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An extremely precise and compact lyric, Fire and Ice traces the didactic tone of the speaker compressed into a terse and pithy language. The aim of the poet is aphoristic, where concise statements are packed with general or philosophical truth. The tone of the speaker is undercut with humor, wrath, passion, fury, objective detachment and… Continue reading Tone of the Poem “Fire and Ice”: 2022
Symbolic overtones pervade the laconic atmosphere of the poem. The poem is itself a symbol of foreseeing the ultimate end of the world, punctuated human conditions. The poem is also a symbol of human acceptance of the ultimate and inevitable end, the predestined end that we must and have to embrace. Figures of Speech in… Continue reading “Fire and Ice”- Figures of Speech and Imagery: 2022
The poetic expression relies heavily on the rhyme scheme. “Fire and Ice” rests upon an irregularly interweaving of the pattern: three rhymes and two line lengths into the poem consisting of nine lines. Each line finishes either with an ‘-ire, -ice, or –ate’ rhyme. This particular pattern is similarly used by Dante in his Inferno. The lines are… Continue reading “Fire and Ice” Rhyme Scheme: 2022
This poem is Kipling’s re-telling of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve, narrated in Chapter 4 of The Book of Genesis, the tale of the first murder according to conventional sense of morality. In Genesis Cain, the elder brother, a farmer, finds to his dismay that his offerings to… Continue reading Cain and Abel Summary by Rudyard Kipling: 2022
The poem Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave is completely and solely concerned with the notions of death and a subtle possibility of after-life. The poem dissects the romantic notion associated with death and remembrance. It is presupposed that death causes a permanence of memories of the one who has demised. But Hardy deconstructs… Continue reading Ah are you Digging on My Grave Rhyme Scheme: 2022
The poem Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave is completely and solely concerned with the notions of death and a subtle possibility of after-life. The poem dissects the romantic notion associated with death and remembrance. It is presupposed that death causes a permanence of memories of the one who has demised. But Hardy deconstructs… Continue reading Ah are you Digging on My Grave Themes: 2022
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before… Continue reading Analysis of Foresight by William Wordsworth: 2022
