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evolution of one person’s life, from ecstasy to a time of despair and solemness. With his poem, Poe ultimately strives to inform readers about the truth about the darkness of the future ,and the false hope that youth commonly put in it. The first two stanzas of “The Bells” are times of joy and tranquility, and serves the purpose of illustrating the joy in the youth, as well as establishing a light happy feeling. “What a world of happiness their harmony foretells” (17). The assonance of this…

comprehend the main points of the poem. 2. The poem is strategically broken into stanzas to apply dual meanings to each line. If one was to only read a single line of a stanza, they would get a different understanding than if they read both lines. For instance, the second stanza in Steven’s poem reads, “nothing to stand in/ the way of the eye”. This use of stanzas and punctuation creates double meaning for the stanza. 3. The authors insinuates a message that the landscape of the prairies are…

Toward the end of the stanza something interesting occurs. “The stars are “Swing[ing] their lights westward/ To set behind the land” meaning morning is coming and night will soon end; night being natural symbol for death and dark times in ones life so when night ends something…

keeps up to date with the housekeeping. The woman in this stanza is filling up the “warm caves” with a lot of different things, such as, “skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, silks” and these things are described as “innumerable goods” (816). In this stanza, the speaker switches the tone from the haunting descriptions of the first stanza to a sort of chaotic but friendly images of the second stanza. The tone is chaotic in the second stanza because the “worms” and “elves” are complaining and…

The first thing I changed was the last two lines of the first stanza. I switched the statement that it was a Memorial Day Parade with the weather description since I felt that the heat was a bigger theme in the poem, but it was still important to state it was a parade so the reader could understand the context. The second stanza’s first few lines were changed because I thought the new wording incorporated the sound of the parade with the feel of being there. I thought including this detail…

the meaning of the lines in the stanza, the mood of the poem and the feeling of the poet when he wrote the poem. It is known that the poem ‘Do Not Go into That Gentle Night’ is considered one of Dylan Thomas’s most popular poems. As seen, the poem is structured in a very unique way specifically acknowledged as Villanelle which has different structure from a sonnet or ballad poems. A villanelle poem is constructed in 19 lines sentences in six stanzas, made of stanzas of three lines sentences for…

Merriam-Webster definition; having less than normal amount of strength or force; very weak. (Merriam-Webster) Cummings uses irony to define just how intense his feelings are for her, and the incredible power she has over the speaker. As the fourth stanza closes, Cummings uses alliteration, compels, colour, and countries. Again, the speaker portrays his lover as powerful, possibly immortal; “rendering death and forever with each breathing”. (Cummings) Rendering death seems to be an act that…

The tone of stanza 1 is horrific. It includes this quote, “Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We thought it was the Judgement-day.” This quote includes multiple words to make the poem feel horrific like coffins, broken windows, and Judgement-day. This shows that the world is in pieces and may be coming to an end, which for most is a horrific event. Coffins also shows this since, they hold dead bodies which since the mid-1800s has been the center for horror…

the first stanza begins with “Do not go gentle into that good night”, reiterating the title. It goes on to state that even in one’s old age, an individual must not succumb to the lure of…

strongly express the hope that his father can fight with the death in the end. The first stanza of the poem points out the theme directly: the elderly should live like blazing fire during burning, fighting fiercely for the arrival of the death, instead waiting…