Bade through the deep recesses of our breast The unregarded river of our life Pursue with indiscernible flow its way; And that we should not see The buried stream, and seem to be Eddying at large in blind uncertainty, Though driving on with it eternally. But often, in the world's most...
The poem is a reflection on the human condition and the search for meaning and purpose in life. Arnold explores the idea that there is a part of us that is buried deep inside, a part we often ignore or suppress. This buried life is our true self, our innermost desires and aspirations,...
Perfect external rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter are used throughout the poem, which both give the poem flow and rhythm. The “dust” in lines four and five is a metaphor for the soldier’s life; England created him and he will become “dust concealed” when he dies and is buried. ...
The last decade of his life was filled with travel and speaking arrangements. He died of a stroke at Memorial Hospital in North Conway, New Hampshire. The pet was buried at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston. Influence from other Poets E.E. Cummings was notably influenced by writers such as ...
Open Document "The Bean Eaters” The descriptive adjectives in Gwendolyn Brooks’ “The Bean Eaters” help contribute to the poem’s thematic intent. At the very beginning of the poem she starts to describe who the “bean eaters” are that she is writing the poem about. She writes, “They...
while buried in the earth. This is a dark and fearful image that brings up images of people being buried alive. The flower that may be at the center of this poem would be buried in the dark earth in order to grow, something that is not fearful but life-producing. It is interesting ...
Above us--the train couldn't move fast enough. It isn't clear what happened next. Are you and I Still sitting there in the train, waiting for the lights To go on? Or did the real train get really buried; So at night a ghost train comes out and keeps going... ...
cosmos echoing the big cosmos of the world.The different time periods of the man are identical to the four seasons:the speaker compares his lover to summer,implying the best time of her life.The metaphor of the sun goes throughout the poem,sustained and developed with the writing moving ...
A summary and full analysis line by line of T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land,' one of the most influential modern poems. Inspired by the Grail legend, it is full of religion, occult symbolism and mythology.
In it, the poem discusses the ultimate truth about life and death in free-flowing poetic lines. The speaker stands alone in a graveyard, deep in thought. He considers all the bodies buried there and thinks about the inevitability of death. He includes his own epitaph in the poem, ...