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result is that he was able to craft a poem such as "Assisi" which has a gentle yet pointed grace and, as Brodie points out, a "dec...

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...

heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...

imagery and emotional intensity alone, but by considering the social context that they grew out of and how they address it, a whol...

poem. The rhyming pattern is alternately free form and occasional standard abab. It follows the pattern of iambic pentameter of ...

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

inner soul of a woman to be appreciated for the ways in which she makes the lives of her family easier and more pleasant. A native...

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...

themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...

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

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

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

shipwreck (Anonymous, 2002; Junaidul, 2000). Wordsworth worked out his grief over this event in several poems, most notably the "E...

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

exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...

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

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 ...

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...

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

of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...

a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...

seventeenth century in his impressive text of nearly 800 pages entitled, Religion and the Decline of Magic. Thomas demonstrated h...

not procreate indiscriminately but should rather follow Natures example and wait until circumstances are optimal in order to add t...

sort of image of things that awe us. Even in these two simple words we are presented with a magical picture of a time of harvest, ...

turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...

is presumably a nurse, and the nurse arrives at an individuals house at five in the morning: "At five in the morning/ I knock on h...

Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...

to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...