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unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...

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

to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...

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...

being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...

and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...

paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....

matter? Good-looking, of course, dark hair, rather matted; the reddish beard several shades lighter; with very deep lines round th...

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

which is extremely faulty, shows that she is easily corrupted. Her first instinct on eating of the forbidden fruit is to entice ...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

that is the shortest day of the year; we can feel the cold, the deep silence of the woods during a snowfall, the solitude and the ...

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 ...

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

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

of a child. 1. "I a child and thou a lamb" (Blake 670). B. Dickinsons narrator is a dying woman. 1. "The Eyes around-had wrung the...

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

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

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...