Maryzyourhero

• Last seen on Feb 13 10:19 AM 2006. Member since February 14, 2006.
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• on Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold, on July 9, 2004

  some seem to believe that this is a poem about love, however a different perspetive would suggest that this poem is about hope for the world. the first stanza of the poem serves for establishing the mood, more so the first stanza focuses on the beauty of the sea. if anyone has ever been to the ocean and closed their eyes to listen to the waves crash, you would certainly understand the beauty of the first stanza. more importantly, notice the structure of the first stanza. notice that each lines vary in length, rather like the constant pulling forward and backward of the ocean wouldnt you say? the next two stanzas continue to reinforce the universal feelings that the sea evokes. arnold clearly shows that he sea is constant through time (Sophocles) and culture (Sea of Faith). the last stanza is what can throw people off when deciding the meaning of this poem, the word "love" is sometimes thought to mean love between two individuals, however, arnold speaks of a more universal timely love between all human kind. he shows that love between humans must stand true depsite the fact that the world is falling apart - which he shows in the 5-7th lines. "ignorant armies clash by night" are ignorant people who fight for no apparent reason. after all isnt that what wars are all about? what are we fighting for? money is it? in case anyones noticed money is only valued because we as humans have given it value. arnold shows us that though there is strife in human kind, we need to be able to hold together and bind together in love, and make sure that love is constant... constant as the sea.
• on The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, on July 9, 2004

  this is a great example of poe and his tendencies of being a dark romantic to show his audience exactly what presides within the human mind. the raven in this poem represents more than a simple bird who speaks to a man in an erie all knowing manner. poe uses this raven to represent the darkness of the human mind. this is most apparent because of the fact that this raven appears to anger the main character of this poem with the simple reptition of "nevermore". why? because it is this repitition that reminds the main character that he shall nevermore be with his lenore. and it is the reminder that eats away at him, not to mention the fact that no other characters are introduced within this poem, this clearly shows that only the main character can see this raven, therefore only the main character can see the darkness of loneliness within his own mind.
• on Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats, on July 9, 2004

  yeats is clearly creating an atomosphere of longing from the beginning of the poem, showing that the speaker has a longing for the past which no longer exists because of disturbances of change. it is because of the change in the life of the speaker that he wants to return to his city of byzantium because this takes him back to a better time, back to a time when things were more simple. in application to everyday life, one would notice that no one takes change the way that it should be taken, most of us spend more time lingering on the past rather than looking ahead for what the future has to offer. many of us are like this man, if you think about it, everyone of us has a time that we want to go back to.