The most important images in the poem however are the children and the sense of family in the final stanza. After the children have wearied and the day draws to a close, their mothers and their "many sisters and brothers" are all compared to "birds in their nest," who "Are ready for rest" (27-28). This comparison represents a peaceful end of the day with the children safely returning home to their caring mothers and families. ... The word chartered implies that every street and even the Thames River are no longer pure images of nature because they have been tainted by society. ... A happie...

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In regards to my family, in 20 years I plan on being happily married and have at least 2 children. ... I would like to give back to my children what my parents gave to me when I was a child; respect, security, comfort, and love. ... I will be a Scoutmaster (adult leader) for a local Boy Scout troop and organize special days for clean-ups of rivers and woods, as well as other activities that are beneficial for the community. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At this time, the industrial revolution was underway and there was vast growth in the population, due to medical advances and people having more children. ... He personifies the sun, river and the city. ... He continues this simile giving the river 'a will', something which is unique to people. ...

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The imagery suggests that not only do the streets of London have to follow the rules but that the River Thames has to be regulated as well. The lawmakers have tamed and controlled a free flowing river. ... It shows that even children were subjected to the crimes of London. ...

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A man of great poetry once lived a long time ago. His great words inspired many people. The poet had strong talent when it comes to writing poems. Reading his poems to myself, I felt his words settling into my brain and it made me curious. My thoughts made me very interested in knowing more about hi...

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The rivers and little streams with their hidden cresses and pale-coloured pebbles and their fool's gold must be washed and starched or shined into brightness, the sheets of lake water smoothed with the hand and the foam of the oceans pressed into neatness. ... She is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including three books for children. ...

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Then, after cleaning the soot off of themselves in a river, the chimney sweepers ascend into heaven upon clouds. ... This feeling of a merry, fake world, and the unforgiving and cold real world is reinforced by imperfect rhyme (something that as Abrams points out is commonly used in children's poems, which Blake's songs of innocence are caricatures of). (274) In the dream, the rhyme is perfect, and the words are happy, mouth filling words, which seem to bounce in their very saying. ...

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"The children teased him with alder switches" (lines 12 &13, stanza 3) and "the young men snickered and tried to pour beer down his throat" (lines 18 & 19, stanza 4). ... The narrator in "Traveling through the Dark" was faced with the decision of delivering the fawn of a dead deer or rolling the dead foe into the river. ...

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Thomas tries to make us, as adults, feel as he feels - he knows that all adults share one common experience at least - we were all once children, so that:- we were all once delighted - none of us, as children, ever valued those fleeting pleasures within a greater whole - we are all nostalgic for something, someone or somewhere. ... We recall those kinfolk people who loved us as children, their closeness and kindness; their voices, smells and faces. ... On the ride (real or imagined), I would dangle "daisies and barley" as I passed the trees as the sun reflected off the sheen of the apples ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the poem opens we are introduced to a man who is burdened with the demanding and tedious job of cutting rice. As we move into the poem we find that this man, is a slave, who has dreams and aspirations of his own. His mind spirals into imaginings about his family and his kingdom. He is so entrance...

• Word Count: 986
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• Grade Level: High School