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

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...

beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...

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...

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

what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...

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...

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...

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

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

wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...

one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth; / Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the bett...

road that was not as well traveled. The grass being green and not trampled tells the reader that few people coming to that crossro...

point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...

In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...

future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...

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

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 the Muse to introduce its tale: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contendin...

read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...