This essay shows every single thing you will need for one of Alexander Pope's poems, namely it is "A Dying Christian in his soul". i take honors english, hopes this helps :)

The last sentence of the poem, ““There is still murder in your heart” (14), is a powerful claim that suggests that a routine consisting of prayer, communion, or hymn singing will not dissolve the sin of the heart. However, seeing this claim from a different standpoint, this can also suggest that this dull routine is convenient when it comes to preserving an appearance of purity and grace. There is an image in the middle of the poem, “light swords” (7), that possibly represents sharp members of the congregation trying to deceive the church authorities and God. Their comfort to the routine is remarkable because it does not really make a difference at the end; the only thing that truly matters is the masked life they are trying to keep hidden. Readers may consider the arguments presented in this poem as the truth reaching out to the contemporary church and its followers to improve their relationship with

With the language being written in a colloquial style, it illustrates a more true and realistic approach while underlining the speaker’s statement to the Pope in a much stronger way. The choice of using words that solely relate to the native culture such as “isistawina” (27) and “matotsan” (42) demonstrate the effort the speaker is publicly displaying to maintain and uphold her customs. The use of no capitalization can relate to the idea that the poem is written in a vernacular language, but also provides evidence that the speaker does not believe the she or her culture, is better than another. It is not her objective to prove her culture should become more dominant, but to provide awareness of the past history and the impact caused from it. Communicating and expressing the poem with the heavy dialect not only signifies the importance of the speaker’s culture, as well adds humour and a sense of satire as a result of the improper diction.

In the first stanza, the writer uses many techniques to convey the feeling of loss, when he says,

Furthermore, the troubled man starts to follow the young boy, who is not bothering him, and steps on the back of his shoe. This startles the young boy, which also surprises the old man. The man becomes so scared of the unknown character that he went looking for, and chokes the song out of the innocent boy. Above all, the word sing is used through connotation and denotation. To illustrate, in the fifth stanza it states, “a Water person of old who grew troubled by the strange singing floating in the dark.” Singing is used as a connotation in this sentence representing life. Life is gentle and born with innocence, however the old man did not like this type of life and assume the young boy was doing a guilty act. No doubt, a hoodie on a rainy day is strange, candy and tea is uncommon partners, and singing a catchy tune by yourself is weird. Therefore, when the young boy turned around to a sudden pressure on the back of his shoe and took him out of his tune, the old man could not see his daughter, son, granddaughter, or grandson in the young boy’s eyes. The young boy was born with the same purity as a white child, but at that moment the old man became the judge, jury, and the

Finally in the third stanza there is the semantic field of nature: ‘mountain’, ‘rivers’, ‘seas’. Nature has the role of judge. It decides whether she has to be punished or not. Nature is represented as a sort of divine entity deciding of her fate because she has decided of someone else’s right to live. Again the water is represented several times with ‘rivers’ (line 17) and ‘seas’ (line 18 and 19) it gives the impression that she thinks

Starting from the first line of the poem, the speaker’s tone points to a theme that involves being safe from harm but also dealing with its traumatic stains. In “Because I Could not Stop for Death,” the speaker is a spirit from a recently deceased individual. She is reminiscent of certain events from her life before death. In the first two lines, the speaker says “Because I could not stop for Death / He kindly stopped for me.” At first, the speaker is hesitant to accept her death. However, in later lines, the tone of the poem is peaceful. The reluctance to hold on to the past is fading away when she

This text begins by offering an insightful quote into Alexander Pope’s life: "Who is this Pope that I hear so much about?" said George II; "I cannot discover what his merit is. Why will not my subjects write in prose? I hear a great deal, too, of Shakespeare, but I cannot read him, he is such a bombast fellow". The author then proceeds to present an account of his early life.

This is found in the second stanza, lines 14-16. ‘My feet begin the uphill curve’ signifies the speaker’s rise to the next challenge he will face and the denotation of the word thicket in the next line also contributes to this idea of a trial. The phrase in line 16, ‘Rain touches my face.’ is personified to represent something washing away and becoming new. The speaker in “Five Flights Up” reaches a similar understanding. After the observations made of the animals in nature, he realizes he can be just as at peace with the world as they are. In the very last stanza, there is a shift in between lines 24 and 25. It is in this shift where we find the speaker’s awareness that he is able to overcome his trials. He references his ‘yesterday’, and how, because of the peace he has come to take on, he is able to go on with this life in spite of his prior

The last part of every stanza repeats the words “my soul” that are also found in every line of the chorus. This use repetition drives home the message to the reader that the writer’s peace was not just outwardly but one that was deep and engrained in him. The writer repeats the phrase “It is well” in every line of the chorus drawing the focus of the reader back to the reason for the song. This constant reassuring of the fact that no matter what transpires in life because of God we can say “It is well” is perhaps what makes this a favorite among

The most notable quality of Bishop “the Fish” is the way she can use imagery and narrate her life. In the setting, the poem has a fisherman who has caught a fish that didn't give a fight. The narrative voice establishes the awe of the woman over the fish that had obviously been through many encounters and fights for his life. Thought the use imagery, symbolism, and style the reader is brought into bonding with a fish that has suffered and experience the feeling of giving up in the battles of life just like the rest of us. Filled with vivid imagery Bishop helps the reader to form a bond and relate to the fish.

Pope uses the features of metaphor and personification to give readers the perception that war is a glorious and exciting affair in which the citizens of a nation have a responsibility to protect and serve their country.

It starts with two quatrains, followed by a sestet and ended with a couplet. The rhyme scheme of this poem is used to contrast the idea of death with the happy mood of rhyming. The poem has a theme of death, but to get across the tone that the speaker has accepted his fate and is looking forward to heaven, the author uses rhyme to add a more upbeat feeling to what could be a sad moment. The genre of this poem is Christian poetry which greatly influences the themes of the poem, which are death, Christianity and judgement day. This poem is also grammatically complete, using comas to naturally break a sentence while still maintain one idea.

Another puzzling feature of the poem “Because I could not stop for Death” which has undergone much debate is the “[pause] before a House that seemed/ A Swelling of the Ground.” These lines are usually interpreted in two way: the first being that the pause is actually a stop for the subject who is left at a true house and thus there is no burial in the poem, the second is that it is only a pause at the grave before the “self” moves on “towards eternity” thus achieving immortality.

The poem has many different hidden meanings but they are all based around a common theme of faith.

In the climax of his fearful dream, Crusoe hears a voice threaten him, "Seeing all these things have not brought thee to Repentance, now thou shalt die," and he awakens with a tremendous "Impression" on his mind (65). This is a point of change for the sailor, and he meditates on his life and the unacknowledged influence of God. Pope’s essay speaks to this awareness, for his focus is on the presence of God in nature and humanity. In Section 8 he exclaims, "Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, / Natures ethereal, human, Angel, Man, / Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect!" (237-39). According to Pope, the existence of all things emanates from a God who created all things to be united. This message also speaks to Crusoe, when he first becomes aware of the link between God and himself. As soon as Crusoe becomes open to God, he begins thinking, "Such as we are all made by some secret Power, who form’d the Earth and Sea, the Air and Sky; and who is that? . . . It is God" (68). Robinson Crusoe comes to see God as the creator that Pope has presented him and in this way, Pope’s "An Essay on Man" articulates Crusoe’s development as a person.