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old and his first book at age 13 (Yarborough). In short, he was a prodigy who might have been destined for greater things, had he ...

for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...

means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...

Hobson would never die as long as he was on the move. Until his revolution was at stay, in the sense of a ball which has stopped s...

calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...

of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...

this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...

sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...

yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...

his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...

and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...

use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...

as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...

blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...

speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...

illustration of the narrator stopping and examining the two roads we are truly seeing what it before him. This sense of imagery...

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...

with its personae, while feeling extraneous or beside the point; more than sympathy or judgment, these alternatives lead readers t...

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...

is T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Through the adroit use of metaphor Eliot invites the reader to undertake a jo...

writes of black experience: Once when I walked into a room My eyes would see out the one or two black faces For contact or reass...

San Fransico but he would grow up primarily in Massachusetts where he, his siblings, and his mother would move to after the death ...

indeed, cannot, be overlooked. A rare taste of boundless joy is exemplified in Wild nights, wild nights. Perhaps written o...

since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...

refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...