The poems, "Complaint to Four Angels" and "Man Bites Dog-Days," by Ogden Nash are both affectionate vignettes of the American life and domestic routines that evocatively captures their respective states. ... Thus, it is essential to explore how the light verse and humor in Nash's poetry reflects and contributes to the everyday lifestyle of American society. ... "Complaint to Four Angels" has a title that sounds sophisticated as it addresses a power higher. ... The ninth stanza begins with, "The angels who should guard my bed I fear are slumbering inst...

• Word Count: 1201
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Irony is a significant device used by the poets in the slavery poems "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "The Dying Fugitive," and "Middle Passage." "On Being Brought from Africa to America" is a piece from the celebrated African poetess Phillis Wheatley. ... /Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,/May be refin"d, and joined th" angelic train (lines 5-8). ... Robert Hayden was one of the best twentieth century poets and was the first black poet to be chosen as a consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress a position commonly referred to as the American equivalent of the Bri...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"I think it is one of the dilemmas of being an American poet, that perhaps even if you are famous, you are more famous for being famous than if people know your poetry," Dunn mentioned in a past interview. ... New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994, Landscape at the End of the Century, 1991, and Between Angels, 1989. ... The editor and American Book Award winning poet Daniela Gioseffi had the following to say about Dunn's poetry: "Stephen Dunn's poetry is interesting because it is accessible, yet highly wrought with nuance. ...

• Word Count: 1020
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Before Bierce wrote this short story, he was first lieutenant during the American Civil War. ... In comparison to "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe, Poe uses unrealistic description of setting to emphasize his point "With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, went envying her and me- [2]" Bierce's literary work of realism shows that death is inevitable, but what separates life from death? ...

• Word Count: 959
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate