.... persons, recollect the Snow-- First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go--" The innovative diction in this passage creates an eerie atmosphere all by itself. The effect of this passage is reminiscent of the famous macabre monologue at the end of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Dickenson also excellently portrays the restlessness of the mourners in this following passage: "The Feet, mechanical, go round-- Of Ground, or Air, or Ought--" Describing the feet as "mechanical" shows the agitation and displacement of the mourners. Also, in the next line, "Ought" most closely means "Em .....

.... eyes by the sting of an onion. By use of this comparison Rios has given the reader an everyday event that describes the uncontrollable up-welling of emotions one experiences when visiting the wall. Rios uses this technique frequently and effectively throughout this poem. “The Vietnam Wall” tells the story of the poets visit to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D. C.. Rios takes the reader with him on his journey down the wall explaining each detail as he goes from the shape of the wall to the physical appearance of it. An example of this is when: The walk is slow at first, Ea .....

.... she continually gazes out the window. She is offended by his lack of understanding of what she is viewing and the conflict unravels. It seems as though they both have been grieving the loss of their child differently. Any feels her grieving is superior to her husband’s. His anger emerges as he feels that she must be sadder than he is. It is obvious at this point that they haven’t cried together and allowed themselves to vent as a couple. It turns out that he dug the grave himself while she watched. She seems bitter that friends could come to the grave site, share their sympa .....

.... to which this poem was intended is very important because it can drastically change the meaning of the poem, and has therefore been debated among the critics. While most critics believe that the audience changes from men, to women, then to a single woman, or something along those lines, Gregory Machacek believes that the audience remains throughout the poem as "two women who have discovered that they are both lovers of the speaker and have confronted him concerning his infidelity" (1). His strongest argument is that when the speaker says, "I can love her, and her, and you and you," h .....

.... For example, in line 5, Dickinson begins death's journey with a slow, forward movement, which can be seen as she writes, "We slowly drove-He knew no haste." The third quatrain seems to speed up as the trinity of death, immortality, and the speaker pass the children playing, the fields of grain, and the setting sun one after another. The poem seems to get faster and faster as life goes through its course. In lines 17 and 18, however, the poem seems to slow down as Dickinson writes, "We paused before a House that seemed / A Swelling of the Ground-." The reader is given a feeling of life s .....

.... For example, “Her clarion over the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With loving hues and odors plain and hill,” can be paralleled with a woman tending to her garden with love and devotion. Along with a heart-rending tone and personification Shelley uses imagery to describe nature. He refers to the clouds in the sky as “angels of rain an lightning” and the dead leaves of Autumn as “ghosts from and enchanter fleeing,” he is amazed and mesmerized by the wind, and quietly wishes to one day become one with the wind, little did he know that .....

.... by writing them down in verses for people to read for generations to come. By doing so, both of the poets are preserving the beauty of the subjects, which are the young friend of Shakespeare and Keats' "Grecian Urn." Beginning with Sonnet 18, and continuing here and there throughout the first major grouping of sonnets, Shakespeare approaches the problem of mutability and the effects of time upon his beloved friend in a different fashion. Instead of addressing the problem of old age, he emphasises his friend's attributes: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and .....

.... war twists the mind, and also makes you kill people you have no personal vendetta against. In Reconciliation, Whitman shows the devastation of war. In a war, you kill someone and even if you win, you lose. Whitman describes a man mourning over the death of his foe. He rejoices over the ultimate death of war "Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must...be utterly lost." He also feels great remorse over his so called enemy's death "For my enemy...a man divine as myself is dead." He then shows his love for the enemy "I...bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white fac .....

.... she describes it as her house. In the end she is looking back, and sees how centuries have passed, yet she isn't passing by anymore, and to her this hundred years seems as no time at all. Finally she accepts her death, and is able to pass into eternity. To her death wasn't harsh like some see it, but a kindly, gentle soul, taking her for a carriage ride to her final home. A child experiences death much differently than an adult. Children aren't quite able to see death as the sad even that it is. "First Death in Nova Scotia" tells of a young boys death, and his cousins view of it. We .....

.... Ages" A. Malin's domination of this act 1. Serves as a guide 2. Controls the characters through his introduction of each age B. Others support Malin's theories by drawing from past, present, and potential future experiences C. The ages 1. The first age a. Malin asks the reader to "Behold the infant" b. Child is "helpless in cradle and / Righteous still" but already has a "Dread in his dreams" 2. The second age a. Youth, as Malin describes it b. Age at which man realizes "his life-bet with a lying .....