Hardy wrote "During the Wind and Rain" in 1917, five years after his wife Emma Hardy's death in 1912. ... It also comes with connotations of sneaking up on you unawares. ... The word "rotten" has connotations of ruined beauty, mixed with the stench of death. ... " The final stanza is the saddest as it mixes the arrival of death with the uselessness of materialism after we are all dead and gone. ... "During the Wind and Rain" has three main themes: the inevitability of time and how death comes with that hand in hand, how no one is special enough to be ex...

• Word Count: 905
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The tone of 'The Walk' is very sad and lonely throughout the whole poem: 'You did not walk with me/Of late to the hill-top tree/By the gated ways,' The sad tone emphasises Hardy's feeling of loss as he is upset that he has lost his wife and regrets the way their marriage ended up. Hardy's loneliness is shown when he quotes: 'You were weak and lame/So you never came,' This means Hardy went out without his wife's company and was alone even though they could have gone out together, Emma was too ill to go but Hardy went out anyway. ... It also give...

• Word Count: 558
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

He also mentions that the woods are filling up with snow "To watch his woods, fill up with snow" (807). ... The next stanza mentions sounds, and how the only two he hears are his horses" reigns, and the sweep of the wind brushing the snow. "The only other sounds the sweep/ Of easy wind and downy flake" (807) And finally, he makes reference to how the woods look, inviting, and interesting. ... One image is of calm, peaceful evergreens, the other, of trees that have gone bare in the fall, dark, and foreboding. ... But when he says this, the man says it with a sigh. ...

• Word Count: 1767
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"Therefore let the moon shine on thee in the solitary walk; and let the mountain winds be free" (Wordsworth). ... "And I have felt a presence me with that disturbs me with joy of elevated thoughts; a sense of sublime of something far more deeply interfused" (Wordsworth). ... Now that the past is gone, William's memory of his past experience at Tintern Abbey floats over his present view of them and feels bittersweet joy in reviving those memories. ... Wordsworth has written this poem to indirect his unity with nature. He also refers his relationship with nature as a cos...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This event broke Hamlet's relations with his mother. ... He no longer had the chance to talk about girls with his father, such as Ophelia. He was left with no real male role model in his life. ... He had the fresh new heart ache of Ophelia being gone and refreshed memories of his father being killed. ... Hamlet's life now at this point, is the most ruined a life can possibly wind up. ...

• Word Count: 1433
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Do you ever feel like you've gone somewhere and worn the wrong thing? ... Hussein put up with much ridicule until those around him understood his background and culture, with this, he felt that he could finally be free and allow those around him to see him for who he was. ... We all try to fit in with those around us, keeping up with the latest fashion trends and exercising until we can't move a muscle as to not get another cellulite bump on our thighs, yet we still feel that there is something wrong with our physical appearances. ... "Wouldn't it be nice if I could just melt ...

• Word Count: 1933
• Approx Pages: 8