It's a world that is very green but he also describes it as having "no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown" (Keats 38). The nightingale's world is dark except for the light "from heaven," from the sky above filtering down through the leaves of the trees in the forest. ... Another example would be that Keats rhymes the word "night" on the end of line 35 with the word "light" on the end of line 38. Line 38 is "But here there is no light" making the rhyme with night very interesting because at night there is often litt...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Frost's Poem, the setting is a deep dark forest filled with white fluffy snow. ... In Longfellow's poem, the setting is a remote coastline with light brown sand and white waves foaming up against it. ... The deep dark forest that we travel through or the tide that waits to "efface" our footprints from the earth are what these poets use to represent life. ...

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As for the action, the only on-stage one is confined to the silent narration, for the narrating urn is mute and silent, and from here springs the first paradox of the scene-stanza 1 the moment the curtain opens: Thou still unravish"d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme The setting, as the trend is in every scene-stanza of the play poem, comes divided into an external setting_ where the metanarrator observes the narrator in bewildered admiration, thus shedding light on the ...

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• Grade Level: High School

New England is known for its beautiful landscape and foliage, although they aren't depicted in the greatest light in "Desert Places". ... The field, covered in snow, disrupts the continuity of the forest. ...

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There is, I believe, envy in the words of the speaker in the opening stanza, his claim of "heart aches" and a "drowsy numbness" that holds him contrasts strongly with the lively, vivacious picture of the "light-winged Dryad of the trees" that is the nightingale. ... This is linked with his wish to 'fade away' into the forest. He wishes to follow the birds song into the forest and become one with nature. ...

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It is one's past, present and the attitude with which he looks upon his future that determines the shade of the light that he will see the poem in. ... This poem gives you a really good image of a forest. ...

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"Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines" is a particular poem which fits the 'exuberant' label. ... " Broken ghosts with glow worms in their heads The things of light File through flesh, where no flesh decks the bones." ... "Light breaks where no sun shines", this light is so powerful it can penetrate further and more powerfully than the sun. Glow-worms are described as "The things of light" as if they are the bearer and bringer of light. ... "Light breaks where no sun shines" offers an obscure outlook into Dylan Thomas's gruesome world of the life cycle. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The setting is foggy and unclear in the beginning lines as the speaker thoughtlessly wanders thoughtlessly he forest. ... The predominant use of the words will and shall go even further to prove his desire to become his own guiding light. ...

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While a rider sleighs home one evening, he is tempted by the darkness of the woods, and Frost suggests that perhaps a mysterious evil lurks in the forest. Although he never states this outright in the poem, the contrast between the warm light of the village and the cold blackness of the woods definitely alludes to nature's mystery. ...

• Word Count: 1053
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School