"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. ...

• Word Count: 1545
• Approx Pages: 6

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 ...

• Word Count: 1717
• Approx Pages: 7
• 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