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My Dear and Loving Husband" and "In Reference To Her Children 23 June, 1659" as well as Taylors "My Spouse" and "Upon Wedlock, and...

But, the poem examines the life and struggles of a soldier as he lays sleeping, and clearly bloodied and examining his cause. It s...

was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...

confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...

does not have a job people envision him as a beggar. But, at the same time there is an understanding that he is doing a Holy mans ...

However, the meaning is obscure and the student will have to pursue the tranlsation with more sophisticated tools than are availab...

of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...

title, the fact that he notes how the sea is history immediately makes the reader wonder. They may wonder about how the ocean is r...

5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...

as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...

who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...

has what might be considered a god-like perspective. That puts him in a place where he can not only look at the city, but judge it...

While there is a sense of pride, it is not an arrogant pride or a pride that is only involved in self for Beowulf is proud of bein...

latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...

day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...

time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...

the wood is in the air and one can see the beauty of the mountains if they only looked up. It is a beautiful image and one that cl...

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...

Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...

reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...

Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...

shared her names (Cisneros, 1987). This places a poetic emphasis on the lack of personal efficacious power women experienced in th...

too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...

a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...

Latino, classical and contemporary" (Bixby, 2000). His later work reveal a man "who has learned his craft from the European tradit...

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

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