The second and third stanzas of the poem, depicts the journey founded through the transitioning from sleep to their awakening. ... Slessor creates a personal approach through the use of the inclusive word, "you," allowing the audience to further identify and be inclusive on this journey. ... A continued journey of the foetus is displayed through the symbol of the, "belly," depicting the literal image of pregnancy emphasising this journey of childbirth, a mother goes through before meeting her child. Thus, through the second and third stanzas, Slessor's depiction of a m...

• Word Count: 684
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Textual forms and features clearly illustrate his intellectual and emotional journey of coming to terms with change. ... The emotional and intellectual journey towards an acceptance of change is clearly portrayed in 'The Second Coming'. ... Through comparison of the two texts, our understanding of Yeat's emotion and cerebral journey of coming to terms with change is heightened, as we notice a shift in paradigm of rejection to acceptance....

• Word Count: 1286
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By using a great deal of poetic techniques, imagery and his own unique touch, Bruce Dawe has depicted the aspects of the journey soldiers of the Vietnam War have endured and its devastation upon society. The poem as a whole suggests the reality that journeys are not always pleasant regardless of what it seems and effectively, comprised of a blissful ending. ...

• Word Count: 951
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fixed leg of compass represents constancy and fidelity of the woman, and the assurance of her firmness gives Donne the power to make his own circle true: both loving her with equal constancy, and throughout his journey moving along a line that must bring him back to his starting point in her. ...

• Word Count: 511
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In twenty-five lines of dramatic and shocking poetry, Bruce Dawe's "Homecoming" manipulates the audience to view the tragedies of war and the lack of respect that is given to those who fight within it. A methodical production line of bodies is created with the use of "-ing" throughout the first l...

• Word Count: 504
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fixed leg of compass represents constancy and fidelity of the woman, and the assurance of her firmness gives Donne the power to make his own circle true: both loving her with equal constancy, and throughout his journey moving along a line that must bring him back to his starting point in her. ...

• Word Count: 519
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An Ironic Twist The intent of the poets who wrote what we today call slave poetry is as varied as the content they address. Some of the poems transform slavery from a distant incident to a personal trial through a story telling approach while others teach the atrocities of slavery to the masses by...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Alexander Pope has long been considered one of the greatest satirists that English literary tradition has ever seen. His methods of satire are original and unique from those of the traditional Augustan poet, and his comments on the ideals and morals of his contemporaries have provided us with a valuable insight into Augustan lifestyles. Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" has its foundation in an amorous joke played by the young Lord Petre on Miss Arabella Fermor. The ensuing rift between the two prominent aristocratic families caused a mutual acquaintance to approach Pope, wi...

• Word Count: 2068
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The sexual instinct has been a staple in lyric poetry since its early stages in the work of Greek poets, leading all the way to the contemporary and modern lyricists of today. Lyrical libido refers to the development of the sexual nature in poems as a literary devise using erotic allusion, narrative...

• Word Count: 1123
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their composure where they're "least disposed to ascribe" (15) shows how unlikely it is for them to blame the man for this occurrence, since "[they] assumed that the man himself or someone he had to obey" (17-18) had purposely orchestrated the event so that they could "walk the rest of the way" (20) on their journey. ...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One of Walt Whitman's earliest memories was when General Lafayette, a French hero in the American Revolution, picked him up out of a crowd and hoisted him onto his shoulder and paraded him around Brooklyn. This memory signifies the times in which Whitman was born, May 31, 1819; when America had jus...

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

English poetry of the early 20th century The end of the 19th century witnessed unprecedented outbreak of drastic changes caused by the intensifying contradictions between the antiquated social order and the demands of the time. Those contradictions touched upon practically every sphere of social ...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Keats's Odes of May 1819 articulate a Profoundly Divided Self." Discuss. The poetry of John Keats articulates an astonishing literary liturgy, which has influenced much of the study of nineteenth century literature; though during his short lifetime he was deemed to be a "lower class cockney," and an ignorant, unsettled "pretender" to a higher culture. Barnard (1999) asserts that Keats is one of the great English romantic poets, whose prime belief was in art and beauty. The most famous of Keats's poems, the Odes, can be seen to reflect the notion that he was a poet preoccupied by...

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