Thus proving that the analysis on Emily Dickinson's poetry is some of the most emotionally felt works of the nineteenth century. ... It was her own conscious choice to deliberately withdraw from society into her upstairs room- (Tate 83). She kept to "only a few select friends and the storm, wind, wild March sky, sunsets, dawns, birds, bees, and butterflies were sufficient companionship for Miss Dickinson" (Loomis 79). ... Allen Tate describes her biggest influence to be nature itself, and though she could not deal with the problems of society, she had such an attitude toward life that s...

• Word Count: 1228
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Ode to a Grecian Urn 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: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of...

• Word Count: 1446
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Allen Ginsberg's Motivation for writing Howl Richard Eberhart, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet of 1966, remarks, "Ginsberg's Howl ushered in a new generation." Many 20th century poets have attested to the freeing effect that Ginsberg's poetry had upon them in the late fifties. But to allege th...

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

Besides it is divided into 133 cantos (including the prologue and epilogue), and in contrast to its constant and regulated metrical form, it deals with different subjects such as: profound spiritual experiences, nostalgic reminscence, philosophical speculation, Romantic fantasizing and even occasional verse. Through the analysis of some sections of this poem, it can be taken into account the relations to the romantic vision of nature and religion in Wordsworth's poem. ... The poet compares himself to the yews and so to the death, I think because these animals live underground, and as...

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