August Wilson's Fences gives the readers a combination of poet's ear for language with a healthy sense of humor, it almost gives a sure sense for funny dramatic occasions, and a loving commitment to a excellent subject. ... Last August Wilson contributes humor and common sense that are played with tremendous impact. ...
If the narrator is soothed into the woods he has definitely abandoned his sense of judgement and self-preservation. ... Basically, Frost's common sense and strict Americanism is contrary to most modern poets. ... Imagism is a style of poetry that utilizes free verse, and patterns and rhythms of common speech. ... With "the old fashioned way to be new" Frost strove for the sound of sense, for the simpleness, for a tension between natural rhythm of speech, and the basic iambic meter of English verse (Kantak 161-66). ... For instance, the common word choice that Frost utilizes for ...
Dante's poetic side and adoration for an epic love, clouds his sense of reason. ... Dante's sense of sympathy and kindness towards the shades harshens as he travels further into hell. ... Dante's story represents not only his own life but also what Dante the Poet alleged to be the common Christian quest for God....
This is done by means of connotations and imagery inherent within the landscape; therefore, utilizing these concepts to create an alien, but common internality. ... It is almost as if there is a sense of influence or manipulation by MacEwen such as how she guides the reader, with the "you," along a path she chooses. ... Indeed, the addition of "dark pines" solidifies the whole idea of a dark sense or theme because they are usually symbolically positive or bright. ...
All of a sudden at the age of nineteen they decided to in a sense "cut me off." ... They knew that at times it would be a great struggle to try and make ends meet, but they also knew that this would in a sense turn me into a man. ... To the common person a starling is just a common bird, but in that room, for a helpless hour, it became a "sleek, wild, dark, and iridescent creature." ... Both in a sense, needed to fly, to "clear the window sill of the world." ...
In the second quatrain, the persona speaks of each of his senses being displeased by his lover-- "Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted, Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, Nor taste, nor smell - None of the persona's senses are pleased-- not by the sound of her voice, or her "taste- and "smell,"" or is she stimulating his sense of touch. ... In reality, not every person is the apple of perfection, and this quatrain gives the reader a sense of earthly and more practical qualities. ... In lines 1-2 "But my five wits nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish hea...
Owen also uses a common and modern diction in this poem. ... The poet gives the readers a sense of extreme urgency by stating: "Gas! ... As readers advance further, the caesuras between lines thirteen and sixteen of the end of second stanza serves to enter another type of rhythm, evoking a sense of the bewilderment of the battle, and this is where the transition takes place. ... There is no signs glory left through the lines of the poem, but rather a sense of despair and loss. ...
The common thought that some people seem to have about poetry is that it must consist of rhyming, a lot of articulate words, and/or they are really hard to follow. ... In the beginning, the mirror was the metaphor for poetry in the sense that it is and should be reflective, and the woman was the metaphor for the readers of poetry. ... This particular poem, which could even be thought of as a story, is an explanation of the common struggle people have when it comes to reading and understanding poems. ... Reed's poem describes the common process people go through when it comes to comprehend...
These lines compare love and songs, which both have in common in some ways and also have their differences. 1Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I 2effuse unreturn'd love, 3But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is 4certain one way or another, 5(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not 6return'd, 7Yet out of that I have written these songs.) 1This line of the poem is trying to tell people that love doesn't always bring love and happiness but it can also bring fear in people that they could have between the bo...
The poem "To Be of Use" is about Marge Piercey's need to surround herself with people who work hard at everything they do. People who work together for a common goal, but cry out for work that's real. When I first read this piece, it made sense to me, but I could tell there was a hidden meani...
The imagery used by Burns is so detailed and vibrant that it gives the reader a sense of actually seeing what he describes. ... (Kalasky 80) When the farmer describes himself and the mouse as being "earth born" and "mortal," there is a sense of compassion in the farmer's tone and the mouse becomes personified and promoted to an equal status with the farmer. ... It is this natural instinctive quality that both farmer and mouse possess, linking two otherwise diverse creatures with a common thread. ...
There is a strong sense of regret before the choice is even made and it lies in the knowledge that in one lifetime, it is impossible to travel down every path. ... This is his common sense speaking and acknowledging that what he chooses now, will affect every other choice he makes afterward. ...
The reader can sense the sarcasm in these lines. ... Despite commonalities such as this, the narrator says his page "will not be white" (Hughes). ... The common theme between them, however, is the significance of appearances and their level of accuracy in representing the entities behind them. ...
The ambulance, racing to the rescue of the crash victims, relays the sense of rush and emergency to the audience. ... The witnesses illustrate the most common reactions to disaster. ... In this poem, Shapiro has recognized certain reaction patterns of society and pieced them all together, along with the most common societal horror: an auto wreck. ...
Imagery of a Horrible Occurrence As I grew up my parents used to tell me that everything happens for a reason. Intern, I thought to myself, what about all of the horrible things that happen? I soon realized that even though a bad event may occur it still does happen for a reason. Sometimes th...
Micheal Macklem writes that Housman's devotion toward classics has been thought of as an unfortunate digression from his poetry. Edmund Wilson tried to find a relationship between the poetry and classical scholarship of Housman, but came to a conclusion that the scholarship in Housman's poetry sho...
Imagery of a Horrible Occurrence As I grew up my parents used to tell me that everything happens for a reason. Intern, I thought to myself, what about all of the horrible things that happen? I soon realized that even though a bad event may occur it still does happen for a reason. Sometimes th...
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. ... Six nine-line regular stanzas contain assonance rhyme schemes (abcddabcd) so subtle that one is almost unaware of being gently manipulated into such a subliminal sense of order. ... And "as" implying either "when" or "because" - I much prefer the sense of "becau...
This produces a sense of deliriousness, as the soldiers are "Drunk with fatigue." ... It creates a strong sense of intimacy between the responder and the poem and allows the responder to visualise what is in the dreams. ... It has also conveyed other key ideas relating to war being a misrepresentation, the desperation of soldiers in war and how the reality of war differs from its common facade. Owen has portrayed these concepts through his painfully direct language, which combines gritty realism with an aching sense of compassion for the soldiers....
In 1870 Thomas Hardy travelled to Cornwall, where he met and fell in love with Emma Gilford, his first wife. Emma's death, on the November 27th 1912, inspired some of Hardy's most raw and best work. "The Going" by Thomas Hardy is one of many poems written by Hardy after his wife's death. Between 19...
Time is Running Out! A fascination with many people is to go back in time, and live the simple life, or to gain something when they were younger. In the literary works of Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" and Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," time is expressed as ...
Time is Running Out! A fascination with many people is to go back in time, and live the simple life, or to gain something when they were younger. In the literary works of Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" and Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," time is expressed as ...
By doing this, Woodworth has put the readers in a sympathetic position since there is now a common feeling and understanding. ... The image of a poem is a concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea. ...
It gives an overarching sense of sadness to 'Nothing's Changed', as even though the apartheid has ended, the poet believes that discrimination against certain groups in society will still continue. ... One thing that 'Nothing's Changed' and 'Vultures' have in common is their use of imagery to show the lives of those who are affected by the people who seek power. ...
