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The Power of Temptation Temptation can be defined as a strong urge to do something usually bad or resulting in a harmful effect. The deeper people get into the temptation the harder it is to get out. It can be compared to digging a hole with no ladder to get out, the deeper you dig the harder it will be to get out. This idea is seen in many pieces of text including the following poems. “A Poison Tree” by William Blake and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas, both convey the message that people must be able to fight temptation and control themselves in moments of great distress. Through “A Poison Tree” Blake conveys that people must be able to fight temptation and control themselves in moments of great distress. The use …show more content…
The use of a hyperbole expresses this theme because it develops the power at which people must control themselves and their emotions. In the first stanza about fighting as hard as one can for life the speaker states, “burn and rave” (2). The purpose for this line in the poem is too accentuate the importance it is to fight for one's life in times of near death or crisis and to push through the illness or problem that plagues oneself. The author wants his father to literally put in every single bit of energy he has left to keep on going and fight the disease even though he may want to give up. Another device Blake uses is repetition because it shows how important it is by constantly repeating it and getting it caught in people's minds. When revealing the deep feelings he has for his father's sickness the speaker states, “Rage, rage” (3, 9, 15, 19). The reason the author uses and repeats a word such as rage is because it is such a powerful word that pierces the reader and puts a sense of confidence and courageous in oneself. With the tone the repeated word rage brings an eerie confidence that is meant to encourage oneself to like the author states, rage against the problem or illness that is holding one …show more content…
These poems both use literary devices to convey this point in an understandable manner. Both authors show someone who feels very strongly about a subject and is barely controlling themselves from either letting death's grasp take over or exploding on an enemy. The authors also want the reader to understand that even if it takes the fiber of one's being that people must hold onto that sanity and reality of controlling themselves in desperate
The poem “A Poison Tree” by William Blake and the story, “The Cask of Amontillado” written by Edgar Allan Poe writes about revenge. Overall both the poem and the short story share how they developed the overall theme, and to express the act, each of the writings use dramatic irony and sensory
While the poem's situation is simple, its theme is not. Stafford appears to be intimating that life is precious and fragile; however, nothing so clearly discloses these attributes of life as confrontation with death. Furthermore, the very confrontations that engender appreciation of life's delicacies force action-all to frequently callous action.
result it has on people. In all three poems the last line of the poems
One must look at this poem and imagine what is like to live thru this experience of becoming so tired of expecting to die everyday on the battlefield, that one starts to welcome it in order to escape the anticipation. The effects of living day in and day out in such a manner creates a person who either has lost the fear of death or has become so frighten of how they once lived the compensate for it later by living a guarded life. The one who loses the fear for death ends up with this way of living in which they only feel alive when faced with death. The person in this poem is one who has lost their fear of death, and now thrives off coming close to it he expresses it when he states “Here is the adrenaline rush you crave, that inexorable flight, that insane puncture” (LL.6-7). What happens to this persona when he leaves the battlefield? He pushes the limit trying to come close to death to feel alive; until they push
Though the way it relates to people in the 19th century and the way it relates to the modern world greatly differs, the symbolism in the poem and shift in tone throughout it shows a great appeal to human nature, and how desperate one can be to change it. The symbolism in the poem paints a ghastly picture of a man’s life, falling apart as he does his best, and worst, to keep it safe from himself. In lines 1 through 8 (stanza one), he gives a brief description of an incident in his life where things have gone wrong. “When the tiger approaches can the fast-fleeting hind/Repose trust in his footsteps of air?/No! Abandoned, he sinks into a trance of despair,” He uses these lines to show the lack of control he has over his actions, how his will to change his circumstances has weakened.
"A Poison Tree" by William Blake is a short poem about life in general. The poem teaches its readers a valuable lesson about anger. Anger has power over ones’ mind and actions.
Firstly I will be exploring metaphor as it is used so much in this poem. The first metaphor which I will examine is “Haunting Flares” on line 3 of the first stanza. This quote has so many connotations, my first opinion on this was that the flares which the enemy are firing to light up the battlefield are said to be representing the souls of the soldiers fallen comrades. This could also be said to represent the power the enemy has on their own mortality as the bright flares would light up the battle-field exposing everything to their view, this indicates that the enemy always seem to have power upon the soldiers, almost godly. The second metaphor which I will explore is: “An ecstasy of fumbling” in line one of the second stanza.
All the poems you have read are preoccupied with violence and/or death. Compare the ways in which the poets explore this preoccupation. What motivations or emotions do the poets suggest lie behind the preoccupation?
The imagery of nature and humanity intermingling presents Blake's opinion on the inborn, innate harmony between nature and man. The persona of the poem goes on to express the `gentle streams beneath our feet' where `innocence and virtue meet'. This is where innocence dwells: synchronization with nature, not synchronization with industry where `babes are reduced to misery, fed with a cold usurous hand' as in the experienced version of `Holy Thursday'. The concept of the need for the individual's faithfulness to the laws of nature and what is natural is further reiterated in `the marriage of heaven and hell' in plate 10 where Blake states `where man is not, nature is barren'. The most elevated form of nature is human nature and when man resists and consciously negates nature, `nature' becomes `barren'. Blake goes on to say `sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires'. This harks back to `the Songs of Innocence' `A Cradle Song' where the `infants smiles are his own smiles'. The infant is free to act out its desires as it pleases. It is unbound, untainted. Blake's concern is for the pallid and repressed, subjugated future that awaits the children who must `nurse unacted desires' and emotions in this new world of industrialisation. Despairingly, this is restated again in `the mind-forg'd manacles' of `London'. The imagery of the lambs of the `Songs of Innocence' `Introduction' is developed in `the Chimney Sweeper' into the image of `Little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, that curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd'.
Blake gives the image that the child will have to suffer just like his mother is doing. He blaming the rich men who might use the duty of a prostitute and then get married and pass on diseases to their partners. The word "plagues" is used to symbolize the lives of the rich and how their actions affect the life of all the innocent people involved. No matter how harsh this poem is in its message, it has relevance in modern times where the poverty is discrepancies in incomes whether you are rich or poor.
the poet is trying to portray the fragility of a life, as it is created with the intent to be lost (death
is said that the only way to fight a temptation is to succumb to it
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Temptation is a vigorous compulsion or longing to do something. It is a form of inducement, most often leading to unscrupulous or nefarious behavior. According to (“Bible Teachings about Man,” n.d., para 1) temptation is defined as “a state experienced when a person thinks thoughts, consider...
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