The Haunted Oak - Analyzing details 1. What details does the poet reveal in the first stanza about the condition of the tree? The poet reveals that even though the oak tree is old and beautiful, and even casts a cool shade for him, the poet is scared of it and the memories it brings. 2. What causes the "gurgling moan" in line 10?
The Minnesota winter is described by Dexter as “shut down like the white lid of a box.” Dexter’s dissatisfaction echoes this, as he yearns for the “glittering things” but is living amongst the plain. Dexter’s dreams, like the lid of a box, shut down and close. After learning of Judy’s marriage and realizing the charm and vitality he was so drawn to and inspired by is gone, his emotions vanish, and his dreams turn into memories. The green, open-spaced golf course days turn into cold, harsh, lonesome ones. Only winter can represent how Dexter’s life changed into a bitter loneliness.
The last line of this stanza connotes that the athlete is within a cemetery: “Townsman of a stiller town.” (L.8) The word stiller creates a sense of complete silence, a trait associated with the deceased. In the third stanza a simile is used to show the comparison between a laurel and a rose: “And early though the laurel grows, It withers quicker than the rose.” (L.11-12) The comparison is used to show the endurance of a laurel, a symbol of glory and victory; to the endurance of a rose. The effect of this is it connotes the idea of the athlete’s glory slowly disappearing because he is dead. The fourth stanza begins with a metaphor for death: “Eyes the shady night has shut.” (L.13) This
The burning fire blows out and the movie fades to black and white symbolising what was then and the dark times that the Jewish people will be facing. Also the black and white symbolises the documentary feel to the movie. The realism of the events that happened on the movie and what actually happened during Hitler’s reign. Candles represent mortality, the flame burning down the wax is like saying you can't run from the inevitable, which is death. However at the end scene when we once again see the burning candle, but this time the inevitability has been overcome through Oscars actions, as there are 1100 Jews saved.
Shakespeare's reference to "yellow leaves" shows that the person is in the fall of their life, approaching winter, considering leaves don't change until the end of fall and the boughs "shake against the cold." He then references an absence when he speaks of the "late" birds. His choice to use the word "late" and the past tense "sang," show that something isn't there anymore, or missing creating a feeling of emptiness. This feeling of emptiness combined with the metaphors implying a fast approaching winter, seem to relay a harshness and maybe that the person has missed something in life. The person's death is constantly coming near, as is alluded to by his metaphors with twilight and a sunset.
When late at night the child's body is returned Heaney sees this as “the corpse” (not a person). Back to top This contrasts wonderfully with the final section of the poem, where he is alone with his brother. Note the personal pronouns “him”, “his”, “he” - as opposed to “the corpse”. The calm mood is beautifully shown in the transferred epithet (“Snowdrops/And candles soothed the bedside” - literally they soothed the young Heaney). The flowers are a symbol in the poem, but also in reality for the family (a symbol of new life, after death).
Have No Fear, Death is Here! In the following three poems, "That Time of Year", "Crossing the Bar", and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"; they portray a positive view of death to help the reader reconcile dying. In “That Time of Year”, the poet Alfred Tennyson prepared his friend, not for the approaching literal death of his body, but the metaphorical death of his youth and passion. “In me though see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon must expire,” this quote from the poem explains how the poet says he is the ember lying on the dying flame of youth, and that as the death proceeds, his youth will finally expire. Not all can be forever young, but sooner or later must begin to age and every breath you take, you draw closer to the end.
The speaker characterize the nature of what he perceives to be his old age. He tells the beloved that his age is like a “time of year,” almost late autumn, when the leaves have almost completely fallen from the trees, and the weather has grown cold, and the birds have left their branches where they used to sang. He then says that his age is like late twilight, “As after sunset fadeth in the west,” and as the sun goes down and the night approaches, he goes to sleep, which the speaker likens to “Death’s second self.". The speaker compares himself to the glowing remnants of a fire, which lies “on the ashes of his youth” that is, like a candle once enabled it to burn thus which will soon be consumed “by
The poet has described the gruesome reality of the first nuclear explosion and its power to destroy the whole human race. This bombing wiped out two cities and millions died. However, Japan endured the calamity, rose up, (bit by bit my strength/Seemed to revive) and rebuilt their shattered city and their world. Thus, we can conclude that “A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945” is an anti-war poem. It talks about
One of the most interesting uses of this is when he recounts how the 'lofty trees' when 'barren of leaves' cannot serve their purpose in shading the livestock. Metaphorically this could be said to refer to how youth is seen to be purposeful but as time passes and the youth become the aged their purpose ceases. This interests me as it adds further depth to the sonnet and allows you to enjoy it on many levels. However a thing i really admire about Shakespeare is his ability to put structure on unstructured ideas. The theme of transience and the enviably of death is quite a difficult idea to play with it as it can become emotional and lose its sense of clarity.