However, he also notes that nature is indifferent to his needs and therefore his desire is unobtainable. ... In the next stanza, the lower classes are described as being from 'raw estates', making them appear common and their lives sound basic. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 2501
• Approx Pages: 10

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. ... There are a few things to note about this guy, since he's pretty revealing in the way he goes about this poem. ...

• Word Count: 3268
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

It was a must to note that language is a human creation contained cultural heritages of linguistic group. ... 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 literatur...

• Word Count: 5585
• Approx Pages: 22
• 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
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42

He believed that we all share a common bond through the "life source," a primeval force that defined the world: Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed Earth! ... (Song, p. 4) Note that this connection is simply made through lying in the grass and listening to ambient sounds, not through forcing song or voice to fill what isn't really empty in the first place. ...

• Word Count: 2891
• Approx Pages: 12
• 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
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School