At first we hear the cheerfully observant walker on back-country roads: I found a dimpled . . . The iambic lilt adds a tone of pleasant surprise: I found a dimpled darling' " Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet!' ... A satin-white moth has its charm, too, a party-going creature poised like Wordsworth's butterfly on its flower; but rigid' is too frozen, too easily reminiscent of rigor mortis or the stiff shining satin of a coffin. ... The sextet brings the expected change in tone, now no longer easily observing and half-singing though in mockery, but self-questioning...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The first line in Robert Frost's "The Silken Tent" automatically sets the foundation for the rest of the poem: "She is as in a field a silken tent." The first words from the poet's pen compare a woman to a silken tent; something beautiful and of high quality. He then beautifully describes the tent...

• Word Count: 501
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

While searching for more information regarding the child laborers of this time I found several notes that the word "weep" may have actually been the word "sweep" - a result of a Cockney lisp which dropped the "s." ... I found the "Holy Thursday" poems to be much more moving and effective. This is likely because I was able to grasp the images Blake offers much more easily because of my own visit to St Paul's. ... An example of this is found in the first stanza which is a beautiful description of the opening scene: "As market-days are wearing late An' folk begin to tak the gate." ...

• Word Count: 1853
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock is not generally seen as a love story. The poem's title alone would not suggest a love story, but when the story behind the poem is looked into further, there is a love story that emerges. Pope was asked to write the story of Arabella Fermor and the curly ten...

• Word Count: 598
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

A lot of that can be found in Theodore Roethke's poems, written back in the 40's. ... The final verse "Still clinging to your shirt" (16) easily represents the idea of a child begging his father to stay, or to keep on doing something. ...

• Word Count: 540
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The simple words and rhyme scheme of the poem let it flow easily, which adds to the tranquility of the poem. ... The rhyming scheme for this poem is ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH IJIIJ, creating an easily understood and flowing poem. ... I find the poetry of Robert Frost fascinating, with each poem having hidden jewels of thought, found embedded here and there among the seeming "simple" poems - so profoud that they catch the reader off guard. ...

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

The three similarities I found between the two poems are the tone, metaphors, and deception. ... Poets use rhymes, similes, metaphors, alliterations, end rhymes, line rhymes, and many other things that are found in poems that describe one main subject. ... Things can easily slide or glide by if not paying utmost attention. ... The three things I found similar between the two Robert Francis poems were tone, metaphors, and deception. ...

• Word Count: 951
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The feeling of knowing that you are not alone is indescribable, especially if it is found in a piece of writing. ... Nor my children, nor my country, nor my fellow-man It all depends whether I found them worth fighting for. ... This poem can easily be related to Lawrence's "What would you fight for?" ...

• Word Count: 1136
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The poem is a metaphysical poem expressed in a romantic form, so it could be easily categorized as a love poem. ... The hyperbole (exaggeration) used by the character to exaggerate his feelings and emotions can be found in line 8 "Love you ten years before the flood.... Hyperbolism found from line 10 to 18, "Till the conversion of the Jews.... Examples of caesuras can be found in line 2 (This coyness, my lady, were no crime) and in other lines such as, line 6("Shouldst rubies find: I by side), line 38 ("And you should, if you please, till the conversion of the Jews,") ...

• Word Count: 1363
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

One reason as to why this sonnet may appear to not be as developed as Shakespeare's other sonnets is upon Shakespeare's realization that he must bid farewell to the young man, Shakespeare found it difficult to convey his message clearly, or sleuth-like as his usually does. ... Aforementioned, instead of writing fourteen lines of poetry, Shakespeare could have easily just used the opening word of the sonnet, "Farewell", to convey his message to the young man. ...

• Word Count: 897
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Bishop: An Outsider to Herself Though most of Elizabeth Bishop's poems seem to be focused more on real objects or places, some are less tangible, and more imaginary, concerned with self-worth This is how Bishop hints to us how she has a low self-esteem and a feeling that perhaps she doesn't ...

• Word Count: 1099
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

From the beginning the speaker can easily be identified as the author herself as she addresses her book as "( ) offspring of my feeble brain" (l.1) Not only is the book presented as the author's child by Bradstreet but she also describes aspects of an author's relationship to his book being like the complex relationship of a child to its mother. ... These are most importantly found on a religious basis which is not surprising considering the poem dates from the period of the 17th Century which was marked very religiously. ...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Such examples can be found in his poems such as "Ode to the West Wind,"" "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,"" and "Ozymandias."" ... Percy Bysshe Shelley being a prominent romantic poet, is easily recognized as an influential writer whose work is distinguished by the use of vivid imagery and s...

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

They are exhausted, weak, and sick from the elements but still continue to march forward to a place where rest can be found. ... The speaker then challenges the reader to dream of having to pace behind the wagon where they have laid their fellow soldier and hear the sounds the body makes due to the effects of gas on the body: . . . watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable cores...

• Word Count: 1643
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

These surroundings easily engulfed Wordsworth and made him in a sense drunk on nature. The Wye Valley is said to be a place of great beauty in which one could easily begin to question themselves about what they know and understand about the awesome tranquility and peacefulness of nature. ...

• Word Count: 2680
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Plath's Powerful use of Imagery and Metaphors In the poem "Daddy,"" the speaker, Sylvia Plath confesses her true feelings about her deceased father. Throughout the poem, many instances illustrate a great feeling of hatred toward Plath's father. She uses strong imagery and powerful speech to show her attitudes towards her late father and her husband. Plath describes her relationship and feelings of guilt, fear, and pain that her dad's death had caused her. The tone of this poem is that of an adult engulfed in outrage and who often changes into childlike dialect; this is e...

• Word Count: 2858
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Since Bradstreet allowed her emotions and imagination to rule her works, this easily portrayed the freedom and construction in being a poet in her works. ... In stanza one, she writes: "To sing of wars, of captains, and of kings, Of cities founded, commonwealths begun, For my mean pen are too superior things: Or how they all, or each their dates have run Let poets and historians set these forth, My obscure lines shall not so dim their worth- (Bradstreet 247, ln 1-6). ...

• Word Count: 1953
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Poetry can sometimes be very difficult to understand and to analyze. John Donne makes his poetry easy to understand because he does not use a difficult language to get his message through his readers. In two out of many poems, "The Apparition" and "The Flea," he just uses imagery throughout his wr...

• Word Count: 1906
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Being protected by God it preaches the gospel in a way that is only possible for innocent minds- easily, straight and doubtlessly - and hurries to share the comfort he gets in relationship with God. ...

• Word Count: 2918
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This point is described as surrounded by flowers and birds, perhaps it can be found in the rose garden of the first section. ... His meditations on time and being are stated fairly explicitly and can be easily traced in the poem. ...

• Word Count: 2598
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During the 19th century a movement began that ultimately would change the syntax and them of poetry. in his 1802 preface to the Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth railed against the artificial poetic diction found in the sonnets and declared his intentions to write "in a selection of language really used by men"(qtd in Where the Arts live n. pag.). ... He easily differentiated himself from his peers as a result of his scholastic abilities. ...

• Word Count: 4095
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School