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The 19th century Victorian era was a bleak time for public health, and even more so for soon to be mothers. It was not a concern for governments, and the rate of death per 1000 births was staggering (175 per 1000 births, and that was without account for race and class differences). In a time where motherhood coupled with being a woman, being a woman often meant grief. This birthed the trend of the female poetess of the Victorian era, and the child elegy became a common way to express this grief.

America experienced profound changes during the mid 1800 's. New technologies and ideas helped the nation grow, while the Civil War ripped the nation apart. During this tumultuous period, two great American writers captured their ideas in poetry. Their poems give us insight into the time period, as well as universal insight about life. Although polar opposites in personality, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman created similar poetry. Dickinson 's "Hope is a Thing with Feathers" and Whitman 's "O Captain

Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!" And Dickinson's "Hope is a Thing with Feathers" America experienced profound changes during the mid 1800’s. New technologies and ideas helped the nation grow, while the Civil War ripped the nation apart. During this tumultuous period, two great American writers captured their ideas in poetry. Their poems give us insight into the time period, as well as universal insight about life. Although polar opposites in personality, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman created

The poem Ballad of Birmingham, by Dudley Randall is about the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama during 1963. The poem begins with a question and ends with a completely different question. It starts with a girl asking her mother a question: “Mother dear, may I go downtown / Instead of out to play, / And march the streets of Birmingham / In a freedom March today?” (lines 1 - 4). It ends with the mother asking: “But, baby, where are you?” (line 32). The author uses literary devices, such as

Abstraction is an old story with the philosophers, but it has been like a new toy in the hands of the artists of our day. Why can 't we have any one quality of poetry we choose by itself? We can have in thought. Then it will go hard if we can 't in practice. Our lives for it. Granted no one but a humanist much cares how sound a poem is if it is only a sound. The sound is the gold in the ore. Then we will have the sound out alone and dispense with the inessential. We do till we make the discovery

On the Historical Integrity of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” In history, many feats are told time and time again and become more grandeur with each utterance, to the point where nearly all original meaning is long lost. As Doctor Manhattan said it in Watchmen, “The illusion vanishes, almost before it has registered” (Gibbons and Moore 26). For example, with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” this certainly is the case. To suggest that the aforementioned

Why did God create both gentle and fearful creatures? Why did God create a world with bloodshed, pain and terror? "The Tyger" by William Blake, written in 1794 and included in his collection "Songs of Innocence and Experience", takes readers on a journey of faith. Through a cycle of unanswered questions, William Blake motivates the readers to question God. Blake sees a necessity for balance in the world, and suggests to the readers that God created a world with a balance of good and evil so that

‘A Birthday’ is an upbeat, jubilant poem about love, written by Christina Rossetti in 1861. While many believe that this love she is expressing so effusively is about a man, I believe that it is about her new-found love for God. Rossetti, after all, was a very religious person. The poem, surprisingly, has an exuberant, lively tone, a great contrast to her other works, which almost always give a sense of gloom and bleakness. Rossetti creates a structured arrangement, allowing the images to flow

"IN MEMORIAM A. H. H” ANALYSIS USING AN ACADEMIC SOURCE WHAT MY SOURCE SAYS: The wanton waste of the nature of potential life. 'fifty seeds often allow only. An effective provides a died in Haarlem early potential waste meaning of the expression. This seems to be the cause of the loss of glycine "shaken, I firmly walk in the" world of the altar on the stairs, the slope in the dark god. In this first his appeal to emotion, it is assumed that the close of the scientific discovery, he vaguely

Shakespeare uses many language techniques, which tells us exactly what Macbeth, is thinking throughout this act. “Is this a dagger I see before me” – is rhetoric language, which emphasizes his amount of faith in himself. This is the first line of the poem and it shows us the mental state of Macbeth as he is slowly slipping into insanity. Rhetoric language Is language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect? Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? – This is also