The book was published in 1965, nearly two years after the author's death by suicide. ... The child tries a "handful of notes" and Plath relates the sounds of the vowels to a group of balloons rising. ... Lines seventeen and eighteen read, "Your handful of notes;/ The clear vowels rise like balloons.... Not to mention the beautiful simile that ends the poem, "Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like balloons....

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

A Caxton is a book representative of the 1st English printed material by William Caxton - Raine is illustrating a book. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

A Caxton is a book representative of the 1st English printed material by William Caxton - Raine is illustrating a book. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Following the publication of her first book of complete works, Lowell began to write in a style which she thought to be her very own. ... One year after her death, Amy Lowell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in recognition of the last book she had written and published: "What's O"clock." ... (Lowell, Amy, 449) In "Meeting-House Hill," Amy Lowell makes note of this "meeting house" only once, but rather she focuses on the sites surrounding the building. ...

• Word Count: 2108
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In 1936 the poet even attached Notes on the Waste Land to the edition in order to explain the work's many quotations and allusions. ... His most famous and popular work of that kind is Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), which was later assumed as a source of the modern musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber (the musical was first staged in London in 1981 and was on for 21 years, enjoying great éclat, until it was taken off in 2002)...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Garnet writes " he secures a pervading feeling of the mass and movement and elusive force of nature" He continues on "For instance, the reader will note how the feeling of the mountain's might bulk and hanging mass, its vast elbowing flanks, its watching domination of the near fields and scattered farmsteads, begins to grow upon him, till he too is possessed by the idea of exploring its high ravines, its fountain springs and granite terraces." ... Who hasn't seen a forest, either first hand, or in a book? ...

• Word Count: 1767
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

At the time this book was published it failed to arouse interest at the time, but it has since come to be known as his masterpiece English poet, literary critic, and philosopher, William Wordsworth helped launch the Romantic age in English literature towards the end of the 18th century in Europe with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. ...

• Word Count: 2404
• Approx Pages: 10

This is reminiscent of the intervention of Aphrodite in Book V of Homer's "Iliad" to remove her son Aeneas from the battlefield. ... We see them also in their role as followers, Belinda's army, just as an epic hero would have his faithful servants we see how "To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, / We trust the important charge, the petticoat" . ...

• Word Count: 2068
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate