Unlike many of John Keats' other poems, he writes "La Belle Dame sans Merci" in a simple manner, without extensive explanations of surroundings. ... The knight acts on his impulse and blindly gives in for control of a strange woman; however, such desire and unaccountability leaves this knight with a broken heart. ... His incredible amount of affection to her blinds the knight, therefore, he is unable to realize that this gorgeous lady tricks him and leaves him with a broken heart. ... Knight's huge impulsive temptation and emotion towards the lady leaves him a broken heart ...

• Word Count: 1034
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Part B: Poem Analysis – The Draft Horse Emma Tan Robert Frost, author of The Draft Horse wrote this poem in the early to mid-1920's. ... The narrative flow of the poem is continuous until the moment the horse is "stabbed dead" (8). ... However, in comparing the second stanza to the third, the third one is broken into two sentences. ... The onomatopoeic effect with a "crack of a broken shaft" (10) creates an aural visualization of the cracking noise we would've heard when a knife is plunged into the horse. ... The frail buggy, is the weak...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An exilic figure such as Grendel who is "broken and bowed, outcast from all sweetness" is a character who is not just meant to be hated, but also to have sympathy and sorrow felt for them (1274 – 1275). Scholars tend to agree with this, claiming that "the mere mention of Grendel's exile has always stirred the heart of an Old English poet". Furthermore, Hrothgar's description of Grendel conflicts with other descriptions of him in the poem, where Grendel is not portrayed as monstrous but instead as "warped in the shape of a man" (lines 1351–135...

• Word Count: 1275
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The speaker's verbal artistry is a compelling drama that envisions no shame, showing how can a man fill a woman's heart with empty promises and concepts and still walk proudly "through the iron gates of life" (line 44). ... The whole poem is simply an insult to a woman's demeanor and thrives off her uneducated social status. When broken down, carpe diem tradition does not seek to love for ages, nor does encourage relationships; it signifies an instituted methodology for sexual satisfaction. ... The evidence supporting the effect of figurative language, poetic form and carpe ...

• Word Count: 917
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The fact that there is no real order to the poem that can be given a name and that is cannot be squeezed into the unyielding confinements of a category of poetry makes Ginsberg's words seem closer to his listener because his poem mirrors the entropy of the real world. ... Anything that is gnarled is twisted and often has a tendency to be evil and hideous the world itself strikes fear into hearts yong and old. Here, Ginsberg uses the lowest of the low creatures of the earth, the spider and it's web it to describe the dearth of light on the sunflower, "corolla of bleary spikes pushed ...

• Word Count: 1238
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

How does this show symbolically in the poem "Dover Beach,"" by Arnold? ... "Dover Beach" is a poem about such doubt and uncertainty. Arnold was a man on the brink between the old world and the new, right on the edge of the modern era, so he sees the inevitable downfall of the Victorian discourse: He places the poem on the shoreline and his character on a window "both thresholds "to signal his vision of the brink between two eras and his doubt, his loss of belief without yet being able to find something to replace it." ... And how does this translate into the poems (discussed in cl...

• Word Count: 2695
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At one point in "Jane Eyre," Blanche Ingram even references a song from one of Lord Byron's famous poems Corsair. This particular poem is about a corsair, or pirate, named Conrad who is one Lord Byron's own Byronic heroes. ... Lydia Robinson, Branwell's love, refused his proposal and then left him empty and broken hearted. ...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate