Sowing the reader that he understands the contrast between the permanence of the bird song and the impermanence of human life, Keats then, with very abrupt change of mood and meaning, returns to his daily consciousness with questions that he directs at his reader. ... In Ode to a Nightingale, Keats is called back from the contemplation of his central image to recognise issues of time and transience in a mundane reality. ... To this extent, Keats's imagination runs wild; but his thoughts unrelentingly compel him to retract from his imagined ecstasy. ... This experience, which is both inten...

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

But she must have the form first- Rossetti's heady, breathless form, this "paratactic piling up of noun on noun" which hastens the reader, along with Laura, towards the succulent temptations offered by the goblins is best illustrated in the goblins" descriptions of their tempting fruits: Apples and quinces Lemons and oranges, Plump unpecked cherries, Melons and raspberries, Bloom-down-cheeked peaches, Swart-headed mulberries, Wild free-born cranberries, Crab-apples, dewberries, Pine-apples, blackberries, Apricots, strawberries The poetic form of Goblin Market is irrevocably b...

• Word Count: 3193
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography

Surely, the theme of the poem, Arthur Henry Hallam's death provided him the excuse to question his faith in God and as well as in the rest of the poem, to question his faith in nature and poetry. ...

• Word Count: 5237
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. ... Modernism is essentially post-Darwinian: it is a search to explain mankind's place in the modern world, where religion, social stability and ethics are all called into question. ...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42

"What we call the beginning is often the end. ... Once he learned to read, the young boy immediately became obsessed with books and was completely absorbed in tales depicting savages, the Wild West, or Mark Twain's thrill-seeking Tom Sawyer. ...

• Word Count: 4134
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School