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 Leda and the swan: A strange meeting. Nefertari Vazquez Gómez The poem introduces a characteristic of the encounter between the two characters in the very first line giving it the adjective sudden , that can also describe the shudder in the third stanza. Then, along the first two quatrains, the action is described, but we have no subject pronoun, we have great wings belonging to the god or beast, a staggering girl , whose thighs are caressed by dark webs . Interesting to notice that when the voice talks about the lady it uses human parts of the body, even the word body , and when it refers to the god, it uses, logically parts of an animal body. But also, the fact that the god is strong, glorious and the lady is surrounded by negative adjectives , related to weakness, as opposites. Then we can see she (her nape ) is caught in his bill . And it is until this point that a personal pronoun appears: He holds her helpless breast , another interesting thing to notice at a langu...

An Irishman  Forsees his dead: Yeat's embodiment of the unity of being Nefertari Vázquez Gómez. This poem is a verbal embodiment of Yeats’ oumo universale in various aspects. This poem was written at the end of the Great War and talks about and it is told from the perspective of an Irish airmen before his dead in the sky. It is widely accepted that the poem is based on Robert Gregory, to commemorate him. In this poem Yeats’ imagines Robert Gregory’s final moments before his dead in the sky. Considering this background, the poem, somehow, approaches, war. One of the components of a uomo universale. Considering that a uoumo universal is an ideal man , Robert Gregory, being the Airmen, is idealized since the very beginning since, in the title he is gifted with foresight, by this he is given a sort of God-like omniscience . Reinforced in the first like, since the stress is in the word know . Then the place is given in the second line, and the vowel sound takes us to the sky amon...

The time and light in  GLOIRE DE DIJON  poem . The poem is about a voice that watches a lady while she bathes. SHE seems to be the object of the poem, the object of observation. SHE seems to bathe slowly, she is taking her time. In the first stanza she only loses prominence when the voice suddenly pays attention to the sunlight , the light will become now a protagonist of the poem and so will be the time. The first line in the poem settles the scene “in the morning” . If we consider the morning as a symbol, it may symbolize purity or a promise. But more important, it is a specific time of the day with a particular light. For Monet, the effects of light on a subject (the lady) became as important as the object itself. Moreover, the sun is the sun is the quintessencial light source   and the different times of the day are the most explicit representation of time in nature. The morning, being the first moment in the day after the darkness of night, may symbolize youth . ...