e-mail one another and not bomb one another
use of parataxis by putting the actions of emailing and bombing next to each other to highlight the vastly differing actions that could result from human interaction.
e-mail one another and not bomb one another
use of parataxis by putting the actions of emailing and bombing next to each other to highlight the vastly differing actions that could result from human interaction.
upwardly mobilebedouin
What does this mean? Is bedouin a group of people?
One keyword that is present in this poem is the other. In the text, Americans view the author as an other, as they come from a different culture. However, the author then points out the fact that these cultures have more in common than they realize.
Why does the author choose to use similes and metaphors, such as "I roll dizzily toward them like the bowling ball of very bad bowler" and "they meet in my head like the walls of the Red Sea crashing together"?
The Second Coming
Reference to Christianity? When Jesus is supposed to return to Earth as the savior of Christians.
blood
Observation: words associated with violence like "anarchy", "blood-dimmed", and "lack all conviction"
hand
Question: Why is hand repeated?
Bethlehem
Observation: Yeats continues to make references to Christianity
falcon
Question: Why does Yeats use animal imagery, such as falcons and lions?