The isolated "O" and the exclamation put upon the call for the wine suggests a real desperation for any relief from the real world in which he inhabits. ... I believe the speaker asks this question due to the fact that the heart of nature was a much more powerful place than reality. ... When the speaker in Ode to a Nightingale asks the question which world is the reality at the end of the final stanza, he does so because it simply makes more sense to that we surround ourselves with the beauty of nature. ... The idea that nature is an actual presence that the speaker feels I believe is best...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Shelley begins his poem by addressing the "Wild West Wind" (1). ... In the second stanza, Shelley brings to attention the question of the power. ... - He recognizes however a series of even more rhetorical questions in lines 16-20. ... At one point he cries out to God to reveal himself, saying "I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed [religion]; I was not heard "I saw them [the dead] not-. ... He feels that after a young adulthood, where everything is questioned, middle age and eventually old age becomes a depressing situation. ...

• Word Count: 1748
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In "Ode on a Grecian Urn" the speaker begins by asking many questions directly towards an aged urn. ... What wild ecstasy?" ... The descriptive imagery contained in his questions allows the reader to visualize some of the details of the picture, such as the man chasing a maiden. ... He actually mentions the appeal of dying when he says, "I have been half in love with easeful Death, / Call"d him soft names in many a mused rhyme / / Now more than ever seems it rich to die" (52-55). ...

• Word Count: 1754
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Surely, the theme of the poem, Arthur Henry Hallam's death provided him the excuse to question his faith in God and as well as in the rest of the poem, to question his faith in nature and poetry. ...

• Word Count: 5237
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

"What we call the beginning is often the end. ... Once he learned to read, the young boy immediately became obsessed with books and was completely absorbed in tales depicting savages, the Wild West, or Mark Twain's thrill-seeking Tom Sawyer. ...

• Word Count: 4134
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School