerel. Throughout the summer‚ animals and fish bring forth new generations. When life is busy reproducing itself‚ it neglects old men‚ whose bodies are nothing but monuments of what used to be--although their intellects do not age. Stanza 2 .......An old man is little more than wrinkled‚ drooping skin hanging
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Fulbright Scholars Where was it‚ in the Strand? A display Of news items‚ in photographs. For some reason I noticed it. A picture of that year’s intake Of Fulbright Scholars. Just arriving Or arrived. Or some of them. Were you among them? I studied it. Not too minutely‚ wondering Which of them I might meet. I remember that thought. Not Your face. No doubt I scanned particularly The girls. Maybe I noticed you. Maybe I weighed you up‚ feeling unlikely. Noted your long hair‚ loose waves
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William B Yeats (1865-1939) From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) Men improve with the Years I am worn out with dreams; A weather-worn‚ marble triton Among the streams; And all day long I look Upon this lady’s beauty As though I had found in book A pictured beauty‚ Pleased to have filled the eyes Or the discerning ears‚ Delighted to be but wise‚ For men improve with the years; And yet and yet Is this my dream‚ or the truth? O would that we had met When I had my burning youth; But
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This poem has a literal side and mythical side to it meaning. The literal side would just be that it is about two sisters with different aspects. The mythical side could be referring to the two sides of Persephone to show the connections between "shade and light". In the first stanza‚ it introduces the two sisters‚ different as dark and light. One sister is very happy while the other is awfully depressed. In the second‚ third‚ and last stanza‚ it talks about the aspects of the sister of the shade
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written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works — most of which were published posthumously — are "Dulce et Decorum Est"‚ "Insensibility"‚ "Anthem for Doomed Youth"‚ "Futility" and "Strange Meeting". Poem at a glance Anthem for Doomed Youth" is a well-known popular poem written by Wilfred Owen which incorporates the themes of the horror of war. It
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CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these Notes The poems: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sujata Bhatt‚ A Different History Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ Pied Beauty Allen Curnow‚ Continuum Edwin Muir‚ Horses Judith Wright‚ Hunting Snake Ted Hughes‚ Pike Christina Rossetti‚ A Birthday Dante Gabriel Rossetti‚ The Woodspurge Kevin Halligan‚ The Cockroach Margaret Atwood‚ The City Planners Boey Kim Cheng‚ The Planners Norman MacCaig‚ Summer Farm Elizabeth Brewster‚ Where I Come From 1 14 William Wordsworth
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Autumn” is one of the simplest of Keats’s odes. There is nothing confusing or complex in Keats’s paean to the season of autumn‚ with its fruitfulness‚ its flowers‚ and the song of its swallow gathering for migration. The extraordinary achievement of this poem lies in its ability to suggest‚ explore‚ and develop a rich abundance of themes without ever ruffling its calm‚ gentle‚ and lovely description of autumn. Where “Ode on Melancholy” presents itself as a strenuous heroic quest‚ “To Autumn” is concerned
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