While Mrs Midas is feeling terrorised and trying to separate herself from her husband, Midas is "turning the spare room into the tomb of Tutankhamun". ... Medusa is a very powerful and compelling poem, in which Duffy manages to make readers change their feelings about Medusa throughout the piece.  ... Duffy allows readers to draw connections between her characters and reality, which I feel is very important as it shows that a piece of fiction can have relevance to real life. ...

• Word Count: 1489
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This piece of writing contains two very powerful lines at the beginning and end of the poem: "The child's wisdom is in saying, they say what they see when they see it." ... The fourth poem "from ODE: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" by William Wordsworth is separated into two stanzas. ...

• Word Count: 1351
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Wilfred Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est about the first World War, in which he had personally fought. It was addressed to Jessie Pope, a writer of other poems concerning the War. Specifically he wrote the poem to counteract her poem "Who's For The Game?". Owen felt that Pope did not comprehend the s...

• Word Count: 2354
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

A path from romanticism to modernism. The stylistic evolution of Yeats" travels through several stages across his career. Initially as a young poet, Yeats wrote much literary ornate verse. From his first publication in 1885 he"d been much influenced by the pre-Raphaelites. A group of artists a...

• Word Count: 2111
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School