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best way of living. Thus, the whole of the poem centers on the idea of wholesome nature in a world without the instruction of mankind. In the first three stanzas, the virtues of the garden are provided through comparison with the trial (and supposed pleasures) of the world of men, stanzas five through seven address

Dickinson is an eventful story of how a speaker took a sudden ride with death ending up at her final resting point. Dickinson takes the reader on an imaginative journey fading in and out of reality and afterlife throughout the poem. In the first stanza, because is the first word, which can lead to the assumption that the speaker is going have an explanation about something that happened in their lifetime. Also death is perceived as a classful person, “kindly” stopping for the narrator. In the third

through the context of death on a small scale and whether the design of death has an influence on such a seemingly insignificant event. In the first stanza the speaker tells of their encounter with “assorted characters of death and blight,” a white spider, a white flower, and a dead white moth. The speaker then reflects on this encounter in the second stanza, asking questions regarding what circumstances and what element of fate brought the three together. The speaker seems to address no one in particular

Villanelles, comprised of nineteen lines, five tercets and a quatrain, and a refrain of the first and third line of the first stanza, allow for much freedom within a verse. The freedom of the villanelle form has uses from poems of light verse to works such as Sylvia Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song.” The latter poem focuses on the voice of a speaker who pines for her love, while she further enshrouds herself in repression of her experiences. Plath’s use of the villanelle form creates the effect of the

The first stanza is pretty much the opening to the rest of the poem. Thomas is saying that even though you are old you should still fight against death. This is evident in the second line when he says “Old age should burn and rave at close of day.” Close of day would be when death is approaching. The first and third lines are the two lines that are interchangeably used throughout the poem both have the same meaning. Both the lines could be interpreted as Thomas pleading to the audience to fight against

written in remembrance of those who past away in the Titanic. On the other hand, many believe the poem has an insulting tone against the unsinkable. Hardy talks about the appealing "jewels" in the fourth stanza and how the fish in the sea ask "What does this vaingloriousness down here?" In the fifth stanza. There are three lines that split a common rhyme scheme which is AAA (lines sixteen-eighteen). The Convergence of the Twain has several tone switches throughout the entire poem, the tone is much from

grow in size, and kernels develop in the centers of hazelnuts. Flowers continue to multiply until the bees feel as if warm days will never end. Summer has made its harvest so bountiful that it’s described as “o’er-brimmed” or bursting. In the second stanza, the poet directly addresses autumn. To Keats, autumn is a figure that can be found in the middle of its job, which is to facilitate nature’s growth. Autumn can be discovered sitting in a granary, or storehouse for threshed grain, the blowing wind

and kernels develop in the centers of hazelnuts. Flowers continue to multiply until the bees feel as if warm days will never end. Summer has made its harvest so bountiful that it’s described as “o’er-brimmed” or bursting. In the second stanza, the poet directly addresses autumn. To Keats, autumn is a figure that can be found in the middle of its job, which is to facilitate nature’s growth. Autumn can be discovered sitting in a granary, or storehouse for threshed grain, the blowing wind

birds start to chirp, and then the flowers start to blossom. Also this is more the reason why this poem has been included in the innocence section, as it shows time of joy and happiness. These are all from the first stanza, which already creates a pastoral scene. The first stanza has an AABBCCDD rhyme scheme, or also known as rhyming couplets. This type of rhyming poetry was

happiness - the ode stanza, extended to eleven lines, is give en a more prolonged effect and is also shared by autumn who watches the 'last oozing hours by hours' she is in time and bears the full load of agony inherent in process, but she is also above time watching the ceaseless and yet unhurried movement on the temporal plane. The first stanza is set in the morning hours, the second stanza is set in the drowsy midday and the sun's diurnal course is completed in the final stanza. The last two lines