Elegiac

shaking hands symbolize strength, protection and can transmit spiritual and physical energy. The poet knows that he must stay strong and that he has someone looking over him to protect him. Similarly, Lord Byron’s poem, ‘When we two parted’, uses elegiac features. Byron describes the death of his loved one, ‘Pale grew they cheek and cold’ (Byron, 1815). A cold cheek symbolizes a lifeless cold body. In stanza 3 the word knell is used, ‘a knell to mine ear’ (Byron, 1815). Knell is the soberly…

In the realm of the play, where self-serving desire appears to overwhelm all other inspiration, Brutus satisfies Antony's elegiac portrayal of him as "the noblest of Romans." However, his dedication to standard more than once drives him to make miscounts: needing to shorten savagery, he overlooks Cassius' proposal that they should execute Antony and Caesar. In another snippet…

In the 1830s John Downes’, a weaver, explores America where he is currently an immigrant from England who took a job in America so that he could earn money to enable and persuade his family to emigrate to America. Downes uses first person to express his tone of the letter. He uses rhetorical devices, pathos, and conversational diction in relation to his family matters and American experience. Downe’s American experience sets an example for his immigration from England to America.…

In her poem "What the Living Do," Marie Howe writes an elegiac description of loss, and of living beyond loss. She is saying that we spend so much of our lives obsessed with minute details such as “remembering to call the plumber, trying to fix the central heating or driving” that we often forget how magical it is simply to be alive. We spend our time rushing around from one errand to the next, one list of things to do to another that we forget to see the world we live in, we forget to enjoy the…

example was given by Hrothgar when talking to Beowulf, “Killing Hathlaf, a Wulfing warrior” (Line 194). There also is the device of lament which is used as Beowulf dies and everyone feels remorse over the loss of a great warrior. The story becomes elegiac when it tells how the companions of Beowulf talked in remembrance of Beowulf’s accomplishments in life after Beowulf dies. Finally, the story Beowulf was told by scops and bards at tribal feasts, in fact the passing of the story through mouth…

In the elegiac folk story, Beowulf, “the great masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon literature,” a mighty yet noble warrior and King of the Geats, faces three battles that detail his heroic life (Diana). Through his God-sent powers, Beowulf’s selflessness and leadership drive him against his enemies as he protects his people. Influenced by Christianity in the early Danish society, the protagonist, Beowulf, values loyalty, courage, and faith in the face of extreme danger and death. Loyal to his King,…

Throughout Smith’s elegiac sonnet, the speaker employs a wide variety of rhymes in order to demonstrate her growing anger and sadness towards her poetic abilities. Because Smith’s work follows the structure of a traditional English sonnet, end rhymes are employed at the close of each line. Thus, the last word of the first line rhymes with the last word of the third line, the last word of the second line rhymes with the last word of the fourth line, so on and so forth. In the opening quatrain,…

1. The story begins with a father and his son in the woods, the boy asleep. The two are making their journey along the road in a post-apocalyptic world. The date and place are never said, though you can kind of tell it takes place somewhere in the United states because the father tells his son they’re walking the “state roads”. Neither the man nor the boy is given a name; this anonymity adds to the novel's tone that this could be happening anywhere, to anyone. 2. The biggest theme I…

The characters in Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie all have a delusional state of mind, shown by the inner psychology when read with a psychoanalytical approach. The play is written in the style of expressionistic. In the first sentence of the Production Notes it says “it is a memory play.” “Memory play” suggests that it is a play worked out in one’s mental process, rather than a real life representation. Instead of external reality, the idea becomes the primary concern of…

The diet of 11 fruits Slimming in five days. The diet of 11 fruits is ideal for weight loss. By making an effort to lose weight, it helps to divide the meals into two categories: foods high and low concentration. Meat, dairy, grains and most junk foods have a high concentration of calories; while fruits and vegetables are high in water and fiber, which makes them much lower in calories. Everything in this diet of 11 fruits helps a lot to lose weight fast and have more energy because it…