The next question ( What brought the kindred spider . . .), in a voice of lost innocence, brings a new note and a harsher irony with kindred' (as if the sweet flower and the spider had conspired to arrive at exactly that height and place). ...
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorsetshire, England, in 1840. His first job was an architect and he worked in London and Dorset for ten years. Hardy began his writing career as a novelist and was soon successful enough to leave the field of architecture for writing. His novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles a...
The butterfly and I had lit upon, Nevertheless, a message from the dawn, That made me hear the wakening birds around, And hear his long scythe whispering to the ground, And feel a spirit kindred to my own; So that henceforth I worked no more alone; But glad with him, I worked as with his aid, And weary, sought at noon with him the shade; And dreaming, as it were, held brotherly speech With one whose thought I had not hoped to reach. ... "The Tuft of Flowers- where a butterfly acts as a kind pointer who led the readers eye to look at a tall tuft of Flowers besid...
The poetry of Robert Frost is often tinged with sadness; a poet with a deep appreciation for the natural scene, yet duly aware of the harsh realties of life. This line from "Acquainted with the Night" highlights Frost's isolation and his sense of alienation – sentiments which are expressed through...
