If you just look at the title it seems as though the poet is celebrating whiskey or alcohol in general. ... They buy imported drinks such as wine and brandy, instead of the native Irish scotch and whiskey. ... If you take a closer look at the title, the epigraph was a translation of the King James Version of the Bible. ... This leads me too believe that Burns must have had the ending to this poem in mind before he wrote it, because here you see how he has managed to come full circle and end up with the same thoughts as his epigraph title. ...

• Word Count: 587
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The title metaphorically refers to a time outside the present, but part of the persona's "circle". ... In the midst of this landscape is the European "old cottage" surrounded by imported species of trees "willow", "medlar" "crabapple" which casts a destructive presence over the native vegetation by choking the creek which is "leaf-silenced". In one stanza we therefore see the struggle of the native landscape to assert its presence against intrusive English imports. ... The juxtaposition suggested in the title of the "flame t...

• Word Count: 1047
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, it was not well received by the critics, who just from reading the title, assumed the entire book was something awkward but instead, they got an intelligent and strong poet. ... In the beginning of the poem, Cook describes the way he is feeling about the journey: I took my leave of Albion's Rock With heavy heart, concerned that I Was forced my Native soil to fly, And the Old World must bid good-bye: But Heaven ordained it should be so. ...

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It was natural that Whitman, with his genius and metaphysical inclinations, should have drifted into journalism, a profession that could make some demands on his native endowments. ... Except for the last poem, all others continued to appear in each successive edition of the same title, as though Whitman was recreating and reliving his works as often as possible. ...

• Word Count: 1688
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The word "England" or "English" occurs six times in this poem. That's a lot for a poem that is only 14 lines! In this poem England is like a mother to the soldier; she gave birth to him, nourished him, made him who he is. But England is also immortal. Even though, in death, the soldier must leave England, it's only for a little while. ...

• Word Count: 3268
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42