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of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...

(Brooks 9-15). The narrator is illustrating how the reader, or listener, who is likely Black would not have believed them had they...

reached/ was you" (Brooks 2-8). In this the reader is subtly illustrating how society, white American society perhaps, has control...

has planted a bomb. He sees a woman in a yellow jacket go in, then a man in dark glasses comes out; then two men in jeans talk for...

also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...

William Blakes "The Divine Image" have little in common, as the first poem relates a mystical enchantment of a knight with a super...

that this is "Her hardest hue to hold." The budding of plants at this time in the early spring is the shortest part of the seas...

Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...

and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses...

has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...

reflects both the poet and the readers changing perspectives that can only be achieved through a rational and nonprejudiced examin...

powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...

says Sandburg, none of that matters; what matters is that the grass will eventually cover up the battlefields, the dead, the blood...

my brain. Never show fear (Free verse) Animals and small children know when youre afraid. They growl and bite, or cry and fight ...

to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...

wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...

are happy and playing and skipping and singing, that seems to make sense but is very lilting and nonsensical in many ways. This is...

Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...

be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...

she is seen as pretty and thus she finds "Consummation at last" (Piercy 6). In this poem we see how it is the ideal media image ...

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...

educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...

died. The poet feels that the entire world, in fact, should be in mourning as even "public doves" should have "crepe bows" around ...

for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...

denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...

of sounds within any language, the speakers in a language community all feel that certain sounds either "the same" or "different" ...

expression in the sections of the poem where the persona deals with happy memories, and the sharpness and abruptness of those wher...