Also, it shows that memory works with nature during childhood and it works upon the mind even in adulthood. The memory in adulthood is not the exact same memory during childhood, thus he looks for compensation of the loss through nature and human life. ... Also, he cannot go back and relive the experience again which shows the break between past and present. ... Furthermore, he knows that these experiences will provide both of them future memories when they walk through the woods again. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The poem can be interpreted by looking at two different concepts, childhood versus adulthood and reality versus imagination. ... Another issue, in regards to the poem, would be the speaker's struggle between adulthood versus childhood. ... Although the central issue as adulthood versus childhood has good validity, the central issue is in fact the speaker's struggle between reality and imagination. ... Obviously from experience the speaker concludes that the droopiness of the trees was caused by an ice storm, because the speaker confirms to the audience that a boy's swinging o...

• Word Count: 1047
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• Grade Level: High School

The Songs of Innocence' portrays the nave hopes and fears that afflict the lives of children and trace their transformation into adulthood. ... The Songs of Experience' parallel poems from innocence to express the ways in which experience destroy what is good in innocence, whilst also expressing the weaknesses of an innocent perspective. ... This depicts the contrasts between "innocence- and "experience-. ... Through poems like The Lamb' and The Tyger' Blake presents the contrary states of innocence and experience. In Innocence the world depicted is an unspoilt ver...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," she uses various types of figurative language and imagery (personification, metaphor, and symbol) to portray the idea that death is not a dreadful event, but actually a pleasant experience. ... "Fields of Gazing Grain" is a symbol for adulthood or the long middle part of life. ... Also, people have the idea that the afterlife is a great experience, but Dickinson wants the reader to feel that the eternal life is boring. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For me, this is a piece which unashamedly celebrates the simple joys of childhood and gently mourns the erosion of such ecstasy as adulthood corrupts the innocence with the passage of time. ... Thomas tries to make us, as adults, feel as he feels - he knows that all adults share one common experience at least - we were all once children, so that:- we were all once delighted - none of us, as children, ever valued those fleeting pleasures within a greater whole - we are all nostalgic for something, someone or somewhere. ... Everything about this stanza implies the imagination and naivet&...

• Word Count: 994
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He put his new found drawing talent to use after he wrote the two books Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. ... Only five years later, Blake published the Songs of Experience, which he intended to be read together with the Songs of Innocence. ... The joyful happiness of a child's blind faith is opposed in "The Tyger" which appears in the Songs of Experience. ... It has been said that Blake believed that a person had to pass through an innocent state, like that of a lamb, and also absorb the contrasting conditions of experience, adulthood, like that of a tiger. Blake's vision ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Three romantic poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelly, have expressed their love nature and have used it to express values and experience. ... The same feeling he had as a child is not the same in adulthood. ...

• Word Count: 702
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• Grade Level: High School

Paul Laurence Dunbar The first African American poet to address Negro folk life was a man of many talents. This man wrote poems and newspaper articles and became nationally recognized for his lyrical prose and poetry style. Who is Paul Laurence Dunbar Why he is the man Dayton, Ohio proudly claims ...

• Word Count: 1139
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School