The phrase is repeated five times throughout the poem. The title shows the ironic tone of the poem‚ because it is very hard to imagine kindness in war. The beginning stanza confirms the tone while it addresses the lover of a soldier who has died in battle. The author tells the lover not to leave her soldier at death. Followed by an overdramatic image of death‚ with the dying soldier throwing his " wild hands towards the sky dictand the affrighted running on alone." Also‚ Crane uses imagery‚ “to
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The Lady Or The Tiger? In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king‚ whose ideas‚ though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors‚ were still large‚ florid‚ and untrammeled‚ as became the half of him which was barbaric. He was a man of exuberant fancy‚ and‚ withal‚ of an authority so irresistible that‚ at his will‚ he turned his varied fancies into facts. He was greatly given to self-communing‚ and‚ when he and himself agreed upon anything‚
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4350 September 26‚ 2011 The Pain of Love Scorned in Andrew Marvell ’s “Damon the Mower” Marvell ’s “Damon the Mower” illustrates the pain of love through its rhetorical structure and voice. It ’s set up in the way of a tragic romance; there is the lover ’s lamenting framed by a narrative voice. The narrative voice gives the poem a tone of an epic‚ an old tale to be told‚ explaining that love scorned is all-encompassing and is only escaped through death. The first-person voice gives a personal depth
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downs between the relationship of two lovers in the male point of view. Humans always make mistakes; what’s important is that one learns from those mistakes one does. The imagery in Hunter Hayes’ “Still Fallin” reveals the persona’s thoughts of a man about his relationship to the addressee or the persona’s lover. The first verse of the song describes the expectations of his lover as shown in the first line “Who would think for all the days I’ve known you.” His lover expects him to know her very well
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despite her husband’s warning decided to visit her lover who lived in the countryside nearby. The castle was located on an island in a wide‚ fast-flowing river‚ with a drawbridge linking the island to land at the narrowest point in the river. “Surely my husband will not return before dawn‚” she thought and ordered her servants to lower the drawbridge and leave it down until she returned. After spending several pleasant hours with her lover‚ the Baroness returned to the drawbridge‚ only to find
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Now‚ the VOA Special English program‚ AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) We present the short story "The Lady‚ or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton. Here is Barbara Klein with the story. (MUSIC) STORYTELLER: Long ago‚ in the very olden time‚ there lived a powerful king. Some of his ideas were progressive. But others caused people to suffer. One of the king’s ideas was a public arena as an agent of poetic justice. Crime was punished‚ or innocence was decided‚ by the result of chance. When a person
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Knowledge is war’s greatest enemy. Because of this‚ in order for war to thrive‚ a state of ignorance must be perpetuated. War is the pinnacle contradiction against human morality‚ and for one to be able to betray all sense of ethics‚ one must abandon the knowledge of this gruesome reality. The theme of ignorance supplementing war is exhibited by three anti-war poems‚ Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen‚ Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Douglas‚ and War is Kind by Stephen Crane. Although all of these poems
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is a mirror through which her self-absorbed lover may view himself. "Mirrors are the perfect lovers‚" she states (6-7). They show a constant and loyal reflection to whoever may stand in front of them. She is objectifying herself as she tells her lover to carry her carefully up the stairs and to throw her on the bed with her "reflecting side up" (line 12). She then moves on to describe the patterns of their intimacy in an almost detached manner - her lover does not kiss her; he only kisses his own reflection
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presents the timeless theme of Time’s mutability. As the lover apostrophizes Time‚ one might expect him to address "old Time" as inconstant‚ for such an epithet implies time’s changeability. But inconstant also suggests capricious‚ and the lover finds time more grave than whimsical in its alterations. With the epithet "devouring" he addresses a greedy‚ ravenous hunger‚ a Time that is wastefully destructive. Conceding to Time its wrongs‚ the lover at first appears to encourage Time to satisfy its insatiable
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able to give him love and firmness – doesn’t let him stay calm. Awaiting the woman at the café he hopes she wouldn’t come and he would return home easily and happily: "How strange he should be hoping for her absence." Even spending time with the lover he misses his wife and thinks of her. How is that possible? Let’s characterize the wife. First of all we should say she is fairly a wise woman. We see she loves her husband and wants to have a happy family as any woman does: "she felt safer with
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