In fact, I would like to think that to every poet, the metaphor is different. ... The poem is chalked full of every metaphor you can possibly imagine. ... Lines seventeen and eighteen read, "Your handful of notes;/ The clear vowels rise like balloons.... Line one starts off the piece with a well written metaphor, "Love set you going like a fat gold watch.... Analysis and Interpretation The metaphorical myriad that is Morning Song leaves much to be considered after reading. ...

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Analysis of figures of Speech and Poetic Devices. ... " This is not literal fire on her skin, but it's rather used to describe how the feeling of lustful desire is like heat. ... Line 38 "like amorous birds of prey," Marvell describes their symbiotic and playful co-existence like amorous birds of prey. The hyperbole (exaggeration) used by the character to exaggerate his feelings and emotions can be found in line 8 "Love you ten years before the flood.... Examples of caesuras can be found in line 2 (This coyness, my lady, were no crime) and in other lines such as, lin...

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But I guess I'm what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you: hear you, hear me--we two--you, me, talk on this page. ... Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ... I guess being colored doesn't make me not like the same things other folks like who are other races. ... You are white-- yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. ...

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But I guess I'm what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you: hear you, hear me--we two--you, me, talk on this page. ... Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ... I guess being colored doesn't make me not like the same things other folks like who are other races. ... You are white-- yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. ...

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In the next three paragraphs I will present some of the elements found in the poem, a description of each verse and finally my analysis. ... Here, you can appreciate not only his imagery way of narrating but also the mood these words evokes, which is calmed, very peaceful and naturalistic. This verse ends "like pure water touching clear sky.... Here is when you find the utopia more likely to be a dystopia, and our play in nature. ... It sounds to me like a communism between animals and humans, and controlled by a more powerful authority. ...

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An analysis of the astounding collection of poetry and stories by Robert Frost I find the themes of ironary, satire, and most of all nature to be present and persistent. ... You cannot use more satire then this. He is in both poems making the society around him seem both unintelligent and lost, he feels like he is superior to all others but at the same time he feels isolated from the world around him. ... He adds a touch of humor here as to think if the person cutting the grass would get along with the grass he is cutting , like they have to both work together to get the job done. ... A...

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You must choose whom you will serve today." Meaning you can't straddle the fence. You are either going to be on one side of the fence or the other. You may choose the straight and narrow path or the other, which is traveled by many. ... As a member of mankind, I join you and Mr. ...

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This line informs you about whom the characters in the play are and how many. ... This informs you that this has been going on for a long time, the word grudge meaning resentment, hostility and hatred, really makes sure that you know they are not the best of friends. ... The last meaning of civil is civilian which is a normal person, like the people in the families who are just normal people who have disagreements. ... These two rhyming lines mean that, if you listen patiently we will explain again what you have missed, so that you understand. ... The ending pattern of the prologue is differe...

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'You do not do, you do not do/ Any more, black shoe/ In which I have lived like a foot/ For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breath or Achoo', is the opening description provided by Plath of her circumstances in 'Daddy'. ... In this case, Hughes, the vampire 'who said he was you', is shown to have 'drank my blood for a year/ Seven years if you want to know.' ... In this case, like a phoenix, 'Out of the Ashes/ I rise with my red hair/ And I eat men like air.' ... This theme of worship is furthered in several other poems in B...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Then wherever the world loses you, in her you are the same. ... However, if a person is truly in love with you, they will not see you as a terrible person; but as the same person they fell in love with. ... In the last segment of the poem, Paterson states "and as you like there by her side, and feel the wet snout of her womb nuzzle and lather your fingertips-then you might recall your mother; or her who said she was your mother. " The "Letter to the Twins " touches on motherhood and the aspects of love one can achieve through motherhood. ... He notes on the individuals cool and motionless char...

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• Grade Level: High School

To know the essence of Walter Whitman, you would have to understand the heart of his writing. ... "Self-reliant, with haughty eyes, assuming to himself all the attributes of his country, steps Walt Whitman into literature, talking like a man unaware that there was ever hitherto such a production as a book, or such a being as a writer" . ... In the final analysis, it is perhaps impossible to say whether Whitman's sexual imagery derives from one unconscious or the other - or, indeed, from higher levels of consciousness. ... I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, tur...

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In the same way that adjusting the structure informs the analysis of the poem, the original form reflects content. ... In line three, the speaker questions, "You may have met him? Did you not" as if to prompt the readers' attention. ... This powerful shift in point of view is slow but deliberate, just like the snake's path through the grass. ... The hesitation in the persona's reasoning is targeted by the voices again as they hiss, "If you were not afraid, you would kill him!...

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It also shows that the speaker may not want to be like everybody else, a follower, but instead, chose a different road and be himself, a leader. This verse also says that the road wanted wear, like he was drawn to the path, not just out of his own desire to be different, but maybe out of some pity. ... If someone were standing at the edge of some woods you would not be able to clearly see what was ahead of you, because it would be obstructed by trees and branches. Life is like those woods because no one can clearly see or predict what will happen in the future, only hope to choose a path th...

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She was like a grandmother to me. ... This is starting to seem like a not so perfect marriage after all, one-sided. ... Browning is trying to count the ways she loves him but when you are in love words cannot be counted. ... This poem speaks of his lover almost like she is the perfect woman. ... Love is communicated via text or email it is no longer personal; it doesn't give you butterflies. ...

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The poem The Road Not Taken has been labeled as the classic conflict of life's decisions, however, critics like Jay Parini feel completely different. ... Parini argues that the speaker is saying, "When I am old, like all old men, I shall make a myth of my life. ... By his analysis of The Road Not Taken, Parini portrays his own cynical outlook on life. ... Every day people are faced with choices, and the outcome of those choices is vulnerable to life's "by chance" happenings, like the roads diverged in the yellow wood. ...

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He says that "certainty" and "fidelity" (faithfulness), just like innocent beauty, do not last forever. ... Besides the continuous language of love used by Auden to convey what he wishes to achieve with "Lullaby", it is also important to focus on poetic styles like rhyme, form and metre incorporated in the poem. ... The imperfect rhyme of the poem links with human imperfection and the idea that even the person you love has flaws and weaknesses. ... It is functional to note that the rhythmic lines changes later in the poem, just like the rhyme scheme. ... An impor...

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• Grade Level: High School