The diction as used by Rupert Brooke in The Soldier, is plain and non-descriptive, but calming and peaceful, for example, "washed by rivers", "blest by suns of home", "dreams happy as her day" and "hearts at peace". ... As for imagery, Rupert Brooke uses calm and peaceful images, to give the reader the image of pastoral and idyllic England, with words and phrases such as "suns of home", "washed by the rivers", "dreams happy as her day" and "hearts at peace, under an England heaven", he also gives the image of a body, with the words "hearts", "pulse" and "mind". ... Rupert Brooke, with his phra...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thomas tries to make us, as adults, feel as he feels - he knows that all adults share one common experience at least - we were all once children, so that:- we were all once delighted - none of us, as children, ever valued those fleeting pleasures within a greater whole - we are all nostalgic for something, someone or somewhere. ... We recall those kinfolk people who loved us as children, their closeness and kindness; their voices, smells and faces. ... On the ride (real or imagined), I would dangle "daisies and barley" as I passed the trees as the sun reflected off the sheen of the apples ...

• Word Count: 994
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Times were tough financially for his family, but Walt often liked to distance himself from them and ride the ferries from East River to New York City. ... Some of the poems that followed a less transcendental and more emotional theme were "A Woman Waits for Me" and "Children of Adam" which shows his feelings of love and sexuality. ...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate