In this poem she describes emotions that transcend centuries. ... The pain is encased in one's nerves and heart much like death is encased in a tomb. It is a feeling that leaves her "stiff heart" dark, cold and devoid of any other emotion. ... The second stage of pain in the poem is "stupor." ... When reading this poem, anyone can relate a broken heart or a death in the family to the very feelings that she so powerfully communicates. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

as a representative poem for this discussion. ?... The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres? ... Here, Hardy has taken the romantic and soothing instrument of the lyre and described it as broken. ... At once a voice arose among The black twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. ... Throughout the poem the speaker has introduced the ideas of positive opposites to the following negatives: weakening eyes can strengt...

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• Grade Level: High School

THE BROKEN HEART Donne uses violent and fierce imagery to represent his viewpoint on the nature of love. The images created in The Broken Heart all share a sadistic characteristic. ... Donne opens the poem with the idea that love could eat ten people in one hour. ... Donne does not only think being "attacked" by love is harmful, but once love has chosen its victim it will destroy its heart like glass. ... By using imagery to show the heart a shattered glass shows that Donne has an ice-like heart and has a cold outlook towards love. ...

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They can even bring a subconscious connection to the poem when used correctly. ... While looking deeper into the poems, I began to see that the horse might symbolize more than that. In the poem "Anyone Who Had A Heart", Phillips talks about the idea of sex being a need rather than a want, and how it's desired. ... As you continue reading the poem, there is a line that says " now the foals, they're stallions. Like broken kings, they lower their heads, then raise them" (Phillips 52). ...

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• Grade Level: High School