The poet wants to show the meaning of life. He sheds light on the fact of death and the brevity of our life. The rhetorical question shows that the poet belittles man's life because it is short and transient. The word "division" shows that man's happiness is short and temporary. The word "short" shows the brevity of the earthly life.
On the other hand in “Let me not the marriage …” Shakespeare talks about how marriage should be proof for love and not a service to others. He talks about how love never changes no matter what the circumstances. Throughout both poems there is a very prominent use of personification. Shakespeare utilizes things like Death to personify and illustrate how love is not at the mercy of time. “Love’s not Time’s fool”.
He was making zero progress. Bradbury relates this to Montag’s desperation to memorize the book in his hands, despite the fact that he knows that books are illegal. Sadly, he is greatly distracted by the train radio, making all his efforts futile. “The train radio vomited upon Montag…the people were pounded into submission…‘Lilies of the field’ ‘Denham’s’ ‘Lilies, I said!’” (Bradbury, 79). In this case, the sand is the truth, the information he seeks from the book.
Her relationship with are husband is empty and without meaning. The bowl itself is empty and meaningless. Andrea is always worried about losing the bowl which symbolizes her fear of losing her lover and her husband. The bowl represents love: “The bowl was just a bowl. But she did not believe that for a second.
“when you look at me you’re far away/ when you look at the clouds you are near.” Cheng recognizes that, no matter how much he feels for the other, he cannot in good consciousness keep them. Part of the reason he feels this way towards You is the reason he cannot keep You there; Cheng loves the dreamer. To truly love You, he must allow You to desire, to dream, and to move on into those clouds. You, in this story, is the destitute Dao, searching for meaning and faith. Cheng see’s that struggle and wants nothing but to help, but the only way to help is to
Your Smile Fades In The Summer “Fate fell short this time, your smile fades in the summer, place your hand in mine, I'll leave when I wanna.” In the song, “Feeling This” by, Blink 182 it stresses the point of beautiful things not lasting forever. Because of the sinful nature of man, nothing in our world lives on forever no matter how beautiful it may be. In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” Robert Frost claims that nothing lasts forever. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” tells a story about appreciating the things people have in life, and also about the reality of losing them. Throughout the poem the poet shares aspects of nature and life and how in an instant they will be gone.
Literary Commentary In “July Man”, Margaret Avison delineates a bleak mood of sorrow and nostalgia for the beauty of the past through intricate diction, specifically the choice of adjectives, and sound. The morose image portrayed by the poet’s words reinforces the theme of the decomposition of nature and humanity. The structure of the poem is chaotic and spontaneous as there is no specific rhyme scheme and the length of the lines randomly alternate. Being a free verse poem perfectly fits the theme of decomposition for no order or structured standards are followed anymore and all aspects are breaking down, including the poem’s own stanzas. The stanzas are of extreme natures with the first one being nineteen lines long and the following one
However, in any event, the power of Wordsworth's poetry is undeniable and the feelings that he brings forth are remarkable. As Matthew Sneider, a professor at Chapman University says, "Poems like this evoke the speaker's peculiarly mingled feelings of grief and awe be leaving out the narrative details one would expect to encounter in conventional elegies and laments. Who is Lucy? Why did she die?" (Sneider 25).
5-9). He prepares himself to die content with hating god the anger that was unleashed upon him with because it is not due to any wrong he has done. It would simply be the vindictiveness of a being more powerful than him. In this stanza he capitalizes “Powerfuller”, which transitions away from disrespect and gives recognition of the power religion has. In the final sestet Harding poses the question “And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?” (Harding l. 14), which he answers by saying that death and time are indifferent as to who they grace with happiness or depression.
I love that kind of inherently theatrical drama. And then on top of that, the words he does write are heartstoppingly beautiful poetry. To me, the old joke that Waiting for Godot is a play in which “nothing happens, twice” is inherently untrue. On the contrary, what doesn’t happen in this play? Everything happens.