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beta.poetryfoundation.org beta.poetryfoundation.org
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as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body.
Tis line expresses that the "road" to Ithaka can be fun and adventurous.
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by then what these Ithakas mean.
This line expresses a hidden meaning behind the word Ithaka in the way that they use it.
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Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon
These people/creatures are things that Odysseus encountered.
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- Sep 2024
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english.emory.edu english.emory.edu
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a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry
This line shows how easily people were distracted from the unfortunate events happening right in front of them.
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allpoetry.com allpoetry.com
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
This line has a sort of rhyming pattern, and it gives it a kind of airy and song-like feel to the rest of the poem.
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The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
This line shows that the narrator is so depressed that they're just wanting to get rid of everything.
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For nothing now can ever come to any good.
This line shows that the narrator of this poem is very pessimistic in the story due to their lack of thinking anything good will come from now on.
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readgoodpoetry.blogspot.com readgoodpoetry.blogspot.com
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Singing Blue Moon and Paper Moon and Mack the Knife, and Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen.
This part expresses the narrators more saddened feelings towards her current situation even though she is currently trying to forget about it by using music.
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All of it gone as we struggle to remember the words.
This shows that the narrator is trying to forget and distract herself from all of her problems by listening and sing to music with presumably her friends.
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Forgetting the rent, the kids, the men, the other woman.
This gives a sadder and more hidden depressing feeling to the rest of the poem after this.
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scottbevill.net scottbevill.net
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Sorrow and longing walked beside him, wintered in him, kept wearing him down after Nithad hampered and restrained him, lithe sinew-bonds on the better man. That passed over, this can too.
This explaining how the negative emotions that impacted the person's life easily went away.
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- Aug 2024
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scottbevill.net scottbevill.net
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so for your arrogance I am broken at last, I who had lived unconscious, who was almost forgot;
She bluntly describes her pain towards this current situation through this statement.
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yet for all your arrogance and your glance, I tell you this:
She tends to repeat lines similar to this one, and it expresses her hurt for his actions and adds a betrayed feeling to the entire poem.
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