Williams creates imagery that is very vivid and irony that is veiled. ... Directly following is the dark emotions of the widow: "But the grief in my heart is stronger than they/ for though they were my joy/ formerly, today I notice them/ and turned away forgetting." ... Ironically, due to the hardening of her heart by the memories of the death of her husband, springtime is associated with pain and sorrow. ... The juxtaposition of the two serves almost as figurative expression of irony. ... The seasons serve as markers of time and evoke irony on the displacements of memory throughout each....

• Word Count: 1615
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Turn, Turn, Turn Wallace Stevens's poem "The Death of a Soldier" illustrates life and death in both the natural and human world. Steven's structure and rhythm contribute to the poem. The stern tone, disorder of trochees and uncertainties: fuel the reader's awareness plus desire to know. Negative...

• Word Count: 558
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Yet after a scrupulous analysis, I believe the whole narration, elevated by the title, to be an irony. ... ", for he had broken her heart four years ago. ... Death, in his opinion, had been probably due to shock and sudden failure of the heart's action". ... Such condition explained the anger, which was stage one of the self-deceptive irony --- he just subconsciously wished the exciting event to be relevant with himself. Secondly, the irony flourished when the emotion transferring from anger to sympathetic. ...

• Word Count: 2446
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School