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In the poetry of love and desire, the concept of wildness can often have connotations of unbridled passion ' a very sensual and physical way of losing oneself in lust. However, here Wyatt takes the word 'wild', with all of its overtones in such poetry, to instead represent a change in a relationship from mutual trust to frantic fear. Here, the hunting imagery that is so often a theme in his, and other, Petrarchan-influenced poetry is inverted in the first two lines: instead of he as a masculine figure doing the hunting, 'they' 'seek' the speaker, and come 'stalking in [his] chamber'. However, those that were once tame, who once sought him out in a very deliberate way, have now become 'wild', and almost ...
"Porphyria's Lover" is an exhilarating love story given from a lunatic's point of view. It is the story of a man who is so obsessed with Porphyria that he decides to keep her for himself. The only way he feels he can keep her, though, is by killing her. Robert Browning's poem depicts the separation of social classes and describes the "triumph"...
The seventeenth-century poet John Donne has gone down in the history of popular culture for three lines: 'No man is an island,' 'Ask not for whom the bell tolls -- it tolls for thee', and the opening of a poem called 'Death be not proud'. This last came from a collection of Donne's poems which came to be called the 'Holy Sonnets.' The name is possi...
The Romantic period has numerous characteristics that help to distinguish it from other literary periods. A large majority of the pieces found in this period have at least one of the distinctive elements. Edgar Allan Poe uses a few of these elements to put a time frame on his short story, "The Black Cat". Poe begins his short story by saying th...
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." (Edmund Burke). In order to stop evil and malicious acts from occurring, the people whose responsibility it is to enforce the laws must step up and stop these terrible acts. By ignoring the evil and not attempting to stop the evil, the good can harm themselves or o...
The poem 'bushed' by Earle Birney explores how a man is tired with striving to live a life of struggle. This is seen by the use of pathetic fallacy, and the uses of personification in the poem seen. The harsh environment he is seen to be placed in shows that he faces hardships in life. The setting suggests the mood of the character, this is seen...
