According to McKenna, "My Papa's Waltz" is not a complex or long poem, but it has "intriguing ambiguity that elicits starling different interpretations" (1). ... Although Roethke's poem "My Papa's Waltz" can be interpreted as positive or negative, his word choice, imagery, and characters strongly portray this scene as a happy family moment. ... The iconic characters of the loving son, the caring father, and mother in the poem support the idea of a happy family having a good time with each other. ...

• Word Count: 612
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The theme of love appears to be simple, but is actually complex in Browning's poem. ... This element is used to indirectly show the speaker's character. ... Browning uses this parallel to the character of the speaker and the storyline. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Aristotle meant that through imitation and metaphorical portrayal, poetry makes clear the factualism, reality and correctness of the inimitable attributes of being a human, principally the ultimate question of human existence, whilst informing the reader about the realistic human character. ... Many poets try to make sense of the complex and intimidating subject of humanity but most fail and those that do may not capture the entirety of it. ...

• Word Count: 506
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He provides us with much evidence in analyzing complex questions from various perspectives which usually lead to a diversity of solutions. ... He utilized a spider, a moth and heal-alls as three different characters in depicting the scene. ... On the other hand, with narratives such as "like a white piece of rigid satin cloth" and "assorted characters of death and blight"(Line 3-4), the author makes a sudden transition from the extraction of beauty and innocence to tone of death and affliction. ... He applies the beauty of using the ambiguity and paradox to articulate the complex ideals within...

• Word Count: 1104
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• Grade Level: High School

The term originated in Italy (Italian villanella from villano: "peasant"); and later used in France to designate a short poem of popular character favored by poets in the late 16th century. ... The villanelle seems like a very regimented and difficult form; this paper is copied; the effortless ease with which Thomas makes it appear adds clarity to the complex emotions describes in the poem. ... In conclusion, the events surrounding Thomas at the time do not make up all the character of this poem. ...

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Irony can be quite a complex concept to explain clearly, as part of its purpose is to be unclear. ... Verbal irony is the gap between the literal and figurative meaning of words used, situational irony uses the contradictions of a readers' expectation versus the poem's reality, and dramatic irony contrasts the knowledge of the readers' versus the main character. ... Have you ever been watching a horror movie and felt the urge to yell at a character to run away? This is considered dramatic irony and occurs when a reader is already aware of something that the main character is not...

• Word Count: 1245
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this sense, readers can realise that characters are described as different type of universal human characteristics along the poem. ... Another character "Shaftesbury- is told to behave in bad manners: -In friendship false,"resolved to ruin or to rule the state-. ... The portrait of Shaftesbury as Achitopel is a picture of a complex and tortured character. ... In conclusion, there's a certain ironic humour in the parallels themselves and the development of the story in biblical terms but with a strict eye on contemporary events and characters in England gave Dryden abundant scope for ...

• Word Count: 1107
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To understand John Donnes ideas on love and salvation the responder must understand the context in which Donne writes. As a 16th century poet Donne lived in a time where everyone believed in god. He lived in a society where there was a constant battle between the protestant and Catholic branches of ...

• Word Count: 820
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• Grade Level: High School

Songs of Innocence and Experience' juxtaposes the innocent and pastoral world of childhood against the adult world of corruption, with 'The Lamb' representing a meek virtue and 'The Tyger' showing opposing, darker forces. The lamb is the voice of a child, whilst some critics believe the Tyger is ...

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The Flea appears deceptively casual in its composition and style but is infact a complex argument. ... The pretence of shock follows with his comparison of her act with the biblical character Herod. ... Donne indulged in quaint poetical conceits ignoring the classical conventions and classical characters (always keeping the object of affection anonymous), and the treatment of topics and objects of everyday life. ...

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I loved being able to dump all my ideas on paper and create stories with complex plotlines. ... "Writing about my own life is a waste of time, there's no way it'll be as interesting as those characters," I thought. ... I had so much enthusiasm for writing about my own life, being able to create my own characters and write about their lives was even more intriguing. ...

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Greenacher, author of a Psychoanalytic Study of Two Lives indicated, "Swift suffered from severe anxiety and defuse hypochondriasis of the type of which so often accompanies an unusually severe castration complex, in which pregenital determinates are strong." ... Hunting also felt that bisexuality was a major issue growing up and it showed through in his character and writings (3). ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Through his essays, he explained simple and complex realities about human beings. ... Swift assumes the character of an economist by making substantial computations of the gain that the Irish people would make from the trade. ...

• Word Count: 1100
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On the other hand, In "Why did I laugh to-night", the tone of voice is powerful, despairing, disappointed, anguished, bitter, solitary, conflicted, complex, doubtful, cynical, calm, confident, and hopeful. ... Its thin emotion jars on our knowledge of his character until we come to the end, where a kind of premonition seizes us" (99). ...

• Word Count: 1233
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School