Rather than using rhymes, Masters preferred his free verse style of writing in his poetry, especially in Spoon River Anthology. Published by Masters, Spoon River Anthology was a book of 244 poems about deceased fictional citizens of a town named Spoon River. ... In the following "morsels" I will compare and contrast four poems from Spoon River Anthology. ... Jonas Keene is a man who only wanted the best for his children where as Albert Schirding also wanted the best for his children but he could not stand the fact that his children succeeded more than he did. ... His children were his...

• Word Count: 1363
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The diction as used by Rupert Brooke in The Soldier, is plain and non-descriptive, but calming and peaceful, for example, "washed by rivers", "blest by suns of home", "dreams happy as her day" and "hearts at peace". ... As for imagery, Rupert Brooke uses calm and peaceful images, to give the reader the image of pastoral and idyllic England, with words and phrases such as "suns of home", "washed by the rivers", "dreams happy as her day" and "hearts at peace, under an England heaven", he also gives the image of a body, with the words "hearts", "pulse" and "mind". ... Rupert Brooke, with his phra...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Finally, when the speaker proclaims "I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children," she tells the readers that she is being haunted by voices of her unborn children, thus expressing her pain and loss(lines 11-12). ... She might now see them as her unborn children. Later on in the stanza, the speaker once again changes her word usage when she now calls her children her "dears" and "sweets"(lines 13-14). ... In the first stanza she expresses those things that her unborn children will never be able to do. ... Upper Saddle River, Ne...

• Word Count: 1519
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Poems included, in addition to "Thanatopsis,", "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood," "Green River," and "To a Waterfowl." ... His first volumes of poetry, The Torrent and the Night Before (1896) and The Children of the Night (1897), contain psychological portraits of the townspeople of Tilbury, whose inner depths of character are presented with acute understanding and irony. ... He published his first poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," in Crisis magazine in 1921 and studied at Columbia University from 1921 to 1922. ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

London itself is constructed as a place of depravation where the people are weak and woeful ("and mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness, marks of woe") The is also the "chimney-sweeps" who are a symbol of poverty (especially since this job was done by children) showing just how hard it was in the struggle to survive. ...

• Word Count: 2284
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Meaning that if they could live their days being worry free like children and everything he is offering could be true and real, she would be happy to be his one and only. ... To the promises of living in a beautiful, serene and peaceful environment she emphasizes that time will drive the flocks away, winter will soon settle in and turn the quietly meandering river into a raging monster. ... "coral clasps"[Marlowe 18] and "river's rage" [Raleigh 6]) that it is quite easy for the reader to form a mental picture of what the speaker is trying to say. ...

• Word Count: 1449
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He was very concerned with working class children. ... They can no longer enjoy the world as carefree children, but are forced to live a life of burdens and hard labour. ... It stands for happiness, playfulness, joyfulness, God, angels, children and innocence. From poem 1, the fourth stanza and the first two lines of the fifth stanza display how white works as a positive element in contrast to black: And by came an Angel who had a bright key, And he open'd the coffins & set them all free; Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing they run, And wash in a river and shine in the Sun. ... ...

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

Times were tough financially for his family, but Walt often liked to distance himself from them and ride the ferries from East River to New York City. ... Some of the poems that followed a less transcendental and more emotional theme were "A Woman Waits for Me" and "Children of Adam" which shows his feelings of love and sexuality. ...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Cousin Kate" was written for the pleasure of writing a poem, but "The Seduction" was written for a children's poetry competition with the subject of "water", these facts must also be taken into consideration. ... There are boy problems involved even though the men in the poems were of a different class; in "Cousin Kate" the man was a very upper class lord whereas the man in "The seduction" was working class "He spat into the river, fumbled in a bag". ...

• Word Count: 1725
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Whitman was one of nine children and little is known about his youth except that two of his siblings were imbeciles. ... Getting to New Orleans required traveling over the Cumberland Gap and down rivers, of which he later wrote. ...

• Word Count: 1688
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School