The use of the word manners here attempts to imply that his behavior was learnt, but he actually seems to be proud of the fact that he does not worry about what he eats, the way he violently rips up his prey, before consuming it. ... "The sun is behind me" suggests an image of the setting sun; a setting sun which portrays death; a death that will take place if he decides to get out of the tree. ... The first word in the poem; "I", is repeated throughout the poem, emphasizes the hawk's proud attitude. ... It makes us imagine an encounter of pantheistic death and resurrection. "What a lif...

• Word Count: 1305
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• Grade Level: High School

If he would not have used them as he did, the poem would not have as strong of an impact on the reader as it has now. ... For the speaker of this poem though to describe his son as his best work ever is extremely powerful and it shows how proud and how much love the father felt for his son. ... The controlling image in On My First Son is death and grief. Death rings out through the entire poem. ... The dramatic situation used in this poem is the death of a son. ...

• Word Count: 1296
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• Grade Level: High School

This is a standard issue in society today; whether free will exists or whether we live in a trapped world where we can not do what we want to in destiny or where we can't do something whether we put our minds to it or not. ... said Ernest, running, I fell just as she gored me to my death." ... Whether this person was real or not I believe Masters does not believe in free will because if he did then he would not have included a poem like this or a poem that ends in a death with such a strong comment during the death of Roger. ... It may have been a simple wish but it is one tha...

• Word Count: 1363
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• Grade Level: High School

He wrote an elegy on the death of Cromwell called Heroic Stanzas. ... His poetry is "public" in nature, not private or sentimental. ... Dryden does not follow the biblical account word for word; he notes that the biblical account ends with the death of Absalom, but that he hopes that the current situation will end peacefully. ... Why would he not be? ... The Restoration of Charles II to the throne was not as great as many had hoped. ...

• Word Count: 1309
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He quickly introduces the theme of death and compares the dead leaves to "ghosts" (3). ... The important word is "seeds" for it shows that even in death, new life will grow out of the "grave." ... Thus, implying that the power has to stay within people in order for death to become a "dying flame-. ... At one point he cries out to God to reveal himself, saying "I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed [religion]; I was not heard "I saw them [the dead] not-. ... The king believed his kingdom would remain under his statue's proud watch forever, but instead it wasted away...

• Word Count: 1748
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In this poem the act of crossing suggested a passage from life to death and back to life, and the passage from poet to reader via the medium (transportation) of poetry. ... In the section where the child asks the speaker what grass is, he proceeds to explain his symbolism of the grass that utilizes themes of nature (nature's cycles of rebirth and regeneration), a theme of unity and the democracy that runs the country (grass grows everywhere and links everyone's yards together as a whole), and a symbol of death or mortality (grass grows from the ground fertilized by the dead soldiers...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover," the author takes us inside the mind of a madman who reveals the dark side of human nature, and how death is twisted into a demented form of compassion. ... The man is absolutely crazy and could not let her go, so rather than enjoying the evening and future encounters, he chooses to brutally strangle her by wrapping her hair around her neck. ... This is best explained in the key passage: "Happy and proud; at last I knew/ Porphyria worshipped me; surprise/ Made my heart swell, and still it grew/ While I debated what to do./ That ...

• Word Count: 1455
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School