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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To this day‚ ballads are still enjoyed by some individuals; many generations ago they were at the very heart of amusement. Passed on orally‚ they centred such interesting subjects as tragic love. Typically‚ although ballads are fairly simple‚ in that they do not tend to focus on characterization‚ they have a rapid dialogue‚ and are usually in the form of quatrains‚ and rhyming in abcb. As a traditional ballad "Bonny Barbara Allan" employs these traditional qualities and conventions: it is written
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Compare and contrast how love is presented within the two poems “Ballad: ‘The spring returns‚ the pewit screams’ by John Clare and ‘A Broken Appointment’ by Thomas Hardy. Both poets express their loss of love within these two pieces although different in many ways there are some obvious similarities‚ which may be due to the attitude of the age. For example the attitude towards women and what was expected of them during a romance and the reaction when this role is not fulfilled. In the 2nd and
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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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Professor Ostrom English 340 29 October‚ 2007 The Landlord vs. Miss Gee Langston Hughes and W. H. Auden are two highly educated authors‚ who came from very different cultural backgrounds. Literary contemporaries‚ contemporaries in that they were both working writers during the same time period‚ Hughes and Auden are known for literary works which tackle both moral and political issues. Langston Hughes’s and W. H. Auden’s poems "Ballad of the Landlord" and "Miss Gee" exhibit each author’s ability to
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strong theme of racism. Poems such as "Ballad of the Landlord"‚ "I‚ Too"‚ and "Dinner Guest: Me" are some good examples of that theme. The "Ballad of the Landlord" addresses the issue of prejudice in the sense of race as well as class. The lines "My roof has sprung a leak. / Don’t you ’member I told you about it/ Way last week?" (Hughes 2/4) show the reader that the speaker‚ the tenant‚ is of a much lower class than his landlord. It also shows that the landlord could care less of what condition his
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