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The Raven Symbolism “The Raven” is a narrative poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. Many authors have used talking birds and ravens in their writing, but used in Poe uses the raven to represent a sad longing for his dead wife or lover with the emotions of loneliness, sadness, fear,madness, and death. “The Raven” was inspired by “A Tale of the Riots Eighty” by Charles Dickens. Throughout the poem, the narrator looks for some answers about seeing his wife, Lenore again in the afterlife as he stares…

been and what is now, and is held throughout the entirety of the poem. The questions Agard poses to the reader often juxtaposes an object seemingly harmless, with the dark theme of war. The rhetoric juxtaposition is evident in stanza 1, lines 7 and 8, and the second stanza, in lines 17 and 18 when these particular questions are…

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot) wrote the The Hollow Men which revolves around the idea of how war affects and devastates society. The overall tone of this poem is grim and foreboding. The theme of The Hollow Men expressed through imagery, similes, allusions, and metaphors is that war ruins men and society. Historically The Hollow Men was written in response to World War I and its effects on society. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a Harvard graduate and an extremely prolific writer for his time. The…

It is an eternal force that is always there, and can never be extinguished. Moving on to the second stanza, Emily Dickinson writes “And the sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –.” The Gale is the strong wind that blows, signaling a storm of some form or distress. Hope is “sweetest” and most powerful in times of trial and adversary, as it is the fight for…

In the poems “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes and “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou both authors convey the same message which is overcoming hardships in life. In the two poems they show their similarities through repetition which will be shown in the first paragraph and literary devices such as figurative language,metaphors and similes, while also showing their differences through parallel structure of both the poems, and through rhetorical questions. Hughes and Angelou show their…

resist Octavian, but had finally been returned to his friends and family. He urges Pompeius continually to indulge in wine and forget the peril of the past and remember the exciting memories of drunken happiness they had partaken in. Within the first stanza of the poem, Horace recounts of the time of which they had both shared in Brutus’s army, and speaks of how it was at the fault of Brutus that they had been led into peril and defeat; it states “O saepe mecum tempus in ultimum deducte Bruto…

The stanza derived from Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” is representative and reflective of the loss of faith in 19th century, Victorian England. In the stanza, “The Sea of Faith” a metaphor for the retreat from religious ideologies. Throughout the stanza Arnold is referring to this metaphor, as when he states that it “was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore.” I think that the poet is claiming that the religious beliefs that he and others have had were once very important to them. The…

This Is a Photograph of Me the author looks onto a canvas the smears resembling a print of some sort, and after some time this smudge turns into a seemingly peaceful scenery with the dark truth of her death hidden below the details. Within the first stanza she starts off by looking at the painting stating”At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flecks blended with the paper.” As she continues to stare her imagination starts to wander and as the smear begins to turn into…

Have you ever connected to a thoughtful, original writing? The poem, “Pretty Words”, by Elinor Wylie is a free verse poem about the beauty of the unique, descriptive themes and words of all different types of writing. “Pretty Words” is an old poem written by Elinor Wylie. She was born on September 7, 1885, and passed away on December 16, 1928. Wylie was a famous American poet who loved expressing her affection towards poetry. Her poem, “Pretty Words” appeared to others in 1932. Creativity is…

inescapable truth: death. What of the dead? Have we forgotten them? Do they enter touch as well? Can they too have that flickering moment? We already know the answer. The stones that descended in the wind from the sea on the lovers in the preceding stanza form the boats that take away the dead. The dead are carried away by the unsympathetic nature of our universe, that which torments us while living and eventually causes our lives to stop. The dead become the matter of that same universe,…