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The speaker recalls with adoration <adulation?> the lovely things she has watched that have unwittingly seeped  her soul in color with every passing day. Stanza 2: saffron sunset clouds larkspur ( meaning ) mountains* fenceless miles of plain* (fields, prairies) golden-green hillsides*, shining unearthly after rain Stanza 3: nights of blue and pearl simile - long smooth beaches yellow as sunburnt wheat others - line of foam that creams and hisses, enticing weary feet  (transferred epithet) Stanza 4: emeralds sunset-hearted opals Asian marble veined with scarlet flame cool green jade misty and azure-stained moonstones Stanza 5: almond trees in bloom oleanders* wide purple sea of plain-land (meaning field) gorgeous with a lovely poison - the evil Darling pea* She calls on these images to help her dream when she is tired, like how in stanza 6, lemon, pink, or faintest, coolest lilac dawn-lit skies float on her soothed eyes. No n...

Hopkins is fangirling over the kestrel - extreme Romanticism minion = subordinate/darling dauphin = nobleman (title) Hopkins is observing the bird on a brilliant morning, where the bird is the lord of the morning dappled = spotted dawn-drawn = morning brings him in riding in the wind = hovering in gusty winds; it does not just fly - it rolls metaphor of humility and contro in your own terms not always the one who's highest that's in control fact that he is witness to this bird lets him explore its inscape and the instress - it is an individual experience compared to a horse (reins) the windhover rules the sky with just two foldable wings lives in the present = unaffected, gliding smoothly in the roughest, harshest winds "My heart in hiding/Strirred for a bird" = gave up poetry, didn't write for years and then a bird comes along and makes him sit up and take notice again achieve, mastery = master of himself, without pretense or self-conscio...

I O wild West Wind, though breath of Autumn's being personification, alliteration, apostrophe Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead unseen presence because the wind is tangible but not visible Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing dead leaves compared to ghosts. West wind compared to exorcist (enchanter) who drives away ghosts Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, the color of fallen leaves Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, leaves, unwanted, decayed elements Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low In the last line of the previous stanza, Shelley begins to speak about the wind as a chariot who delivers to the dark, cold earth, the winged seeds, where they simply lie on the ground, scattered, dormant, cold and wet under the snow, hence: Each like a corpse within its grave, until Buried, like a corpse, under the snow, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow your sister, the ...

<3 <3 <3 Focus. They're both convinced Meaning perhaps what they're convinced about is wrong That a sudden passion joined them. Self-explanatory - saw her/him needed her/him loved her/him Such certainty is beautiful But uncertainty is more beautiful still. This uncertainty is what the whole poem is about, as we shall see: Since they'd never met before, they're sure that there'd been nothing between them. The two lovers are under the impression that in their whole loves, they have never once met before, and so could not have had any kind of association or relationship with each other. But what's the word from the streets, staircases, hallways - perhaps they've passed each other by a million times? Now Wislawa points out that they could have met a million times and not known it - on the streets, staircases, hallways. I want to ask them if they don't remember - a moment face to face in some revolving door? perhaps a 'sorr...