The characteristic elements of John Donne's poetry are plentiful. ... Many of his poems have distinct characteristics coming through, such as a persuasive argument. ... Donne celebrates the physical side of love when he tries to convince his beloved to sleep with him. ... Donne mixed ideas of the physical and the spiritual, expressing both realms. ... This poem also mixes the spiritual and physical elements in Donne's poetry. ...

• Word Count: 1180
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

These characteristics are regular rythmic patterns, carefully constructed stanzas, and simple yet eloquent language. ... The speaker feels that physical imprisonment does not necesarily mean emotional imprisonment. ...

• Word Count: 370
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• Grade Level: High School

In this case, the woman's eyes aren't used as a physical feature, but more as a window into her inner self, revealing what's in her heart. ... The soft cheeks, the winning smile, the tints in the skin eloquently express not only physical beauty, but they also compliment her morality. ... (Appendix I) The physical beauty, the speaker can conclude, reflects days spent doing well, a mind at peace, and a heart whose love is innocent. ... George Byron's poem would have been a plain love poem, but because the forces are so pronounced by his use of colorful language, rhythm, ...

• Word Count: 1019
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For over half the length of the poem, the poet is seen writing in the grip of physical loss. ... When he looks around, he spots the lilac bush blossoming in the dooryard and feels its physical appeal strongly. ... The lilac bush, with its rich colors and scent, represents physical life, while the hermit thrush bodies forth spiritual life. ... Elegiac feeling in American literature does not, in fact, characteristically take for its occasion the death of an individual. ... The sun, day and land suggest life and the physical, while the moon, night and sea represent death and the spiritual. ...

• Word Count: 1210
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• Grade Level: High School

Cohen has made it clear that the main character's relationship with Suzanne is not a physical one. ... The relationship between Suzanne and Jesus has many of the characteristics common to any courtly love relationship. ... The relationship between Suzanne and the main character is not based on sexual satisfaction, which is another characteristic of the courtly love relationship. ... The most dominate characteristic of courtly love poetry is that love conquers all. ...

• Word Count: 1060
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This encounter lead him to visualize a great distinct physical image of her so he began to speak of this phenomenal attractiveness. ... Essentially the female in this poem is evaluated in terms of the physical world. ... She Walks in beauty can be defined as a lyric poem because of its many characteristics. ... The tone encountered in Lord Byron's poem, is the tone of voice of an inspired man by love and physical attraction. ... Clearly, "She Walks in Beauty" is a poem referred to the physical beauty of a woman. ...

• Word Count: 1724
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Nonetheless, Paterson is making a bold statement concerning the physicality of love and the acts included. ... Paterson makes more light hearted references in the poem "Letter to the Twins " referring more to the act of love than the physicality of it. ... In the curves and corners of this silent song will lie the whole code of your intercourse. " Paterson, while still touching on the physicality of love, mentions "learn this and she will guide you, " it is believed that Paterson is referring to the act of love itself. ... Finally, Paterson begins to touch upon the physicality of love again. ...

• Word Count: 1696
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He must exploit the physical properties of the words themselves. ... Actoins of both scenes take place in the poet's mind but the movements in the rose garden seem more physical. ... This famous line juxtaposes a series of random things, but the effect is not the atmosphere of the melancholy characteristic of The Waste Land. ...

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

John Betjeman's " On a Portrait of a Deaf Man" portrays a beloved father through an elegy constructed of disquieting contrasts, creating a poignant but incongruous tribute to a dead, deaf father. The poet's loving memories of his relationship with his father slowly unfolds with each stanza so that w...

• Word Count: 1321
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Chance Meeting or Meant to Be? Like the movie created in the late 1990s, Thomas Hardy created a poem entitled "The Convergence of the Twain" to describe the sinking of the grandest ship ever created, the Titanic. In his poem, Thomas Hardy addresses that in April 1912 the unsinkable Titanic was de...

• Word Count: 1030
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• Grade Level: High School

The capitalization of these two principal words occurs because the speaker is actively thanking and praising God throughout the poem.Since he feels that God is a much higher being, he capitalizes the name God and the pronoun used in reference to him.Although Cummings can show the speaker's feelings of extreme reverence through metaphors and symbols within the poem, he can alter the physical characteristics of the poem as well in order to make these feelings even more important.The fact that the name and all references to God himself are capitalized shows that the speaker gives God more re...

• Word Count: 2203
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare's reason for using euphony and cacophony could be that he was trying to form different sounds to accommodate the different characteristics of this woman. ... There is more to a person than physical appearance. A person can find love in the spirit of the person and the heart and mind are more important than physical traits. ...

• Word Count: 1776
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Wordsworth was a firm believer that man should "find an immanent force that unites them with their physical and spiritual environments" (Jan Shoemaker p.1). ... Wordsworth just simply gave the obvious characteristics of the valley not enough to capture the true physical beauty of it. ...

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

The Mask of Anarchy: a Reflection of Shelley's Revolutionary Introduction Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was the only son of an aristocratic family: his father was an M.P. and his grandfather was a wealthy landowner. He educated at Eton College and entered the University of Oxford. There, he...

• Word Count: 2715
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School