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

her own hair so that she will remain his forever, and be forever trapped in that role of loving him completely. It...

began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...

and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...

experience it for himself. As a teenager I would drive Fathers Chevrolet cross-country, given me...

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...

the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...

wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...

as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

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

various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...

Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

and lonely offices?" (Hayden 13-14). All of this speaks of a childs ignorance and how children are simply children, ignora...

about the circumstances of the household. An atmosphere of bitterness with bouts of anger is described. The recollection suggests ...

of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...

beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...

examining politics and the environment as anyone could be. 2. What was the overall topic/concept in the book? As the title...

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

very difficult emotion to describe or explain. This is why Burns used the elements of nature in order to detail what love was, wha...

In five pages this poem by Robert Penn Warren is analyzed. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

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