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The Good Life
Nature/Astronomy
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Author compares himself to objects like clouds and expresses envy at clouds comparing them to happy people. Perhaps the writer wishes to be one of those stars with their head held high in happiness, but the truth is between the stars lie millions of miles of empty space.
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
BY WALT WHITMAN
This poem is a wonderful analysis on the appreciation of beauty and the different ways one can do so. To appreciate something that is beautiful also means to understand the complex parts to it. While understanding something like that may be boring it is essential to appreciate something that beautiful,
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Emotion
Sadness
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Harlem
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
A commentary on the inequality of inequity in America, Dreams unfulfilled creates regret which has a heavy feeling on the soul, this makes your physical state feel weak as well. Regret is something that can weigh heavily and to prevent this requires courage.
John Donne, "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God"
The authors willingness to let this person absolutely ruin him but also describing them as their salvation or recreation is a very intense, especially since they are already taken
Mary Wroth "My pain, still smother'd in my grieved breast"
It seems like the efforts that they are giving of striving for only gets harder with every step, not unlike walking in mud or sand. They sink with each step of progress until they lose.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372)
BY EMILY DICKINSON
Dickinson asks questions to shift her perspective on her heartbreak. Was it them that created boredom in the interactions and how long ago was it? These questions tend to help with coping with rejection or rejected feelings, to justify and lessen the pain that comes with it.
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Love
Reciprocated Love
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How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Unending love is that pure is hard to find, this is a question that this poem is trying to ask, how is it possible to provide this type of love and to what extent does the person loving have to go?
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
BY T. S. ELIOT
Love can be tricky, sometimes we fail to understand why we love something so much. The speaker trying to rationalize what is attracting the writer to their object of affection. Including senses like smell, and sight, as reasons to want. Racking their brain to approach this affection for this person.
Knowledge
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Wisdom
Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man"
This poem attempts to make an analogy on human behavior and astronomy, comparing the distance the stars to different people's behavior. This feeling to find how and why people are different is found even today and our search for knowledge is one of those outlets.
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Time
Fragility
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Counter-Attack
BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON
The fragility of life and horror of war is evident here the only thing driving these men is their fear of death and being branded insubordinate, so they listen to their commanding officer who order them into certain death. Even if their officer himself is scared to death.
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Longevity
Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name
BY EDMUND SPENSER
Poem describes the fragility and limited time span of life by comparing herself to the writing washed away by the wave, the man refutes this and explains that we immortalize ourselves through our creations.
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