From then on, Sexton spent most of her life in the affluent, upper-middle class suburbs of Boston (Discovering Biographies 2). ... To overcome her troubles, she married at age nineteen and attempted to settle into the role of housewife and mother (Discovering Biographies 2). ... "Poetry gave me a rebirth at age twenty-nine" (American Literature 3591), Anne quoted many times during her career. ... Sexton's early poetry, from what I have read, is very happy and hopeful. I enjoyed reading some of her earlier pieces. ...

• Word Count: 1368
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

From the early 19th century, Percy Bysshe Shelley is recognized as one of the most influential writers of the Romantic Period whose work is characterized by his use of imagery and symbolism. ... Through these similes Shelley constructs an image of the power's tremendous and forceful status (Swanicke, Poets: Interpreters of Their Age 170). ... He feels that after a young adulthood, where everything is questioned, middle age and eventually old age becomes a depressing situation. ... In the end, the King's works are nothing, and the lines inscribed upon his statue are a sermon for tho...

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

We understand that Medusa has grown past her "age of youth" and has probably lost the beauty she had in her youth. ... Medusa's character is nearly impossible to sympathise for early in the poem: she is the epitome of a middle aged woman who seemingly overreacts based on a suspicion that her partner is having an affair with prettier women. ...

• Word Count: 1489
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At this time, in the early nineteenth century the world and America were undergoing big changes, which fueled Whitman's writings. ... The middle of the poem Whitman tells a little girl not to fear death because "there really is no death.... " The phase seems to say that any death is better than dying from old age. ...

• Word Count: 1606
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School