The person addressed in the poem is reminded that beauty fades as age advances and inevitably people whose love is based only on physical appearance will prove to be faithless. On the other hand, those who love someone for attributes such as character and spirit are more likely to remain...
Return to my mind with stranger pain: –Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago. Philip Larkin 短诗的魅力在于,它懂得适可而止,礼貌而克制。它准确有力、直击要害,却并不恋战。它将读诗之后那漫长的时间交付于你,充满笃定。因为它知道,于你而言,它就像是清晨...
Now morning is pushing back hair with grey light Memories strike home, like slaps in the face; Raised on elbow, I stare at the pale fog beyond the window. So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: - Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who le...
In the novel, Rowling creates an anagram to disguise the name of the overarching villain, Lord Voldemort. One character acquires a diary belonging to someone named Tome Marvolo Riddle. Later in the novel, the ghost-like character of Tom rearranges his own name to spell out “I am Lord ...
but, in this case the adjective ‘pretty’ informs us about the how-ness of the town. At the end of the eighth stanza there’s a period, Cummings may have been showing the end of “anyone” and “no-ones” lives’ and the end of hope that “everyone” and “someone” would change...
In a perfect world, he would realize that I'm the one he was supposed to be with & I would still be standing here waiting for him still when he finally knows this. But this isn't a perfect world and people do get hurt. Because how can you give your dreams to someone else, yet ...
The poem is a dramatic monologue, meaning that the speaker is addressing someone specific. In this case, she's speaking to the husband who has betrayed her. The poem doesn't use any conventional forms (for example, it's not a sonnet or villanelle), but develops organically, with a ...
In this essay the author presents Flumine nectareo from the collection Appendix carminum by Venantius Fortunatus as an example of a poem meant to be a gift of friendship to someone close to the poet. This particular poem is addressed to Agnes, the abbess o...
These are parts of plays that when read on the page or preformed help the reader better understand who the characters are and what it is that’s driving them. Soliloquies can be powerful and pivotal moments in plays as someone’s true motivations or intentions might be revealed. ...
proved to be suitable. One day, when he decided to replace his present attendant, he called all the monks together and addressed them: 'I am now getting old and wish to have someone as a permanent attendant who will obey my wishes in every way. Which of you would like to be my ...