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Even though it is not stated directly in the text, the reader assumes that the doe was hit by a car, the driver of which did not even stop to move her body out of [...]

Personally, I had a clear image in my head when I read the poem; that is why using imagery shaped my understanding of the poem and the role of romance in it.

In that poem, Anne Bradstreet uses a self-deprecating tone to emphasize the message of her achievements being nothing compared to the hard long-term work of her father.

The stylistic device that the poet uses is the simile to associate a deferred dream with the traditional image of rotting meat. The first part is the dream's relation to a raisin and a rot.

Each of the poem's stanzas demonstrates the gravity of the sour relationship between a father and his son. The complexity of the association between the father and the son is evident all through the poem.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and explain the poem's themes and what helps the writer deliver the message to the reader.

In "My Son the Man", Olds combines pride, sadness, and hope through the prism of Houdini's allusion to explain why the idea of the child's escape leads to unpredictable outcomes.

The swaying and rocking of the written song is felt in the cadence of the poem. The sense of evil is to be of anger due to prejudice; he accepts that in the end.

It is a tribute to the honesty and faithfulness of the peasant to master and to God. It shows the value that Burns placed on family, and most of the poem is spent telling us [...]

The narrator of Those winter Sundays is a son who recollects his memories about the father and a generation gap that existed between the father and son.

The first syntactical violation we can point out is Cummings' failure to capitalize the first word of the first line which is also the beginning of the first sentence, this is due to his "ineluctable [...]

The imagery effects of the poem offer deep grounds for the analysis of the house's inside, the woman's feelings, and the passerby's attitude toward her.

The poem is delivered in the form of a narration where the author provides a detailed description of the girl who is getting ready in the morning. In summary, the poem by Song is very [...]

When one reads the poem for the first time, it is not easy to comprehend the meaning, but the beauty of the words used is sufficient.

Frost used the lifestyle and settings of the rural people in a creative manner and related them to the philosophical, cultural and social issues that existed at that time so as to bring in the [...]

The poem 'The Lamb' by William Blake is a short verse that describes the author's attitude towards the little lamb that metaphorically symbolizes everything in the world that is calm, humble, and inoffensive.

The author personifies Imagination to describe best the state of mind that people experience when they are dreaming. Moreover, the poetess notes that Imagination can transfer people to places not available to the common mind.

Eliot was known to have been a fanatic of Dante, and the meaning of the epigraph indicates that the poem is something that the world was not meant to hear, but it emerged anyway.

Thus, the central theme of this poem is the horrors of war and the human compassion and power of the heart that oppose them.

The speaker seems to be a woman who was abandoned by her partner, and the poem is a solitary reflection on the feelings of love and loneliness.

Incident is one of the most famous poems by the prominent African-American poet and author Countee Cullen who is a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. The conflict described in the poem is one of [...]

In this respect, literature can be proud of the Romanticism and Victorian literature, because of their gradual framework and applicable emergence due to the significant events, such as the French Revolution, American Revolution, the defeat [...]

The author manages to accomplish his task of reaching the reader's soul due to resorting to one of the central themes of his poetic works: the theme of nature and the relationship of a man [...]

What he remembers is the slaying of mankind to which he acknowledges that he has attained and reached that extent of fear, after which fear itself has remained trivial to him.

The adherers of the idea say that the fundamental system of values that were the basis for the development of the young state became irrelevant today.

It appears as if the speaker places a type of importance on the wheelbarrow beyond what it was meant to do and it is this importance that the author seems to connect to the phrase [...]

Her poetic approach, use of vignettes and the Spanish language in her books 'The House on a Mango Tree' and 'Caramelo' indicates a unique style that makes them easy to read and understand.this paper reviews [...]

The close reading of the poem makes it possible to state that the main idea of the reading is neither the obsession with the fall of the world nor the degradation of the human personality, [...]

As a magician of language, Carroll raised in the poem and in the whole work about the girl Alice, the most ancient folklore layer: the abstruse language is in children's counting rhymes, it was used [...]

In order to fully grasp the meaning of a formal poem, it is necessary to analyze and understand its rules; there is no such restriction with free verse.

In fact, the first stanza gives a visual description of the continent's beauty, drawing the analogy with the woman's body. In this poem, Angelou showed how the people of Africa felt when the white came [...]

