The poem leads us through the circle of seasons in England. It starts with a winter birth when snow was on the ground, and it ends back in the desolation of wintertime when the 'winds are sighing for all things dying'—as we sigh for those who have passed away, perhaps especia...
Thirdly, Plath reflects on heaven, a religious sanctum for those who have passed. Once someone dies, they lose all their experiences and memories: someone in heaven is devoid of any mention of their past life. The second line of the stanza is a beginning of a question that continues in th...
This poem published in, In Memoriam A.H.H., is an elegy (a poem of lament for someone who has passed away) and uses an ABBA Rhyme Scheme. It was written about Alfred Tennyson’s friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, who was engaged to Tennyson’s sister. Arthur H
Now reflect on THAT name. More than half of a century’s passed. Who’d have thought that the new name would last? But it has, and I’m sure That the name will endure. Since the old one has long been outclassed. So it’s Charlie, who got there too late For his own name to ...
So, I just started readingEmily Dickinson’s Imageryby Rebecca Patterson, introduced by Margaret H. Freeman. Freeman, in her introduction, takes an interesting stand as regards the chronology of Dickinson’s poems. For those of you who remain interested in Dickinson (are not yet bored by all ...
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For those who were treated, it suggests that the treatment was worse than the disease; it portrays the era's "madhouse[s]" as cruel, degrading, and ineffective. But this “madness," the speaker insists, is actually the consequence of living in a society (personified as a monster called ...
The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away - And now We roam in Sovreign Woods - And now We hunt the Doe - And every time I speak for Him The Mountains straight reply - And do I smile, such cordial light Opon the Valley glow - It is as a Vesuvian face Had let it’...
(1)___ them into two different worlds. " Nostalgia was a low (2)___ Me on the outside/ Mother on the inside, "And when the news came that Yu passed(3)___ on Dec 14,this metaphor(比喻) was quoted and rewritten by his fans to(4)___ their nostalgia for this great writer:...
Those hands she’d nurtured Every day for years. And yet, This day, This happy day Was hard; A day so full of smiles And some tears; Because she was a mother, Loved by two ..But she, a child too Who loved another; Felt this day ...