Though the speaker admires the swans, the whole poem is suffused with an atmosphere of melancholy and regret—with the speaker projecting the kind of traits onto the swans that he feels he now lacks. There has been much speculation about the source of the speaker's feelings. The poem itself...
Finally, the knights are those people who seem to embody all our wishes and desires. The Lady not having a knight to dote on her emphasizes that she has not seen her most tempting hopes and desires show up in her mirror yet, like many of us....
Context: ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’ was written by Plath while she was still at Smith College, and before her first suicide attempt on 24thAugust 1953. An early poem, this is nevertheless exemplary of Plath’s work and her style of poetry writing as a whole. Dealing with the themes of ...
The speaker in this poem, speaking from Byzantium rather than planning to embark for it, seems both a little ambivalent about the glory of Byzantine art (which seems to “scorn” and “disdain” mere mortals here, not just transcend them) and a little more ready to explore the connection ...
I’ll be back soon. I have some books I’ve read lately I thought I’d tell you about, and recipes and such will be coming as well. Even if it’s not as timely as I’d like! For now, I wish you all a very blessed Imbolc, Candlemas, or whatever you celebrate on the Equinox...
An abundance of humanity complains about past generations although trends were not the greatest it's persistent rebalance of pros and cons about all aspects of life. I couldn't agree more with you that the theme of the poem demonstrates that humanity wishes regression to the way life once 113...
emphasizes the change of attitude and how the speaker is ready to listen to somejazz. It can also emphasize how the speaker wishes someone could take his pain…show more content… Throughout the poem, there is no consistent rhyme scheme, but this stanza has assonance. The repetition of the...
wishes that grow with every sigh angel dear let love wait by your side grateful for every smile let earth and sky be as it is to us, mostly kind let there be trees to guard fruits to grace your table vegetables to add strength
Fortune and Antony part here; even here Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts That were like spaniels at my heels, to whom I gave their wishes, melt like sweets and candy On Ceasar, who doth blossom like a flower. Which do you prefer? Writing through the metaphor? Or wri...
develops. All this has meant taking a break from blog posting. I haven’t quit reading Dickinson, or about her. The latest biography I’ve been reading isLives Like Loaded Gunsby Lyndall Gordon, and there was a little aside that dropped like a bomb in the confetti of my mind. Gordon ...