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themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

the hierarchy, to base matter, at its lowest level, with man and the natural world between the two, and Donnes commentary reflects...

with its personae, while feeling extraneous or beside the point; more than sympathy or judgment, these alternatives lead readers t...

illustration of the narrator stopping and examining the two roads we are truly seeing what it before him. This sense of imagery...

inner soul of a woman to be appreciated for the ways in which she makes the lives of her family easier and more pleasant. A native...

of the thinking principle (Keats,1008-1022). Secondly, he believed that one was propelled into the next chamber simply b...

result is that he was able to craft a poem such as "Assisi" which has a gentle yet pointed grace and, as Brodie points out, a "dec...

hobo before he was twenty, and even served a rotation in the Spanish-American War(Academy of Poets). This experience was...

the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...

poem. The rhyming pattern is alternately free form and occasional standard abab. It follows the pattern of iambic pentameter of ...

of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...

is T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Through the adroit use of metaphor Eliot invites the reader to undertake a jo...

writes of black experience: Once when I walked into a room My eyes would see out the one or two black faces For contact or reass...

San Fransico but he would grow up primarily in Massachusetts where he, his siblings, and his mother would move to after the death ...

know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...

"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...

interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...

the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...

a child will enjoy it to some extent, but it is safe to say that this poem was not intended for the young, though it may very well...

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

the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...

Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...

The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

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

(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...

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...