The most captivating of all poems are love poems, especially when they are telling you of how beautiful you are. ... Song of Solomon is one of many books of the bible, but it deals solely with a woman and man proclaiming their love for each other through poetry. Poems also come in many forms, the obvious love poem, poems of despair, envy, thankfulness, paranoia, and any emotion known to man. When all of these emotions are wrapped up in sentence be it together or apart it is defiantly a beautiful thing. ... Summer is chosen because it is the loveliest and the most pleasant season. ...

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In the poem, "After Apple-Picking," by Robert Frost, a man has been picking apples all day on a ladder. ... The season of winter and sleep both represent the later stages in someone's life and death. ... The man has probably been waiting all summer for this crop of apples, although now that they are ripe and ready he realizes just how much work will need to be done. ... Even with all of this, he is left unfulfilled. Another theme that is seen in After Apple Picking is death by the seasons. ...

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He uses the season of summer as a basis of comparison to the person he is writing about. ... In Sonnet 97, Shakespeare also uses one of the four seasons as a metaphor. ... Even though it is presently autumn, and autumn is considered the most beautiful of all the seasons, he feels dark and empty inside because they have been separated. ... Even though Shakespeare has said all of these things that are unflattering about his "Mistress", he still loves her. Unlike poems that are written in declaration of a woman or man's outer beauty, this sonnet is focused on the inner beauty that the "Dark...

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In "The Sunne Rising," the poet John Donne dramatizes the conflict between the sun and the speaker, an egotistical young man in bed with his lover. ... He asks the sun what gives it authority to intrude on his time with his lover, saying, "Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?... He goes on to say that while the sun may control the seasons, it does not control love because love knows no seasons, "nor houres, days, months, which are the rags of time" (10). He is telling the sun off by saying that its seasons hold no bearing when it comes to love. ... He says, "Pr...

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In the first quatrain, the poet uses the autumn season as a metephore for his progression in years; for as autumn progresses the leaves are " yellow, or none, or few,".The tree, personified as an aging man, leaves the reader with an image of a frail older man whose body is weakened and shivering with age... ("This thou percev'st,") "This" the sonnet, will compell you to appreciate and love all the more that which you will soon have to leave in death. ...

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I can see the orange, yellow and red leaves, lying all around. ... In "Birches", the season is both summer and winter. ... These seasons are ones that we sometimes use to represent the latter stages in life. ... I get the idea that this is a man, out on an important mission. ... This indicates a level of responsibility that would suggest the narrator is a man. ...

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Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden's poem Those Winter Sundays retells a grown man's perspective of his father. The speaker is the man remembering his Father waking up early in the morning before sunrise to make a fire in their home. ... I felt that it was a realization in the last two lines for the speaker who is now a man. He has realized now what his Father did for his family all those Sundays. ... The title is the first image describing a season. ...

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In the 2nd quatrain ; the poet is conscious of the passing of Time as it's mentioned the process of the seasons and doesn't think he can hold back Time, and therefore allows it to do whatever he wishes. ... The couplet is used as a turning point to tell us that immortal youth can be achieved for "my love-- the young man- by means of verses in his poetry. ... DETAILED ANALYSIS In the 1st line the poet makes use of a recorded proverb of the age, "Time devours all things-. ... Lines 2 and 4 share the same idea - L2 The earth devours her own children in the sense that they all retu...

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He begins in the present with a symbolic/metaphorical reference to 'autumn' years of life observing that "All's changed" as he reaches the "twilight" of life. Yeats' confinement within the metaphoric 'dry' 'woodland paths' of time and the seasons is contrasted with the mysteriously changeless swans. ... The freedom, innocence and enthusiasm that is seen in the 'children's eyes' on Yeats visit are juxtaposed against the 'sixty-year old smiling' man, catalysing his reverie. ...

• Word Count: 892
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• Grade Level: Graduate