They would get up early in the morning to sweep dirty, black chimneys until night. ... When reading poem 1, I was left with the impression that the speaker was innocent, nave and a good-natured little boy. ... They would simply be replaced by another and possibly even younger boy. ... There are two colours that dominate each poem - black and white. ... Blackness has devoured all parts of the chimney sweepers lives. ...

• Word Count: 2076
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

In "The Chimney Sweeper" from Songs of Innocence, the narrator, a little boy who is in his innocence and youth, is unaware of how difficult his life is. ... In the first three lines, the narrator calls what he sees as a "little black thing among the snow" (Line 1) instead of a child, and asks him where his parents are. The rest of the poem is the little boy's response – they are in "praising God & his Priest & King" (Line 11) in church. In contrast to the narrator in the previous poem, this little boy is aware of his woeful plight, and understands that...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Pope uses emotional black mail in the third line, "Your country is up to her neck in a fight" Pope compares the country to a helpless woman. ... The young boy sits in the park watching children play - reminding him of his youth, that wasn't that long ago. ... Evening time blossomed with enjoyment "when glow lamps budded" this is a contrast from stanza one as evening now means "waiting for dark" As all young men, women are very important to them, "girls glanced lovelier " shows sadness as this young man would have looked forward to a normal relation ship with a women but now, "He w...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Pope uses emotional black mail in the third line, "Your country is up to her neck in a fight" Pope compares the country to a helpless woman. ... The young boy sits in the park watching children play - reminding him of his youth, that wasn't that long ago. ... Evening time blossomed with enjoyment "when glow lamps budded" this is a contrast from stanza one as evening now means "waiting for dark" As all young men, women are very important to them, "girls glanced lovelier " shows sadness as this young man would have looked forward to a normal relation ship with a women but now, "He w...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basualto, more commonly known as Pablo Neruda, began his widely renowned career in poetry as a young boy. ... According to Isabella Sobejano, author of "Author, Poet, Thinker, Chilean Politician and Diplomat," she stated that on her visit to one of three homes Neruda had, the majority of his time was writing and living in Isla Negra (meaning Black Island). ... Oh the black cross of a ship. ... The "black cross of a ship," according to WikiAnswers.com, means that the place or thing is haunted by some spirit. ... The black cross of a ship in this p...

• Word Count: 1395
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The responder can see there that the father is blind to the boys needs, he can only see that the boy continues to love him and believes that that is all that matters. ... They arrive from America believing that they are a superior race and above all blacks. ... The girls realise that they are going to have to accept their black counterparts, as there is no other children to play with. ...

• Word Count: 1417
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the Songs of Experience version, the narrator introduces the boy chimney sweep as no more than a 'little black thing'. ... In first two verses of both the Innocence and the experience Chimney Sweeper poems, Blake employs basic colour imagery to contrast the 'little black thing' with the white of the snow, which represents the purity of the childhood that the sweep has had taken away from him. The sweep's clothes are 'clothes of death' not just because the soot has turned them black, the colour of mourning, but also because the soot will soon kill the chil...

• Word Count: 1564
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She had an affair and the boy isn't the husband's son. ... This is portrayed when he says, "Petals on a wet, black bough" (Pound 790). ... It is relating a flower, "Petals on a wet, black bough" (Pound 790), to something of deeper meaning and that's the meaning of art. ...

• Word Count: 1594
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• Grade Level: High School

l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a ...

• Word Count: 1931
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The boy only wants to please his mother, this also symbolises Australians urge to please America. ... The black and white colouring of the advertisement is reminiscent of the 50s when all women were glamorous and feminine. ...

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The language used in this line creates a very clear image - it is almost as if they are in a black and white movie, expressionless simply "rehearsing" their lines, in this case being the children's names and birthdays. ... O where's the demon lover, the wild boy who kissed the future to her flesh beneath what skies, what stars, what space! ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I refer to these poems as "early" because they are considered here are a selection of well known verses published in the eleven years (1913-1923) spanned by Frost's first four books: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, and New Hampshire. ... Because the poem says: "the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black" Meaning: neither of the roads is less traveled by! ...

• Word Count: 1699
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School