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Dec 19, 2016 · Rossetti’s “Christmas Eve” is a poem of anticipation: at the very end of Advent, the speaker looks forward to the hour that Christmas begins. The poem opens with three comparisons involving imagery. The first two are paradoxes in which “darkness” becomes light and “chillness” becomes warmth.
Tiny Tim has a sacrificial function: his purpose is to redeem Scrooge by revealing how his death was partly causes by a lack of money and could have been prevented. Repetition of the adjective 'little' emphasises Tim's (and children like him) vulnerability.
When Marla's dog runs away on Christmas Eve, she must team up with her ex-boyfriend Max to find him.
In summary, first: Hardy recalls how at midnight on Christmas Eve, as the anniversary of the birth of Christ arrives, he sat with other people by the fire, and they pictured the oxen kneeling down in their ‘strawy pen’, paying homage to the birth of Christ.
Love’s “prognosis” is contrasted with its “diagnosis” by the speaker. Therefore, the speaker loves the way relationships begin, but hates the way they end. Because love begins, it must end. The use of the couplets mimics this conundrum as Hadfield shows you cannot have one without the other.
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‘Christmas’ by John Betjeman describes the traditions of Christmas time and how they compare to the story of the birth of Christ. The poem begins with the speaker describing the lead-up to Christmas and how everything in a church is decorated for Advent.
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Aug 14, 2017 · The central theme of the poem revolves around Eve and her anguish and pain as she faces the bitter consequences of her sin, eating the forbidden fruit herself and offering it to Adam. She has to sit and weep beside the body of her dead son who was murdered by another of her son.
