In the next stanza, the lower classes are described as being from 'raw estates', making them appear common and their lives sound basic. ... In contrast to the other stanzas which all have a sense of movement, this word is definite and brings the motion in the poem to a halt. This suggests that Larkin feels a strong sense of content in the natural world. ... From this point there is a sense of change and ageing in the poem. ... The women are searching for answers to cure their sense of something being missing in their lives. ...

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Literature "organized violence committed on ordinary speech" (Eagleton) While the definition of literature has been widely disputed throughout history, British literary theorist, Terrence Eagleton, attempts to make sense of it all during the introduction of his 1983 book, What is Literature. He described literature as, "imaginative writing in the sense of fiction" (Eagleton 1). If one then believes that 'writing in the sense of fiction' is the meaning of literature then who is it that decides what is true and untrue - and thus ultimately, literature? ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A common interpretation of the work of the 19th century poetess, Christina Rosetti, is that her work is depressing, morbid and highly pessimistic. ... This image which appeals to the sense of sound and also to basic human compassion is very striking as it is clear that there continue to be more victims of the "broadening darkness", which represents in this poem something which has destroyed a genuine and lively love. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A common thread that is in three of Hardy's many poems is a passion or mourning for a lost love or friend. These three poems that share this common theme are "After a Journey,"" "The Haunter,"" and "Your Last Drive."" ... It doesn't make quite make sense. ... - This line is used in the poem in the sense that the speaker follows his friend, but he doesn't know how to tell or show his friend that he is there. ...

• Word Count: 2972
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As a result, the reader alongside the poet is drawn back to the realities of everyday life, picturing the frailty and weakness of man's estate with far more conviction and an overriding sense of grief. ... The Ode shows, as Hollindale (1988: 62) asserts, a persistent sense of Keats's part, of truths which seem to be contradictory, but which in fact are very close together. ... These poems grasp at common and inconsolable senses of loss and alienation of where they belong. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Writing about sex, (the) human body, many other "taboo" subjects and common objects and people, Whitman and Dickinson address the larger matters of life, namely death and religion. ... The conclusive paragraph draws on the common motifs to Whitman and Dickinson in the poems analyzed. ... The negative account of other, pedestrian speech forms, like the admission of naturally superior discourse , is not only a way of recognizing (and sharing one's recognition) of a reality that lies beyond ordinary words, but also of communicating a sense of appropriate restraint in one's o...

• Word Count: 2619
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This typical style of writing, using fantasy stories to illustrate something, is shows that this poem has a strong sense of spiritual correspondence between man and nature, as Keats has had to dream this poem up, whereas in "An Advancement of Learning", or even "Roe-Deer", the poets may have actually been through these experiences, and these poems could just be showing their emotions at the time. ...

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Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers...

• Word Count: 3020
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

If that sounds familiar to you, that's probably because it's the most common meter in English poetry. ... Small substitutions like this are fairly common in poetry, so just be on the lookout for any metrical oddities. ... There are in fact many different types of sonnets, but the two most common are the Petrarchan sonnet (named after the famous Italian sonneteer Francesco Petrarca) and the Shakespearean (or English) sonnet. ...

• Word Count: 3268
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• Grade Level: High School

The sense of 'local' community was being lost. ... What went out was narrative, description, rational exposition; what emerged focused on stream of consciousness, images in poetry (rather than description or narration), a new use of universal myth, and a sense of fragmentation both of individuality and of such concepts as space and time. ... The language mix reflects a sense that there is no longer a fixed language of poetry just as there is no longer one English. ...

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The Mask of Anarchy: a Reflection of Shelley's Revolutionary Introduction Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was the only son of an aristocratic family: his father was an M.P. and his grandfather was a wealthy landowner. He educated at Eton College and entered the University of Oxford. There, he...

• Word Count: 2715
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• Grade Level: High School

It is interesting how poets from different writing periods can have similar views. Walt Whitman was a Transcendentalist, and Rainer Rilke wrote at the beginning of the Modernist period, yet both have very similar ideas about a poet's dedication to "things." Whitman believed that a poet's thoughts ...

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and caretaker Gave thee life, and bid thee feed Gave thee clothing of delight Gave thee such a tender voice The matter joy also present in the following verses, Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice is common in the whole collection of the Songs of Innocence. ... Asking Jesus the God and the initiator of the creation the question "who made thee" does not make much sense. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A "howl" is a prolonged instinctive animal cry and Ginsberg's poem forcefully depicts the sense of a "sudden, angry eruption of instincts long thwarted, of the release of excluded human and literary energies"(Breslin, 227). ...

• Word Count: 4095
• Approx Pages: 16
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• Grade Level: High School

A proem is a short introduction, in verse, to the matter and meaning of the rest of the poem. Some published editions of the poem do not make a division between The Proem and The Dream. The Proem is lines 1 through 290, and The Dream is lines 291 through 1334, the end of the poem. In  The Book of t...

• Word Count: 5753
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School