When read out loud the lines, paragraphs and trains of thought seem to time themselves with the capacity of a person to speak. ... He wanted people to wake up from their shielded, hazy lives where lack of light clouded the views of the world and people lived with an movie screen pulled in front of their faces and believed what they saw was reality and never questioned for a moment why things were the way they were. ... Shorter lines represent short quick concise thoughts and long breathy paragraphs represent an idea much longer and more complicated. ... If Allen Ginsberg were to come back ...

• Word Count: 1238
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the last stanza the poet and some more people (which can be deduced from how he uses plurals in this and the next few lines) are sitting in front of a fire, the poet and other people are now feeling afraid because of the storm and can't do anything except sit gripping their hearts in fear and wait for the inevitable. ...

• Word Count: 788
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the first three lines, the narrator calls what he sees as a "little black thing among the snow" (Line 1) instead of a child, and asks him where his parents are. ... The first lines of the first stanza and the first couplet of the second stanza are identical in each poem; however, the way the poems develop is in sharp contrast due to the different use in diction and imagery in each poem. ... When "the sun is gone down, and the dews of night arise" (Lines 5-6), both nurses addressed the children to come home. ... " (Lines 7-8) In this context, the words "spri...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The more that the happiness of the Nightingale is shown by Keats as it "singist in summer of full fronted ease", the more pain it ultimately brings to the poet. ... They inherently show through lines such as "She dwells with Beauty- Beauty that must die" the inescapable truth of reality, that which Keats himself termed "misery, heartbreak, pain, sickness and oppression" and at the same time edged towards a greater divide in self, time and experience. ...

• Word Count: 2837
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate