The Eve of St Agnes

Beginning the poem with the explanation of how one feels when they first experience someone’s deception, Weslowski chooses words like “mummified” (6) and “morgue” (4) to paint the image of grief and the loss of self-expression through words. Using the term morgue makes the reader

This stanza ties in with the first stanza and lets the reader know it is the beautiful love between these two people that is dying on this cold winter day.

The similarities between the poems lie in their abilities to utilize imagery as a means to enhance the concept of the fleeting nature that life ultimately has and to also help further elaborate the speaker’s opinion towards their own situation. In Keats’ poem, dark and imaginative images are used to help match with the speaker’s belief that both love and death arise from fate itself. Here, Keats describes the beauty and mystery of love with images of “shadows” and “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” to illustrate his belief that love comes from fate, and that he is sad to miss out on such an opportunity when it comes time for his own death.

From the first few lines Keats alludes to the great romances of the previous ages as opposed to William Shakespeare's great tragedies. While it could be discerned that Keats is referring to his poem

The play Agnes of God is a play by John Pielmeier set in 1979 Upstate New York. In a short summary the play consist of three actors, Dr. Martha Livingstone (Kimberlee Connor) who is a court-appointed psychiatrist sent to evaluate Sister Agnes (Emily Freeman), a young nun whose new born baby has been found strangled, and dead inside of a waste basket, and Mother Miriam Ruth (Shannon Ouellette), who is an overbearing Mother nun who constantly insists that Ms. Livingstone leave Agnes alone. With Agnes claiming a virgin conception and having no memory of giving birth, and Mother Miriam Ruth unwilling to cooperate, Livingstone must figure out between the lies and the nun's perception-altering faith. In the end Ms. Livingstone is left with unanswered

Edna fails to control her impulses of her sexual desires and willingly breaks social conformity of her era. She undoubtedly leaves her family to pursue a life without her children and husband. “The acme of bliss, which would have been marriage with the tragedian, was not for her in this world. As the devoted wife of a man who worshipped her, she felt she would take her place with a certain dignity in the world of reality, closing the portals forever behind her upon the realm of romance and dreams” (Chopin 21). Edna felt destined to live the fantasy life, and with that she believed starting over in another relationship would best benefit her. Morally, this wasn’t acceptable to society around her and she would be seen as a bad mother and wife, yet this did not seem to phase her. Further on Edna takes a moment to reflect if what she is doing is what she believes is following her passions. “But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtake her; the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition. … There came over her the acute longing which always summoned into her spiritual vision the presence of the beloved one”(Chopin 159). After Edna realizes that following her passions may have led her to the wrong place, she finds herself still in a position she can be happy with, which is with the “beloved one”. Edna has

The use of the detached word “Lethal” in the final stanza suggests that this is the core to the emotion of love, and the surface to the surrounding layers is red roses and satin hearts.

Although the basic mood and intended idea of these poems may seem to be the same, the two ways in which these two messages are portrayed are different from one another through diction and imagery. Keats’ poem is much more romantic and enchanting, using eloquent symbols containing imagery such as when he says, “When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, /Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,”(5-6). This complex symbol of imagery, complemented by the use of the word “love” twice in the poem, contribute to the poem being characterized as more romantic. On the other hand,”Mezzo

Using a pensive and sorrowful tone, Bronte portrays her sadness for a love cut short by her death, and her regret that she is forgetting her memories of her lover. ‘Helena’ complements this with the emotional lyric My Chemical Romance’s singer, Gerard Way, wrote about the painful passing of his beloved grandmother whilst he was on tour, and how he felt he neglected her due to his travels. Obviously, as this song was written about his grandmothers passing, the theme is death. This is supported by the line where it says ‘and like a blade you stain, well I’ve been holding on tonight’, which is a metaphor for how the death of his grandmother has stained his heart, (possibly meaning he is ‘cut up’ about her death),he can’t forget her nor let go of his guilt for leaving her before she died. Both ‘Helena’ and ‘Remembrance’ complement each other due to the fact that they both speak of a lifetime terminated too early. The tone of ‘Helena’ is mournful but angry, perhaps at himself for not being there when he lost a love one, one could even say fervent and regretful, for example, when he says ‘you are the very hurt you sold’ which reflects his hurting and how he was angry towards others because he was angry with himself, ‘we are so far from you’ which depicts his realisation that he will never see his grandmother again, and ‘every star fall brought you to tears again’, which tells of how every little thing that reminded him of her brought him to grief. Both poems

St. Adelaide of Burgundy was born in 931 in Orbe Castle, Orbe. She was the daughter of King Rudolf II (Rupert II) of Upper Burgundy. At the age of two, she was betrothed for political reasons to Lothair of Provence, heir of King Hugh of Italy. At the age of sixteen, she married Lothair, now King of Italy. Lothair died in 950. Berengar, the new king, tried to force Adelaide to marry his son, but she refused. Since she refused, she was imprisoned. She escaped in August 951 and asked for the help of the German king, Otto the Great. Adelaide married Otto in Pavia, Italy the same year. They had four children together and when Otto died in May 973, their son, Otto II, became the ruler. When Otto II died in 983, he was succeeded by his infant son,

The words ‘tedious’, ‘lost’, ‘bitterness’ and ‘ominous’ convey a bleak tone of death and depression. The first and second lines of the second stanza: ‘Your eyes on me… riddles of years ago’ reveals that the couple have had many similar arguments without any progress over the years. Furthermore, while smiles are normally associated with happiness and pleasure, Hardy describes the lover’s smile as ‘the deadest thing / Alive enough to have strength to die’, suggesting that their love has become meaningless. Hardy compares the lover’s grin to an ‘ominous bird-a-wing’, which symbolises Hardy’s lost

- This chapter of the book was started from 1608 to 1763 lasting a long period of time.

These two lines“ Their words mostly noises, ghosts with just voices” (11-12) is how the lovers feel as everyone around them is talking. The hustle and bustle of the world around them barely breaks through the fog of their turmoil. It’s like they are in a house that is haunted, yet the ghosts are going about their business without causing in incidents. No one around them is making a lasting impression. All they can think is about each other “ Your words in my memory, are like music to me.” ( 13-14). Even though everyone sounds like ghosts, barely there to them, the two lovers can not get each other’s voice out of each other’s head. Their voice is like music to them because that’s what they want to hear. They don’t want to hear what everyone is saying or doing, because they don’t have each other yet. The only thing that can make them feel alive again is the one they love. They feel cold and numb without each other“ I lay down on the cold ground,” (16) However, they know once they get to each other, they will be filled with warmth, “ I pray that something picks me up, and sets me down in your warm arms.”(17-18). Warm arms can also describe how they feel safe and whole with each other.

He calls the painting of her “a wonder” and does not elaborate upon this, suggesting that while he was fond of his wife, their love was quite subdued. This allows him to remain calm and present a dignified front. However, as the poem continues, he becomes more obsessive over her and speaks quite aggressively of what he deems to be promiscuous behaviour. The “bough of cherries some officious fool broke in the orchard for her” seems to be a major part of his outrage, as he is offended that “she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody’s gift”. By telling his companion of this in a conversation that merely started with mention of a painting, the Duke reveals that he is very much not in control of himself. These constant tests of his patience – which seem very much unintentional on the Duchess’ part – seem to weigh heavily on the Duke’s mind as he says “here you miss, or there exceed the mark” showing heavy criticism on the Duchess. He wanted her to “let herself be lessoned so”, which shows the extent to which her behaviour troubles him. It also creates the air of superiority in that he sees himself as a sort of teacher, and her as the student. The loss of control comes where “all smiles stopped together”, suggesting a macabre end to the story. Both Medusa and the Duke seem to cause destruction and chaos around them as a direct result of being emotionally impacted by those they love. This weakness

The Eve St. Agnes is happened in January 20 then setting is in medieval castle, The lord has a daughter , named Madeline. And she is in a magical vision of her special someone at the midnight dreams. Madeline adopt the old superstition and prepares because it is required to her, it means she is going to the supper less to bed. Porphyro, is in love with Madeline and whom she loves. But Madeline’s family is not against to relationship of Madeline and Phophyro, because Madeline’s Family they treat Porphyro as an enemy on sight. Madeline believes become reality by his presence in her bedroom at midnight flashes into her mind. Madeline express her fear that Porphyro will abandon her. Madeline and Porchyro are leave together in the castle undetected and go out into the storm.