In this article, Robert Graybill analyzes the deeper meaning of the poem The Dream of the Rood. He goes beyond the basic literary analysis to delve into a deeper aspect of the poem, showing how it reveals a great deal about not only the religiosity of the Anglo-Saxon culture which produced it, but the complexity and richness of that culture as well. ... To fully understand how the poem achieves this, it will be necessary to give a background on first the Anglo-Saxon people as a whole, and then on the poem itself, followed by an analysis of how the poem reveals the true depth of Anglo-Saxon ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Wallace Stevens attempts to write in an emotionless and literal point of view in his poem "The Snowman", whereas William Wordsworth's poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" displays quite the opposite, with countless metaphors and exaggerations of the reality. But which poem exhibits a more honest appreciation of nature? ... On a spectrum of the level of reality, these poems display the two extremes. ... The extent of analysis, allowed me to realize appreciation is closely tied to emotions. ... This proves that he himself understands the poem is unrealistic and dishone...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Upon the careful of examination and analysis of Bradstreet's first literary work, The Prologue, there are several different quotes that should be discussed due to the fact that they give the impression that they are challenging the Puritan ideals. ... In simpler terms it can be concluded that in this stanza of her poem, Bradstreet is stating how she is obnoxious to those who believe she should be doing the simple duties of a common woman. ... The specific quote is found within the first few lines of the poem and states, Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, who after birth didst...

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Young adult readers often overlook poetry and view it as dated and monotonous. Ellen Hopkins is a contemporary novelist who has found a way to intrigue the minds of young adults using poetry in her numerous verse novels. Hopkins often uses intense themes such as drug addiction, mental illness, abuse...

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Imagery is used both in prose and poems. ... Visualization using imagery normally appears in prose than poems. There are good completely imageless poems, imagery should not be confused with actual visual image-making. ... All these distinctions between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. ...

• Word Count: 5585
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate