Similarly, Carol Anne Duffy's poem Love, penned for her novel-length poem Rapture published in 2005, comments on the unpredictability of love's nature; an immortal, white-winged dove incapable of subjugation. ... Perhaps the natural element in the poem could be an allegory for the addressee of the poem, and that he/she too embraced death as the leaves adored the wind. ... In the fourth and final stanza, Duffy renders the poem with a uniquely framed triplet. ... A pseudo-dénouement if you will, Duffy concludes the poem with a rather ambiguous ending; the reader is left complete...

• Word Count: 1990
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Bishop starts off the poem with such light-heartedness and playfulness, that the reader automatically starts to view loss as a natural and unimportant ritual. The first stanza gives the poem an instructional structure to it, where the reader is the student and Bishop the teacher. ... The poems irony comes out through Bishops use of rhyming, rhythm, syntax, tone, and structure. ... This rhyme scheme gives the poem a cheerful beat, which was Bishop's intent to cover up the seriousness of the poem. The number of lines (19), stanzas (6), repeated lines ("The art of losing isn't hard to ...

• Word Count: 799
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With the use of similes, symbols, meter, structure, rhyme, connotation Rich created her poem, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers. Adrienne Rich uses a number of similes and symbols in the poem to convey her theme. ... In addition, the verb prance' is also used symbolically in the poem, both in the first stanza of the poem to describe the tigers in Aunt Jennifer's screen, and in the final line of the poem to create a proud, strong image of the tigers; so fittingly symbolic of Aunt Jennifer's dreams and desires for herself. ... The rhyme scheme in the poem is very basic: AABB CCDD E...

• Word Count: 1074
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These devices all contribute in their different forms to our establishment of meaning from the poem. ... Possibly the most emotive image in the poem is the reference to "part of my blood's country." ... This view is assisted by the rhyming pattern, or lack of one, evident in the poem. ... Alternatively, Woman to Man, the second of the poems, shows a regular rhyming pattern and rhythm. ... While the poem relies mainly on emotion, it also introduces paradox into it. ...

• Word Count: 1399
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His poem "Sleep" can be interpreted mainly in one of two ways. ... The poem's textual integrity allows for both interpretations to be supported through techniques founded within the text. ... " begins to point to the poem being an illustration of the process of childbirth. With solid evidence for both interpretations of the meaning behind the poem, one could find themselves lost in trying to understand the poem. ... Slessor's poem Sleep is written in such a way that the reader can interpret it in more than one way. ...

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It had caused a social uproar and rage, because of the references of his bisexuality in the poem. Despite these critics and uproars, he still continued to write his poems for many years on. For many of his poems, such has, O Captain, My Captain, he writes in a dark, mourning tone in his poems, for example, "Fallen Cold and Dead" (Poetry Foundation 1). As in the poem O Captain, My Captain, he writes the poem in a very interesting manner. ... It is also known that Whitman was known as the "Father of Free Verse," but his poem doesn't contribute to this. ...

• Word Count: 672
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

William Williams has captured this extreme alienation coupled with the horrible despair it has laid upon a woman in a beautifully poignant poem simple in verse yet vast in emotion. Williams' poem is one of irony and the title of this poem, "The Widow's Lament in Springtime,"" foreshadows the sad irony of this poem very well. ... The persona Williams has created in this poem has a pensive and melancholically saturated tone. ... Lines four through six also contain two other poetic elements that are very important to a poem of this form, alliteration and repetition. Alliteration ex...

• Word Count: 978
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate