Keats’s speakers contemplate urns (“Ode on a Grecian Urn”)‚ books (“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” [1816]‚ “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again” [1818])‚ birds (“Ode to a Nightingale”)‚ and stars (“Bright star‚ would I were stedfast as thou art” [1819]). Unlike mortal beings‚ beautiful things will never die but will keep demonstrating their beauty for all time. Keats explores this idea in the first book of Endymion (1818). The speaker in “Ode on a Grecian Urn” envies the immortality
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In Shelley’s poem "Ode to the West Wind" His call of revolution and change is very strong. He portrays the deterioration of humanity and he invokes individuals to wake up. He also hopes for a millennial future‚ of a major transformation to the better. The poet believes that the society declined to its "grave". He describes the people as dead leaves. He uses the colors of dead flesh to describe the leaves "Yellow‚ and black‚ and pale‚ and hectic red". He also describes the society as "ghosts…fleeing"
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Robert Frost’s love of nature is expressed in the setting of his poem "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening." His elaborate description of the woody setting brings vivid images to the reader’s mind. Frost explains the setting so descriptively that the reader feels he is in the woods also<br><br>The setting is a very important tool Frost uses in writing this poem. The setting is obviously in the woods‚ but these are not just any old woods. Something caught the speaker’s eyes in these woods making
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The two strongest concepts present in Keat’s poem‚ "Ode on a Grecian Urn‚" are desire and satisfaction. These concepts usually cannot be fully present at the same time‚ but Keats found something tangible that does encompass both. In this essay I will expand upon the idea of an urn having two seemingly conflicting concepts‚ how this idea is defined‚ what options the speaker has with regard to the consequences‚ and how the conflict is resolved. I will also give my opinion on whether or not the
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Seamus Haney’s translation and the Fitz and Fitzgerald translation of the first Ode of Antigone differ in their portrayals of the strength and resilience of man. While both translations paint humanity as having ingenuity and power‚ Haney’s translation describes man as being able to overcome anything through hard work in conjunction with the world around him while the Fitz and Fitzgerald translation portrays man as all-powerful and in complete control of his surroundings‚ describing his achievement
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A Warm Hug An Ode to Mom’s Home Cooking By Eric Flieth February 8‚ 2006 There are certain things in life that everybody loves. Whether its money‚ nice cars‚ a beautiful home‚ or a significant other. There is one thing that seems to trump these all and never gets mentioned much. That true love is mom’s home cooking. Before you write off my assumption as bland and ridiculous‚ consider this. Besides the presents‚ and the family time‚ what is most people’s favorite thing about Christmas? If you
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composed the ’Ode on a Grecian Urn’‚ based on a sonnet written by Wordsworth in 1811. The theme of transience and permanence‚ which struck Keats in Wordsworth’s poetry‚ forms the leading theme in the Odes. The ode‚ ’To Autumn’‚ may be seen as a temporary ’bridge’ in the debate between the two states‚ in this case symbolised by the seasons. A reprieve is achieved‚ although the problem is not solved‚ "Where are the songs of Spring Ay‚ Where are they? Think not of them..." In ’Ode to a Nightingale’
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The clocks seem to speak for time‚ but in fact they represent the human marking of time. Time exists as a continuum‚ but clocks take the concept of time and force a structure on it. In this way‚ the clocks speak for time far less than they speak for society’s rules and conventions.The formatting of the poem reinforces this notion. The rhyme scheme is an abcb defe pattern that demonstrates the dichotomy between the constant flow of time and the structure forced upon it by society. The unrhymed lines
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Shelley’s "Ode To the West Wind": Analysis In "Ode to the West Wind‚" Percy Bysshe Shelley tries to gain transcendence‚ for he shows that his thoughts‚ like the "winged seeds" (7) are trapped. The West Wind acts as a driving force for change and rejuvenation in the human and natural world. Shelley views winter not just as last phase of vegetation but as the last phase of life in the individual‚ the imagination‚ civilization and religion. Being set in Autumn‚ Shelley observes the changing of
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Plot Development Biff and Happy return home after having left Willy alone at Frank’s Chop House. They bring Linda a bouquet of roses which she knocks down to the ground in anger at the boys for having abandoned Willy. Linda insults her boys and accuses them of not caring about their father. Happy acts innocently and downplays what he has done wrong whereas Biff accepts what he has done wrong and even degrades himself by announcing that he is the "scum of the earth." Biff wants to speak to his father
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