His fascination with mortality shows up in his poetry, The Lucy Poems, for instance are a series of poems about a young girl who may or may not been a figment of Wordsworth imagination who ultimately dies. ... In the year date of April 23 1850 at the age of 80 William Wordsworth died of an aggravated case of pleurisy in which the lining surrounding the lung inflames and when breathing the two inflamed lungs rub against each other causing sharp pain. ... William Wordsworth complains that "the world" is too overwhelming for us to appreciate it: "Getting and spending, we lay waste ...

• Word Count: 2404
• Approx Pages: 10

While this man is indeed giving her a flower, it is a dying flower. ... In the second stanza her find out this other lover has died. "When I saw your corpse in your coffin, I flung back your flower to you; it was all of yours I ever had; you may keep it, and-keep from me" (801). ... "He gazed, and felt, for him, all beauty lay buried with her forever" (799). ... "Where are the people, O Lord...And the dead whom once I knew?" ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

At first this seems absurd but it is made to work by Donne laying out plainly how he came to the conclusion that the flea is the same as sex. ... In lines 12-13 three more metaphors are stated as the flea is compared to "you and I", "our marriage bed", and "marriage temple". ... Donne goes on to plead the flea's case as he continues to use metaphors to show how terrible it would be if the flea died. ... The metaphor in this poem that I find especially engaging comes in line 25 when Donne compares the two lovers to a compass. ... Another example of these contradictions is in line 13 wh...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

When I first saw the title I was not expecting it to be about a funeral because a lot of people relate to mid-term break as being a good thing. ... The family member that died was a brother or sister to the boy that the author is talking about. In the essay I am going to look at the use of language the author uses. ... Stanza seven tells you how the boy or girl died. There is not much description of the body in this stanza, as you would expect: "Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple, He lay in the four-foot box as in his cot. ...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The poets begin their poems with easy grace "I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed", "lay down to rest on a bare hillside" yet with concentrated power. ... In "Vulture", the water in "the ocean" and the "sea light" over the precipice could represent life and fertility; the life of the man, who in his mind, thinks he's going to die. ... The first word in the poem; "I", is repeated throughout the poem, emphasizes the hawk's proud attitude. ... The hawk's philosophy of life is very clear; other creatures must die for it to live. Aware of the lack of remorse that such creatur...

• Word Count: 1305
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Baudelaire's "A Carrion" is a fine example of melancholy, as it is expressed by nature and the natural process of dying and decaying. ... The poem begins with what appears to be a couple walking along during a nice summer day, and there they saw the object that was the dead animal that was laying belly up on the side of the road with its legs spread like a prostitute. ... This brings about the realization that we are all to die, and nothing can be done to prevent it. ... This means that the same thing will happen to us when we die, we will be given back to Nature. The very last stanza see...

• Word Count: 1751
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874 and he died in Boston on January 29, 1963. ... Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died on January 29, 1963 in Boston (Frost). ... Before I came to view the leveled scene. I looked for him behind an isle of trees; I listened for his whetstone in the breeze. ... And once I marked his flight go round and round, As where some flower lay withering on the ground. ...

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

The only problem is that they lay "cold and low" or unnourished or not elevated. ... Thus, implying that the power has to stay within people in order for death to become a "dying flame-. ... At one point he cries out to God to reveal himself, saying "I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed [religion]; I was not heard "I saw them [the dead] not-. ...

• Word Count: 1748
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I also think the he chose to use a sonnet is because Romeo and Juliet is about love and this is what sonnets were used for. ... The second line "In fair Verona (where we lay our scene)," tells you where the play is set. ... I think they took their life because when one dies the other cannot stand life without them so takes their own life. ... I think the use alliteration makes you notice the words and makes thinking easier. ... Overall I think that that the prologue for "Romeo and Juliet" outlines the storyline very well for the audiences benefit. ...

• Word Count: 1721
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I enjoy this poem, because it displays Frost's capacity for independent thought. ... I think that the unstructured nature of this poem is a reflection on its sentiment. ... He says "die early and avoid the fate" and if you are to lead a long life then "make the whole stock exchange your own". ... However, like all of his poems, this poem can be read on a metaphorical level and beneath the cynicism lays truth and reason. ... Frost says "I found a dimple spider, fat and white on a white heal-all". ...

• Word Count: 2104
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School