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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...

that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...

was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...

seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...

about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...

this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...

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

In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....

the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...

woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...

their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...

the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...

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

Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...

observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...

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 rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...

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...

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...

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

"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...

played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...