An example of this is that in each, there is some sort of conflict between man and natures representations i.e. the knight and the faery, the boy and the rat, and also the man and the deer. ... The quote itself actually is a good example of how Keats brings about a cold feel to the poem at this point, which is ironic as we associate cold temperatures with loss. ... Also, the fantasy style poem brings about a strong contrast with the style used in the more recent poems of Hughes and Heaney, who have chosen to use more realistic representations in their poems with the boy and the man, and th...

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The boy and his mother went to live with his grandfather in Lawrence, Mass. ... There were published the two collections that at last brought Frost recognition: A Boy's Will', published in 1913, and North of Boston'(1914). ... Other poems followed about the Civil War. ... It is clear that this is a poem about the Civil War. ... This poem is about the wartime letters to his mother. ...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

There is a contrast between the concept of the 'well balanced families' and the 'boy puking his heart out'. ... Larkin describes 'the boy', 'a pensioner', 'dying smokers' and 'going dark' to describe a progression from young to old age. ...

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The intensity of Wordsworth's passion for nature elevated him from a boy into the inspiring man and poet in which he is recognized to be today. ... The setting is mainly talked about in the first paragraph, Brain Barbour states "paragraph one presents the world of nature" (Brian Barbour p.152). ... The Wye Valley is said to be a place of great beauty in which one could easily begin to question themselves about what they know and understand about the awesome tranquility and peacefulness of nature. ... One can derive from the poem that it was written or speaks about a time during the spring...

• Word Count: 2680
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

(Breslin 225) However, "Throughout the long history, poetry has relied on evolving rules about what a poem is, with new kinds of poetry building on earlier kinds to create greater possibilities of expression"(qtd in Where the Arts Live n pag.). ... It includes anecdote about buses and hitchhiking which were all parallels of Kerouac's experiences. ... I haven't told you much about myself. I am [the] smallest boy in class. ... They afford me great pleasure and they are about the only relief from boredom which seems to hang around me like a shadow. ...

• Word Count: 4095
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Once he learned to read, the young boy immediately became obsessed with books and was completely absorbed in tales depicting savages, the Wild West, or Mark Twain's thrill-seeking Tom Sawyer. ... Everything about his poetry bespeaks high modernism: its use of myth to undergird and order atomized modern experience; its collage-like juxtaposition of different voices, traditions, and discourses; and its focus on form as the carrier of meaning. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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