In Robert Frost's poem, "Tree at my window," the author uses imagery to characterize the relationship between the speaker of the poem and the tree outside his window. The tree represents the speaker in both of his conscience and subconscious states. ... Frost gives this tree a personality so the speaker can have something to relate to himself. ... It seems as though the speaker is having a nightmare as he and the trees are "taken and tossed"(9). ... The speaker's focus changes from his dream and his connection with the tree to how their paths crossed. ...

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In Blake's "A Poison Tree,"" the speaker, probably a young woman, tells of a grudge she holds against her enemy and the torture it inflicts upon her. ... While she attempts to mask this anger "with smiles,"" (l.7) she gives further encouragement to her anger and become increasingly and more tortured by this "wrath- she knows she is destined to inflict. ... The foe, however, is denied such congenial treatment by this "wrath,"" and instead the "wrath did grow- (l.4) and metaphorically begins to sprout to eventually become a tree. The speaker then cares for this tree with "tears- of ra...

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Frost uses irony with analogies to argue that his apple trees will not eat his neighbor's pinecones. Frost writes: He is all pine and I am apple - orchard my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines." ... In the poem "Departmental" my opinion is that Frost is giving his conception about the government and he demoralizes the concept of the departments. ...

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The flow of the poem itself gives the reader a feeling of swinging on branches. ... Robert Frost's use of diction in this poem is very specific and creative in order for the speaker to give the audience a vivid description of the trees and the cause for the birches present appearance. ... As the speaker is looking at the drooping trees, he imagines what could have caused the trees to droop. ... The speaker discusses going to heaven by climbing a birch tree to the very top until he could go no further, and then gently being placed back down on earth by the tree. Although the reality of t...

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The poem is set in a traditional format, using simple rhyme and meter to give the reader a sense of formality. ... "The men beneath the tree", bring forward yet another aspect of this piece. Although the tigers do not fear these men, the fact is, the men drove the tigers up the tree. ... The reference to animals being hunted and driven up trees ties into this as well. ... There is a definite rhyme scheme which gives the poem a smooth flow and a very formal first impression. ...

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The choices of words used in this ode give immense vivid imagery of the season. ... In the first line, Keats already gives vivid imagery of the season with his words. ... Keats describes how autumn has its intensity of color and life as he states "To blend with apples the moss"d cottage-trees, and fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;" (line5-6). This line shows how autumn has its greatness, with the fruit being fully ripe and the apple trees filled with apples. ... The comparisons give great vivid imagery of his imaginary thoughts and views. ...

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Implying that all her life she has been treated unfairly either because of her race or gender, but her mother taught her not to give in to those who discriminate against her and pull her down. ... Some grow on trees, and some grow in other places. Suddenly, that hope we all dreamed of is shattered as soon as the poet switches to "But not this tree". This tree which ended all hope, this tree of death, hatred and violence appears. ... The moon hangs from the sky like a swollen fruitMy feet betray me, dance anyway from this killing tree". ...

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./ My apple trees will never get across/ And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him." (pg. 889) this is insinuating that Frost's apple trees couldn't walk across to his neighbor's property like cows would, even if the wall was not there. ... (pg. 894) is an examples of a simile in which Frost uses the word "like" to compare the birch trees to girls even though we know there is virtually no way that a birch tree could be like a woman. ... In the line "Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more," (pg. 894) Frost italicizes "toward" to make a point to pay attention to th...

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In itself the phrase gives the feeling of some loss, easily in grasp but yet not. ... Poets all have certain styles where everyone is writing to their abilities but are able to make their poems differ from others giving them an enjoyable learning. ... If the poet could write it as the wind blew the pages of a book, the addition, gives the impression of an entity being there. But saying "a book of prints" we see it alone, not as pages that are symbolic to a tree with leaves, but as a tree with no leaves that is alone which is the main point being put across; emptiness. ... Furthermore, di...

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The poet chooses to personify the hawk to enable it to speak to us, to give a speech. ... "Hooked" gives us an image of power; that the hawk is able to hook anything that it wants. ... High up in the tree, he is able to live freely. ... The hawk's authoritative tone captures the reader's image in that we are forced to give him noble rank. ... But now he "holds creation in his foot"- he holds the tree limbs, the foundation of life under his grasp. ...

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The second Quatrain presents continued images of decay, "lofty trees barren of leaves- and "white and bristly beard-. ... Life turns to death, just as trees once tall and full of leaves are now "barren-. The narration continues to embellish on how life turns to death with a metaphor of trees once being full of leaves and life, have now grow old and fallen off. ... "Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,"" gives the impression that the sun makes the mountains appear more radiant than they actually are. ... This reference to alchemy gives rise to the idea of illusion, as alchemy was...

