He was one of America's leading 20 twentieth Century poets often associated with rural New England. ... While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work. ... Men work together, the speaker says, whether they work together or apart. ... The presence of syntactical energies and of larger rhythmic units makes poem feel less purely song-like, and gives it solid sympathy. ... While reading the poem the audience hears something like a song, especially because of the rhyme scheme of AA, BB, and CC. ...

• Word Count: 1806
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He also produced several stirring patriotic war songs-"Ye Mariners of England", "The Soldier's Dream", "Hohenlinden" and in 1801, "The Battle of Mad and Strange Turkish Princes".[1] Born on High Street, Glasgow in 1777, he was the youngest of the eleven children of Alexander Campbell (1710–1801), son of the 6th and last Laird of Kirnan, Argyll, descended from the MacIver-Campbells. ... It is a rhetorical and didactic poem in the taste of his time, and owed much to the fact that it dealt with topics near to men's hearts, with the French Revolution, the partition of Pola...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

This pro-war poem aims to persuade vulnerable young men to join the army. ... Pope uses striking lines comparing war to sport it is a new way to "play for England" the poem is very jingoistic with a regular beat and an alternative rhyming pattern. ... Jessie Pope recognises that if she compares war to something young men enjoy, then the men will familiarise themselves with war and they will wonder why they often questioned the fear of fighting. ... Young men would like to be seen as brave than "sit tight " at home in safety. ... Owen uses irony in the fourth line "saddening like a hymn" - A...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This pro-war poem aims to persuade vulnerable young men to join the army. ... Pope uses striking lines comparing war to sport it is a new way to "play for England" the poem is very jingoistic with a regular beat and an alternative rhyming pattern. ... Jessie Pope recognises that if she compares war to something young men enjoy, then the men will familiarise themselves with war and they will wonder why they often questioned the fear of fighting. ... Young men would like to be seen as brave than "sit tight " at home in safety. ... Owen uses irony in the fourth line "saddening like a hymn" - A...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Between 1848 and 1855 he developed the style of poetry that won praise from Ralph Waldo Emerson and earned readers in England. ... The opening paragraph of his self-evaluation "A Backward Glance O"er Travel"d Road", begins with his reminiscences of "the best of songs heard". His concluding comments again return to thoughts about music, saying that "the strongest and sweetest songs remain yet to be sung". ... s one the few truly great American men of letters. ...

• Word Count: 1529
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School