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The Use Of The Color White In Frost's Poem "Design"
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 917.... after all.
In the second part of the first stanza Frost describes a witches brew with all the ingredients being white. Witches have traditionally been ugly people wearing all black, the color that represents darkness and death. By saying that the white spider and the dead moth are like ingredients of a witches brew is actually putting those two objects on a lower level of existence. Ingredients in witch brew are usually despicable items that are not worthy of any human being.
Frost talks about the spider on a white heal-all holding up a dead white moth. A heal-all is a fl .....
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 19
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 387.... lover grants to Time its own will: "And do whate'er
thou wilt, swift-footed Time," acknowLedging priorly that in its fleet passage
Time does "Make glad and sorry seasons. n For the first time one sees Time in
other than a destructive capacity--in its cycLical change of seasons, some Time
does "make glad" with blooming sweets. So the lover changes his epithet from
devouring to swift-footed, certainly more neutral in tone. For now the lover
makes his most assertive command: "But I forbid thee one most heinous crime. n
The final quatrain finds the lover ordering Time to stay its a .....
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Lord Byron's Euthanasia
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 941.... Augusta Ada, on December 10, 1811. Byron and Anne Milbanke divorced one year later and Byron left London forever. Byron went to Switzerland where he befriended Percy Shelly, another promenent poet at the time, and became fairly obsessed with him. In 1824, after Byron had send over 4000 pounds to the Greek fleet, he sailed to join Prince Alexandros Mavrokordatos, to join his forces and fight with him. Byron contracted a fever and died on April 19th, 1824 in Missolonghi, Greece.
Lord Byron's poem "Euthanasia" was published in 1812. It reflects how Lord Byron felt about his .....
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Critical Analysis Of "The Eagle" By Lord Tennyson
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 186.... The rhyme scheme is every last word in
each stanza rhyme's.
Some of the imagery is with sight and sound. For sight they are “
Close to the sun”, “Azure world”, azure mean the blue color in a clear
daytime sky. “Wrinkled sea beneath”, and “mountain walls”. The only one
that was imagery of sight & sound was “like a thunderbolt he falls”.
The figures of speech are “wrinkled sea”, which means the waves in
the ocean. And one simile is “like a thunderbolt he falls”, it is saying
how fast a eagle dives.
The poems theme is how an eagle can fly so high and dive so fast.
An .....
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Comparisons Of “Report Of The French Commission On American Education, 1879” To Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average”
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 875.... a united, equal society. America, as seen by the French, was a land of golden opportunities available to every child regardless of social standing. It was the basis for our country to survive. It safeguarded our standing in the world. Mike Rose’s school offered quite the opposite. It was a haven for long standing views on school being selective as to whom actually deserved the education. The only hope of the present school system is a few dedicated professionals. They could see the errors of the future and grasp to what made the system work in the past. Focusing on act .....
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The Theme Of Death In Poems
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 817.... at her final destination, which was her grave, yet she
describes it as her house. In the end she is looking back, and sees how
centuries have passed, yet she isn't passing by anymore, and to her this hundred
years seems as no time at all. Finally she accepts her death, and is able to
pass into eternity. To her death wasn't harsh like some see it, but a kindly,
gentle soul, taking her for a carriage ride to her final home.
A child experiences death much differently than an adult. Children
aren't quite able to see death as the sad even that it is. "First Death in Nova
Scot .....
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The Tyger By William Blake
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 857.... of the angry God, as it is a combination of mystery, terror, and of wrath. The contrast of the Lamb and the Tyger also resembles the idea of when a beautiful thing like love can turn into an ugly thing like hate. The Tyger is obviously a representation of evil and of darkness.
In Blake’s words, it is also apparent that the Tyger is somewhat of a puzzle, or an enigma, if you will. It is a mysterious beast with unknown origins. It seems that the Tyger is a result of something inhumane, whereas the Lamb is a direct product of Christ. According to the poet himself, .....
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Sylvia Plath's Poetry: Feminine Perfection
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 885.... She published her first poem when she was eight. Her father's death in 1940 from gangrene ( the consequence of a diabetic condition that he refused to treat), Plath was only eight years old, this was the crucial event of her childhood. In her poem "Daddy" we see Plath's imaginative transformations of experience into myths where the figure of her Prussian father is transformed into an emblem for masculine authority.
"Every woman adores a fascist,
The boot in the face the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you." (48-50)
Sylvia Plath wanted to become a writer at a time whe .....
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