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In many of his poems, Robert Frost uses images of and nature, especially trees and forests, to convey his thoughts and emotions. ... Now, Frost never mentions how the trees in the forest are. One image is of calm, peaceful evergreens, the other, of trees that have gone bare in the fall, dark, and foreboding. ... The way Frost describes it, as "wanting wear" almost gives away which path the man will choose. ... They can actually see the lush greenery and looming trees that the man in the poem does. ...

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Sonnet 73 contains multiple parallels to death and the speaker gives the impression that he is near death and is reflecting on his past life. In the first quatrain, the poet uses the autumn season as a metephore for his progression in years; for as autumn progresses the leaves are " yellow, or none, or few,".The tree, personified as an aging man, leaves the reader with an image of a frail older man whose body is weakened and shivering with age... The reader should be aware the couplet contains no images or comparisons, giving the verse a somber realistic foreboding end in ...

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This gives the idea of the girl being unspoilt, virginal and pure. ... The poem goes on to describing the palm trees at Prestatyn and the coast. ... This hunk of coast' suggests manliness and the palm trees also suggest an erotic type of Eden. This gives the reader the illusion that Prestatyn will be the holiday of their dreams. ... This gives the image of death. ...

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The black man (raisin) refuses to give in and thus turns into a "sore". ... This imaginary urn is bordered with leaves and trees, men chasing women, a musician sitting under a tree, lovers, and a priest and his congregation leading a heifer to sacrifice. ...

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The poet compares himself to the yews and so to the death, I think because these animals live underground, and as human being they born and die; moreover he envies "the sullen tree" and "for thy stubborn hardihood" because the tree does not die and in my opinion he imagines to free himself from hishuman nature, represented by the blood, and therefore incorporating himself into nature. ...

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The Hurricane described in the poem was that of the Great Storm in 1987, which brought great destruction and havoc to England and its landscape, particularly the trees. ... She asks what the uprooting of the trees symbolises. ... She has come to this northern land so in a way she gives permission for the persona to feel at home there. ... She, too, along with her ideas, is being uprooted like the tree and perhaps being replanted in the new country. ...

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The author concentrates on giving autumn a personal and unique touch to allow readers to be able to see all the wonders of autumn. ... For example, at the end of four of the lines, the use of assonance also contributes to the languid sensation offered to the reader: " thatch-eaves-, " cottage-trees", " for the bees" and " will never cease". ... Also in the first stanza, the poet presents a new concept of autumn to the reader by articulating what the season does: Autumn is a "Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun, Conspiring with him", devising ways for the trees, and vines to bear fruit...

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The word play in this line gives an image to the reader, but there are words in here that have valid meanings. ... Lines four, five and six are all word choices from a theme to give examples of ways to write. ... Lines nine, ten and eleven give reference to an overview. "Over the tree and the long sweet cadence down, Over his head, make him scramble to pick up the meaning, And now, like a posy, a pretty one plump in his hands." ... The denotation of the word choices in the line give us this meaning, yet it still seems like a game. ...

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This almost gives the feel of a psychopath, yet he is only fulfilling his natural function. ... The hawk lists natural features: 'sun', 'air' and the 'tree', which he thinks exist only in as much as they are of 'advantage to me'. ... In the second verse the hawk says: `Nothing has changed since I began`, which gives the impression of time. ... The setting of the poem is literally in nature, as evident in the imagery of the sun, the `top of the wood`, `high trees` and `rough bark`. ... They both give the idea of humans being the most powerful beings t...

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The poem doesn't really give too much information referring that the poem isn't very detailed and lengthy. ... The poem seems to take place in the late autumn season in the cold where leaves begin to fall from trees. ... Within the first quatrain, he compares himself to the trees that are losing leaves in the cold. ... The quote "that time of year" trees losing their leaves, and the fire and the ashes all relate to him getting old while demonstrating an emotional feeling of it all. ...

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The poem shows the uniqueness of life and the power that is possess, "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees". ... Personally I think this is an entirely unfair statement, that doesn't give Thomas's work any justice at all. ...

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I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud Wandering Through Wordsworth's Poem William Wordsworth is a famous Romantic English poet known for his imagery. In his poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud," we can see his use of imagery and emotion at its best. This also happens to be one of my favorite poems. T...

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"The Lamb" is a poem that gives off an air of placidity with its flowing rhyme, child-like repetition, and soothing imagery. ... Trees were burned to help the rise of men, who had total disregard for their earth and led their lands with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of industry. ...

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He is saying that cutting down all the trees in the forests is not worth all the money because those trees provide so much pleasure and spirituality for so many people. ... In Hawaii, he learns some valuable lessons from the natives that make him stronger and give him more motivation to succeed. ...

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