Countee Cullen's poem "From the Dark Tower" reveals the author's thoughts and feelings concerning slavery in the United States. The main idea that the poet seeks to convey is the notion that white and black [...]

The extermination of the Roma was part of the general policy of the National Socialists to destroy political opponents, homosexual people, terminally and mentally ill, drug addicts, and Jews.

In brief, the poem recounts the lyrical protagonist's disillusionment with the decline of Christian faith in the rise of scientific thought in society.

In conclusion, the analysis will be followed by a note of critique about the potential of the novel in terms of the socio-cultural, ethical, and emotional education of the children.

The title "The Second Coming" is taken from the Christianity prophesy from the book of revelation that the world will end through a series of events and eventually Christ will come back to rule over [...]

The persona says that if the reader is happy, it is because the reader is outside and smiling and if he is sad, then he should get outside and smile.

The beginning of the poem reveals the narrator's feelings toward Annabel Lee, determining the theme and the mood of the verse: "a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; [...]

The tension comes from the fact that he knows that is his dog, but he really does not want to see it too close, and the dog has been missing for five days, so now [...]

The theme of the poem is drinking alcohol and its justification. Clearly, there is a hint at the theme of the piece as the Greek writer focused on love and alcohol.

In this paper, I will show that in light of the deliberate choice of diction, the metaphorical significance of the funeral, the interaction of the content with structure and form, the utilization of personal voice [...]

Some other interpretations of the poem have concerned itself with the apologetic or forgiveness seeking language of the poem and interpret the moral and linguistic pattern of the act presented in the poem.

It s based on this that I believe that the poem is a more personal work of the author, written to commemorate a point in his life where his heart was broken by love.

In a bid to deliver the message of the poem, the author uses various interesting tools. The content of the poem is interesting as the author narrows down to the concept of old age.

A River attracts society to itself and has the option to educate them on the bloody history of the USA. Thus, it is still relevant as a reminder of the tragic past and promising future.

Wilfred Owen primarily appeals to credibility and emotion to convey the horrors of the war, but there is still a logical component in the poem's structure.

Their bubble burst in the air" to mean black men have confronted what others, including the white men, have encountered, only that the black men's experiences are negative.

In old English, as is the case with the poem, there is an addition of the suffixes such as as in elingas in weak verbs.

Based on the analysis of the poem and the idea of a speech act, one can say that the first part of the poem is the addressee, the beatniks, including the author himself.

Leveraging the formalist, feminist, and postcolonial literary approaches, subjective analysis of the Young Goodman Brown poem highlight the motifs, techniques, and methodical and systematic styles utilized in the reading.

This is good evidence for the argument of the need to eliminate the issue of ableism. Language evolves gradually, and countering the issue of ableism is a long-term goal.

Maya Angelou, being a Black woman in the America of the past, dared to assert that she is capable and worthwhile with Still I Rise. In conclusion, Maya Angelou's Still I Rise is an ode [...]

Gilman uses the speaker and his neighbors to illustrate the subject of change and creates a division between him as the modern mind and the neighbors as the traditional minds.

When it comes to social media, Alexie thinks Facebook is a poor method to connect with people since it encourages them to retreat behind their computers. The Facebook Sonnet uses the enjambment and caesura approaches [...]

This essay aims to analyze the theme of the effects of war and destruction in the poem The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska and the lyrics Harry Patch by Radiohead.

The main argument of the given poem analysis is that the past left major cultural scars and pain within the African American community, and the current state of society is not allowing these damages to [...]

She must have felt regretful about coming to call her brother for dinner."Leaped out at the boy's hand," the writer personifies the saw to show the fatality that befell the brother's sister.

Therefore, a critical analysis of the two poems shows the difference between Taylor and Bradstreet in their use of language to convey their ideas.

In "Habitual" by Nate Marshall, as the title implies, the poem describes the psychological issues of habits that construct human lives. The narrator opens the poem with the expressions of controversial existence.

The poem is focused on the poet's wife's fear that attracts and draws her to the writing-table and, at the same time, lives in it.

The relevance of showcasing social inequality through voices and faces of the Afro-Americans in the United States draws the parallel between the historical and contemporary context.

