Anyone who has experienced a break in a relationship that results with a broken heart can empathize with John Donne's poem "The Broken Heart" after some thought. ... Another visual reference to love in "The Broken Heart" is the mentioning of glass. ... Feelings of humans are fragile and prone to be hurt, and so the title "The Broken Heart" may be derived from this simile of the broken glass. ... The descriptions in "The Broken Heart" based upon glass help add to the bad nature of love as John Donne sees it. ... In John Donne's poem "The Broken Heart" written on the downfalls ...

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Likewise, in "Someday You Will Be Loved," Death Cab for Cutie writes, "I cannot pretend that I felt any regret/Cause each broken heart will eventually mend/As the blood runs red down the needle and thread/Someday you will be loved." The speaker of the poem does not feel bad and does not regret leaving the girl. ... The speaker is talking about a broken heart being repaired and constantly reminds the girl that she will be loved by repeating the second line mentioned above throughout the poem. The speaker of the poem feels that the girl the poem is directed towards needs reassurance that someday...

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This poem tells us of a break-up between two lovers. The title for this poem does not give us much, but it basically gives us what we will expect the poem to read. "When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken hearted, To server for thy years" - Obviously a long term relationship has just ended. ... "Thy vows are all broken" - This could be suggesting that it could be a break up of a marriage. ... This poem is quite sad and you can't help but feel sympathetic. ...

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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 ...

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Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem about the devastating loss of his beloved Annabel Lee. ... This is probably done to disturb the rhythm of the poem and startle the reader. ... In the final stanza you really feel the pain of a broken hearted man, "and so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, in her sepulcher there by the sea-in her tomb by the sea". Edgar Allen Poe's feelings are made quite clear; he really poured his heart and soul into the final stanza and captivated the reader who viewed the tragedy of life and death throu...

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His poems, 'Wild Swans at Coole' explores the conflicting tension of perpetual youth and our inevitable mortality while his great philosophical poem 'Among School Children' takes this dichotomy further in an often despairing quest for meaning in the face of 'sixty winters' of pain. The element of art is not served as a solution for the tensions and arguments within Yeats heart, but instead offers him the possibility of some form of transcendent solace for the dualities of his heart. ... The poem is structured in 5 stanzas, each consisting 6 lines, along with a...

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as a representative poem for this discussion. ?... The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres? ... Here, Hardy has taken the romantic and soothing instrument of the lyre and described it as broken. ... At once a voice arose among The black twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. ... Throughout the poem the speaker has introduced the ideas of positive opposites to the following negatives: weakening eyes can strengt...

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The first stanza describes this poem as a rape. ... "How can body, laid in that white rush, but feel the strange heart beating where it lies?" ... "The broken wall," "the burning roof and tower/And Agamemnon dead," "suggest that Leda lost her virginity and orgasmed"(Magill Book Reviews). ... I leave you with the poem. ... A shudder in the loins endengers there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. ...

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The word "England" or "English" occurs six times in this poem. That's a lot for a poem that is only 14 lines! ... Let's start with the overall form of the poem, shall we? ... Just peep line 9: And think, this heart, all evil shed away.  ... Any time a pattern is established, then broken, those breaks are designed to catch a reader's eye for emphasis (or catch their ear, as in this case). ...

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It indicates a term being broken in half, a time of relaxation and enjoying the time of school. ... It shows that this man is big and still he is heart by the occasion. ... The silence in the poem is broken again in the second line when whispers start to happen. ... It is a very dramatic way to end the poem. ... Time is linear in the poem. ...

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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...

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Her first collection entitled "The Seraphim and Other Poems- was published in 1838, and her second volume "Poems, by E. ... He drowned later that year while sailing at Torquay and Elizabeth returned home emotionally broken, becoming an invalid and a recluse. ... The telegram read "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett. I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart - and I love you too." ... The poem "Casa Guidi Windows- takes place in Italy and Leighton describes it as a "discursive poem- and addresses perfection and let downs of the Italian Risogimento. ...

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She wrote her poems while rearing eight children, functioning as a hostess, being a good wife, and performing other domestic duties. ... Bradstreet is very critical about her works and it shows in her poems. ... In the third stanza, Bradstreet openly criticizes her work, "My foolish, broken, blemished Muse so sings; / All this to mend, alas, no art is able, / "Cause nature made it so irreparable" (16-18). ... Bradstreet's ability to be too hard on her writings only led to her writing fantastic poems. ... As a very talented writer, she was sure to put her heart and soul into each poem ...

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The reality versus imagination seems to be the most predominant issue in this poem. In the poem, by Frost, the speaker is literally describing the birches. ... The tone of the poem is light- hearted with a sense of peacefulness. The flow of the poem itself gives the reader a feeling of swinging on branches. ... It's when I"m weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open" ( 42- 47). ...

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In fact, the poem that would make her known, entitled "Renascence", was published before she even attended college (Milford 70). ... She continued to submit other poems to literary magazines in order to make a name for herself in the literary world. ... Her heart is clearly broken, although she still stands tall in claiming that her heart has not changed. ... This poem shows Millay's honesty as she claims "I will go alone. ... She poured her heart out on the page, torn between her desire for intimacy and her need to create the work that she loved the most. ...

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"The Harlem Dancer" is a poem written by McKay in which many different poetic apects emerge as we read the poem. ... People might think that this poem is a story of a dancer from Harlem. ... In this poem, the tone is cheerful, but at times there is some discontent. ... As I read the beginning, I assumed it was going to be about a happy, light-hearted occasion. ... The poem is broken into four parts, presenting an argument in each piece and there is a two line summary at the end. ...

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Owen's realistic descriptions form the foundation of the poem. ... Due to the ellipses, the poem is broken up into sections and the reader is able to get an account of the soldier's life before and after the war. ... Women are perceived as very negative in the poem. ... Poets have aweight in their words that find a way to pull at our heart strings. ... Poets know this and their poems commonly reflect it. ...

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It was addressed to Jessie Pope, a writer of other poems concerning the War. Specifically he wrote the poem to counteract her poem "Who's For The Game?". ... At the time, Owen was put into a psychiatric hospital because the war had so badly affected him, broken his character. ... From the very first line you become aware that the poem is not likely to be as light and cheerful as Pope's poem. ... The line continues to say that the man turned their heads on the haunting flares, maybe in a half-hearted effort to shut them out of their minds. ...

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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 ...

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Dialect words, colloquial expressions, specialist terminology, poeticism, and foreign words may be found in the same poem. ... In 1898 he published his Wessex Poems, verse that he had written over the previous thirty years. His poems are largely traditional in theme, form, and structure, and show a continuity with the Wordsworthian art of recording the impact of ordinary daily events on an individual and sensitive mind. Hardy was a prolific poet, author of some 900 poems with an extensive range of feelings and attitudes. Some of the poems are gently iro...

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