" (page 1), exclamation points refer to the excitement and happiness she as referred to while writing while "nothing to stay us in our flight"(page 1), connects to some of the deeper fears she faced. ... Metaphor PEEL In Shakespeare's piece "All the Worlds a stage", the playwright compares opposite things, giving them a hidden attraction. ... Moreover Shakespeare demonstrates how intelligent though mischievous human beings are no matter what gender they are. ...

• Word Count: 1106
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Talking about the structure of the poem, "Why did I laugh to-night," is also a traditional Shakespeare sonnet and has rhyme ABABCDCDEFEFGG. ... (1), the poet responds " No voice will tell," (1). This shows that the poet asks questions, but he already knows that no body knows the answer. ... John Middleton Murry states in the book Keats and Shakespeare: A Study of Keats" Poetic Life from 1816 to 1820 "it is not a reply to his own question: "Why did I laugh?"... However, in the end, the poet gracefully accepts death because fame and beauty which he used to think the most important things in life...

• Word Count: 1233
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Dylan Thomas's poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," tells the reader to live his life to the fullest and fight against death while, in the other hand, William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis" tells its audience not to fear death and to embrace it when it arrives. ... Bryant is joined by Shakespeare when he states that we "bare the whips and scorns of time." ... Bryant says that there is no "couch more magnificent" than our "eternal resting-place" in which one lies and is united with the "patriarchs of the infant world." ... In Shakespeare's soliloquy, Hamlet show...

• Word Count: 898
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the first stanza we see he believes that those who give credence to the political world will only end up with tragedy, and no joy. ... It isn't the end that we should fear, but an end with no joy, no art. ... In the second stanza the reader is introduced to the first of the three arts in the form of Shakespeare's tragic heroes, Prince Hamlet and King Lear. ...

• Word Count: 824
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The narrator then falls asleep on his book and experiences so strange and wonderful a dream that, he says, no one on earth can properly interpret it. ... When Morpheus is described in his dark cave, he has "good leyser for to route" (line 172; "plenty of time to snore"), so he sleeps all day and does no other work. ...

• Word Count: 5753
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School