The use of the specified literary device allows bringing a certain element of chaos into the poem, at the same time helping it to gain the reverberation needed for the lines to sound almost like [...]

The themes of the time of the day and seasons of the year are among the most popular with poets. Numerous instances of alliteration and consonance help to recreate the tone of the situation by [...]

In the very first lines of the poem, the reader is able to see a negative tone that the author is using to warn his readers concerning the possible dangers of the absence of meaning [...]

The poems inspire the readers, through the images of life, whether in old age or young, to not accept death as it is, but rather to challenge even in the last time minute.

The internal structure and the external form of this very poem are connected with the help of the context; at the same time, the external form facilitates the understanding of the contrast between two worlds.

Robert Herrick's poem carries the same urgent and passionate tone, he also reminds the listener of the fast passing time and the need to act now 'Old time is still a-flying: And this same flower [...]

The three poems written by Langston Hughes, namely "Negro Speaking of the Rivers", "Democracy" and "The Negro Mother" show the depth of black people's sufferings and the immensity of their desire to obtain freedom and [...]

Thesis: The poem is about the wanderings of the ancient mariner who is permanently traumatized and alienated by his killing of the albatross and his experiences lead him to the spiritual realization that all creatures [...]

In 1923, he graduated from the New York University and published his first book of poetry, "Color". His works are in the tradition of Keats and Shelley, resistant to the techniques of modernism.

This is likely intentional as the tower, and the neighboring lake is a very famous location in China and holds great significance outside the context of the poem.

Apparently, by doing it, Douglass strived to emphasize the hypocritical ways of Southern slave-owning Bible-thumpers, who used to be thoroughly comfortable with indulging in two mutually incompatible activities, at the same time treating Black slaves [...]

Willy Loman is believed to be a tragic hero, since he fails to achieve his purpose and encounters numerous barriers in his way to self-realization and happiness. Willy Loman cannot be a tragic hero, since [...]

This fascination with the contradictions between the visible and the concealed aspects of personality and behavior is a reflection of Wilde's stated goal for the play.

As the speaker touched its belly, he was sorry that he could not be able to save the young deer that was warm in the belly of the dead deer.

One of the best examples of the author's techniques is the poem "Acquainted with the Night". One of the interpretations, that we are going to provide in this paper, deals with the explanation of the [...]

In the poem "My Last Duchess," the Duke shows that he values status and power, which drives his jealousy and makes him want to control every aspect of his former wife's behavior.

The Penelope image is associated with the goddess of the house, the keeper of the hearth, and all households. During his wanderings, the goddess is the patroness of Odysseus.

The Fragment 31 by Sappho is a masterpiece that celebrates being in love and demonstrates the pain of inner feelings because of unrequited love.

At a Station of the Metro is a two-line poem by the American poet of the 20th century Ezra Pound. The title is part of the poem, as it creates a scene for the perception [...]

The key artistic effect of this small but capacious poem is achieved through the use of several techniques related to the structure of the versification and sound patterns.

It is vibrant that the poet was raised in a fitted and joined atmosphere since he is not scared to show feelings, especially when inscription about his father.

The settings affect the reader's impression of the poem, making it more emotional and addressing the context of the historical period it describes.

Beginning with the first stanza of the poem, the narrator states that he is exhausted and hears a gentle tapping as he nods in a somnolent condition; however, he first concludes that the knocking on [...]

The poetry of the Beat Generation exuded of the ideal of the Beat Generation that was to "escape" in a "vision".

The speaker communicates with the neighbor by continually questioning the legitimacy of the wall. First, the poem is written in the form of a short story where the speaker recounts one remarkable event in his [...]

The speaker and nature in the poem communicate through the rapidly changing times. I connect with the poem at a personal level as it speaks to my heart about the truth of my life.

Jordan focuses on portraying the aspects of the young Black poet's life while naming Wheatley the "miracle" and explaining why the life of the Black poet can be associated with the idea of a "difficult [...]

The poem "The Sunlight on the Garden" by Louis Macneice has four stanzas. The stanza finalizes by representing the decreasing authority of the British Empire.

Through the Inferno poem, Dante Alighieri describes an allegorical journey to demonstrate the fates of various people in the underworld. The betrayers are immersed in ice.

