It was her own conscious choice to deliberately withdraw from society into her upstairs room- (Tate 83). ... "Art forms were totally unknown to her, and nature was always viewed not in a cosmic way but in its smallest and most intimate forms" (Whicher 87). ... Her symbol of nature was death, and her only weapon against death was her faith (Tate 84). ... Allen Tate writes, "if it were necessary to describe her seclusion with disappointment in love there would remain the problem between what her seclusion produced and how it was viewed" (Tate 83). Her most vivid symbol would be nature, and thi...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"The dancers "and the observer share opposing points of view towards life. ... The room filled with "smoke and sweat", and "wonderful feel of girls", illustrates the atmosphere of the room with the dancers. ... The use of a lion as a symbol for the dancers illustrates a bias on the poet's point of view towards another social group that he considers inferior to himself, the observer. ... The speaker has an alternate view towards happiness. In stanza 3 he goes on to equate the call of the trumpet with Art. ...

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" (5-8) The abnormality and eerily calm ambience about this poem is almost deliberate; so when you take a first look it over its' form, structure and language it deftly composes a simplistic poem with nothing out of place – complete with no apparent literary devices that the reader would have trouble comprehending. This is the key factor which makes this poem stand out from the rest – because of its open nature and non-complex form that if you tried to search for any meaning or symbolism behind Frost's words, he has almost intentionally left a vast space for interpr...

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

Although defined differently by many, poetry can be viewed as a form of "literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.... Initially, Whitman presents his views on lingering American issues such as slavery, where he states, "know that they who have eyes are divine,/ and the blind and lame are equally divineI do not call one greater and one smaller.... It is interesting that Whitman opens his poem with a line characterized with a metric pattern when the ...

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• Has Bibliography

In the three sets of poems, "Infant Joy" and "Infant Sorrow", "The Chimney Sweeper", and "Nurse's Song", Blake explores the two disparate but connected perspectives of our human lives through vivid concrete imagery, powerful abstract symbols, and ingenious juxtaposition. ... The parents viewed the baby as "a fiend hid in the cloud" (Line 4), which shows the ingratitude of the parents towards the life of the newborn. ... On the contrary, the illustrations in Blake's original plate for "Infant Sorrow" are contrastingly in a d...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, this tendency has been balanced by other writers who have made use of popular forms in order to communicate with a wider audience. ... Eliot even furnished footnotes to help the reader with his The Waste Land. ... He brought home to British poets the significance of French experimental symbolists like Rimbaud, Verlaine, Laforgue, and Mallarme, and observed that with them literature 'becomes itself a kind of religion, with all the duties and responsibilities of the sacred ritual'. ... Such a rich use of language expresses a view of reality which is more fluid. ... Hardy was...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42