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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...

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

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...

stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...

vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...

ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...

the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...

of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...

about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...

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

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

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

Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...

ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...

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

a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...

merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...

"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...

the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...

lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...

The writer undertakes an analysis of the new car market in United Kingdom, with the aim of developing a marketing strategy for a f...

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

n.d.). The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) explains that "Ultimately, health promotion activit...

a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...

haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...

of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...

so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...