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those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...
As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...
obvious characteristically reminiscent of the common themes of life, love and landscape, as well as the not-so-happy aspects of hu...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
then of trust when most intense, hence, amid ills that vex and wrongs that crush our hearts -- if here the words of Holy Writ may ...
how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...
particular values, and freedom from persecution by authorities for those views. One could say that the roots, as far as it can b...
Fourth, while previous generations of poets felt that poetry should address noble or epic topics, the Romantics glorified the bea...
truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...
beyond the confines of her era to see how future generations might view it. Her poetry speaks to many topics such as, love, loss,...
that in the summer of 1797, he retired in "ill health" to a "lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton" (231). Because of a "sli...
sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...
express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...
ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...
Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...
as the vital key, where one sings to their beloved in life and after death, supporting themselves within a delicate and austere sc...
Barrett Browning, See also Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning). Furthermore, her brother dies in 1838 and this, combined with the re...
futility and anarchy (of) contemporary history": this is not to say that such a structure need be formal and stylised, only that i...
for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...
bottle we buy. All we have to do is look at the contents of most plastic bottles such as for shampoo, lotion, juices, and milk, an...
the sea, suggests a love of nature, as is evocative of natures beauty. Secondly, Sappho connected this image with memory, which su...
affected her personally. This is exemplified in her poem fragment that scholars have numbered 93. The poem begins with the injunc...
he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....
afflicted with serious health issues, such as Graves disease and a thyroid disorder among others, and these caused her to become a...
we suppose that the nature of that is reciprocal, despite any lack of evidence (Barash). Furthermore, he argues that not only is ...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...
nonsense poem is to not try to understand it at all. In other words, reading the poem outloud, rather than reading it to oneself, ...
particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...