In The Nymphs' Reply to the Shepherd, Sir Walter Raleigh gives a response to the proposal. On the other hands, in The Nymphs' Reply to the Shepherd, Walter gives reasons as to why the promised [...]

The theme of the poem is about the manifestation and display of his grief and his obsession with the loss of his partner.

Okigbo spoke the language of his people in Nigeria, and Eliot spoke American English. Okigbo learned English in school and university as the language of the colonial government of Nigeria at that time.

Critics attribute the change in style to the politically charged times that We Real Cool was written in, and the poem also includes a more generous sprinkling of the vernacular that made her work more [...]

The masterpiece describes the life of Odysseus and his journey especially after the infamous fall of Troy. One outstanding fact about Odysseus is that he is the main hero of the epic.

The poem is about the bond between father and son. The poem expressed a son's desire to connect with his father.

The validity of this suggestion can be well illustrated, in regards to the Sonnet 116, in which the poet exposes readers to his highly idealistic view on the significance of love.

As death and mortality along with love make the key themes of the poem, it will be reasonable to suggest that the mood of the latter is quite dark, despite the lyrical tone and the [...]

A density of narrative elements used in the play creates dynamics between the character and the plot, motif and problem by including techniques implied by the sources.

In this stanza, the words that carry the rhyme are "me", which is repeated three times, "be" repeated two times and "see"."Me" and "be" are used in an altering way to indicate how the speaker's [...]

First, it is important to consider the major theme of the poem to be able to analyze the significance of the style.

The Aeneid was recognized as a legendary masterpiece and a testament to the dignity of the Roman Empire. The Christian art according to Constantine was to emphasize on the authority of Christ and His church [...]

Making Satan the main antagonist of the poem, Milton shows the inner struggle in the character's soul and the process of his devolution, depicting him as a fallen angel gradually transforming into a devil.

Thus, the term "mending wall" holds a metaphorical significance, representing the mending of relationships and the constant need for human connection. In conclusion, Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" is a thought-provoking exploration of human relationships, boundaries, [...]

Another example of kenning in the Beowulf's foreword is the phrase "mead-bench tore", which describes a sturdy man, emulating the size of the seat at the Germanic feast.

Thus, the author shows that in addition to changes in appearance, the girl also notices physiological changes in her body, making her more feminine.

Lanval is one of the stories to which the rules and nature of courtly love described by Capellanus are applicable. Thus, the character of the story is an example of a true lover who is [...]

Priam reminds Achilles that he is still a human, and Achilles urges the Trojan king not to give up under the misfortunes of war because that is also a part of human nature.

The semantic load of the poems of the poetess gives an opportunity to take a closer look at the woman's attitude to love.

The story of "Sonnet" is considered to be partly autobiographical, although the characters were real people who lived in the first part of the 20th century."Sonnet" consists of three verses. There is a sort of [...]

Plato, Courtly, and the general perception of affection today, represent it as a valuable sensation, which everyone should admire to have.

In "The Swan" and "To a Passer-By", Baudelaire, the fl neur, shares his memories of the past and the realities of the mundane present to underline the beauty of the transience of life.

Considering the time of the composition of the poem America, that is in the 1950s when militarism and McCarthyism dominated the political scene in the United States, poetry was an important tool to enlighten the [...]

According to Hughes, his voice cannot be white because he is black, but his relationship with the instructor does not allow his voice to remain black either.

The first four words of the poem can be used as key words for comprehending it as a whole.'That's' helps the reader understand that the style of the poem is conversational.'My' tells the reader about [...]

The Legend of Good Women written by Geoffrey Chaucer is considered to be a significant poem having the dream vision form; it is a kind of testament to female disparate views being prevalent at the [...]

The Vietnam War found a profound reflection in the literature and poetry of the country's citizens, affected by the continuous loss of lives and the division of the country into North and South Vietnam.

The language used in many of her poems lacks a clear rhyme and at times is borderline prose, and yet still it manages to pluck at the strings located in a reader's heart, painting vivid [...]

We may assume that Dickinson uses the unconscious sublimation to reflect her ideas of sexual desires and pleasures in her literary work.

The appreciation for nature among the Japanese features in the poems through the constant mention of the four seasons that carry along with them the beauty of nature.