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should get along. Orphan Train Rider Title and Author: Orphan Train Rider by Andrea Warren. Setting (Time and Place): The place ...

But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...

they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...

his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...

that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...

people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...

However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...

likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...

The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...

to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...

also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...

a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...

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

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

talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...

"Mending Wall" we have a very powerful look at what self reliance can do to an individual. It presents us with a picture of what s...

renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...

noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...

But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...

A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...

of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...

sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...

has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...

The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...