The irony that is in this stanza is the dead will never be back again. ... Frost continues with: "The ones who are living come today to read the stones and go away tomorrow dead will come to stay". The grim reality of this is that when they die they will stay there forever, so what he is saying is that there is no point in walking the pathways of the graveyard. ... A nature you don't see just walking through the forest, but a working man's nature. ... Whether it is nature being alienated with man or him alienated by himself from within he has some relation to nature, satire and sarc...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

We must first understand that a carrion is a dead carcass of an animal. ... The poem begins with what appears to be a couple walking along during a nice summer day, and there they saw the object that was the dead animal that was laying belly up on the side of the road with its legs spread like a prostitute. ... The flies have swarmed the dead beast and make it appear as a dark black cloud has descended upon the carcass. ... Death is a sad thing and the reader is reminded that one day they will be just like the dead animal. ... The very last stanza seems to be the narrator talking to his girl a...

• Word Count: 1751
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• Grade Level: High School

This poem lets the readers build up a picture of what men during the First World War had to endure; pain, food rationing, trench foot, mustard gas and even if you were very unfortunate, you could be lying in no-mans-land injured, screaming and shouting. ... "In all my dreams ." whenever he tries to sleep he cannot fight that mans agonizing death. ... "Pace behind the wagon", this makes us think of mourners at a funeral walking slowly and shortly behind the coffin. Owen uses the expression "flung" to address to us that men half dead had been given no respect and treated as though there is ...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School