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| William Butler Yeats, "The Circus Animals' Desertion" |
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| Talks of the downfall of his poetic career, enjoys the imagination of his poems rather than the emblems that they stood for |
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| Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar" |
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| Jar placed on a hill on Tennessee. The wilderness rose around it and was no longer wild. Beat nature, but still dull and bare, only the illusion of beating nature. |
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| H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Wine Bowl" |
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| William Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper" |
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| Observer is listening to a Maiden, does not know the meaning of her song, but nonetheless is captivated by it. |
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| W.H. Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts" |
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| People disregard death as they are busy with their own lives, just as the people in the painting of the fall of icarus. |
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| W.H. Auden, "The Shield of Achilles" |
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| Thetis wanted glorified shield of ancestry and themes of Greek heroism, but Hephaestos painted images of war and darkness of life |
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| Judith Wright, "Request to a Year" |
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| Grandmother sketches a scene of her son in danger of falling into a waterfall and her daughter tries to catch him; nothing could be done on her part, so the speaker admires the firmness with which she painted |
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| Robert Lowell, "For the Union Dead" |
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| The racism felt during the Civil War still resonates within the community, 100 years later (just after WWII), like a "fishbone" stuck in the throat of the city. Technological progress, but society seems the same. |
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| Adrienne Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" |
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| The Tiger's that she creates woven on a panel are fearless and proud (art transcends); whereas she has been worn down by ordeals of life (marriage). |
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| Ted Hughes, "Platform One" |
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| Bronze statue is described as alive, missing his train because he is busy reading something. His bronze mind is with the dead (statue made to honor those that gave up their lives in WWI and II) |
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| Derek Mahon, "Girls on the Bridge" |
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| Girl's standing innocently on a bridge, unaware of the pains of life. Edward Munch's paintings, also the Scream, here in the poem depicted as the breaking point of innocence, upon which your life will be surrounded by confusion and despair. Ends with the dream that grandmothers had once lived a life on a bridge and knew no pain. |
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| Jorie Graham, "At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body" |
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| Series on the Last Judgement, angel's entering bodies of men and women who are hurrieldy wandering, looking for happiness. Able to examine and cut, with beauty and care his own son's body. ???? |
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| Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Lie" |
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| Speaking of refuting much of what people know, ex. rulers are actual doing the will of the people, nature decays, etc |
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| Philip Frenau, "To Sir Toby" |
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| Injustices of slavery, blessed nature wrought by the poor laborer's hands, torchered and treated poorly. Natives taken to Hell in the western isles. Hard to escape, even from their own kind. |
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| While monarchy and war are things to be feared, the institute of marriage is being defiled. |
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| A badger is taunted and chased, but still fights back, and is eventually worn down by the mob and dies. |
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| Robinson Jeffers, "Shine, Perishing Republic" |
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| The cycle of life is beautiful, by humanity corrupts it, catching even God when he walked on Earth. |
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| Wilfred Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est" |
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| Rebukes Dulce Et Decorum est, because going to war is nothing but sweet, and sheds light on the reality that war is painful and cruel. |
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| Does not have ill will towards parents, but does not know where he belongs. |
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| Countee Cullen, "Incident" |
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| A girl goes to Baltimore, is called a nigger, and the half a year spent there, all that is remembered is the racism. |
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| A.D. Hope, "Advice to Young Ladies" |
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| Ladies who spoke their inquiring minds were punished, while men who fought and argued and did crimes were not nearly as noticed. The disgrace of being a woman made genius a crime. So blind in censoring women that men are allowed to do as they wish. |
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| Donald Justice, "Counting the Mad" |
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| We are quick to put people in an asylum, even the "ordinary" man, who himself despairs that he is ordinary. |
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