While searching for more information regarding the child laborers of this time I found several notes that the word "weep" may have actually been the word "sweep" - a result of a Cockney lisp which dropped the "s." ... I found the "Holy Thursday" poems to be much more moving and effective. This is likely because I was able to grasp the images Blake offers much more easily because of my own visit to St Paul's. ... An example of this is found in the first stanza which is a beautiful description of the opening scene: "As market-days are wearing late An' folk begin to tak the gate." ...

• Word Count: 1853
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The problem is that these ambitions are not easily reconcilable. ... Just like so many Victorian poets and intellectuals, Alfred Lord Tennyson found it hard to give poetry and the figure of the poet a place in society. ... A good example of this special percepction can be found in...

• Word Count: 2449
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The poem is a metaphysical poem expressed in a romantic form, so it could be easily categorized as a love poem. ... The hyperbole (exaggeration) used by the character to exaggerate his feelings and emotions can be found in line 8 "Love you ten years before the flood.... Hyperbolism found from line 10 to 18, "Till the conversion of the Jews.... Examples of caesuras can be found in line 2 (This coyness, my lady, were no crime) and in other lines such as, line 6("Shouldst rubies find: I by side), line 38 ("And you should, if you please, till the conversion of the Jews,") ...

• Word Count: 1363
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The subplot involving Malvolio, Olivia's advisor, holds one of the most important symbols found in this work. Malvolio often wishes that he held Olivia's heart and hand, but the social order and classes found in Renaissance times restrict him. ... Although the Twelfth Night theme is the most recognizable theme found in Twelfth Night, it is not the only theme present. ...

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He argues that if time passes and they age then her beauty shall no more be found' and his lust' turn to ashes'. ... The admittance of feelings for her alone were dangerous enough, although the fact he took the risk perhaps speaks better than the poem of how he felt about love, but to openly say anything critical could easily have been a death sentence. ...

• Word Count: 1276
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From the beginning the speaker can easily be identified as the author herself as she addresses her book as "( ) offspring of my feeble brain" (l.1) Not only is the book presented as the author's child by Bradstreet but she also describes aspects of an author's relationship to his book being like the complex relationship of a child to its mother. ... These are most importantly found on a religious basis which is not surprising considering the poem dates from the period of the 17th Century which was marked very religiously. ...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Such examples can be found in his poems such as "Ode to the West Wind,"" "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,"" and "Ozymandias."" ... Percy Bysshe Shelley being a prominent romantic poet, is easily recognized as an influential writer whose work is distinguished by the use of vivid imagery and s...

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

They are exhausted, weak, and sick from the elements but still continue to march forward to a place where rest can be found. ... The speaker then challenges the reader to dream of having to pace behind the wagon where they have laid their fellow soldier and hear the sounds the body makes due to the effects of gas on the body: . . . watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable cores...

• Word Count: 1643
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Here the light is found in the prisoner, implying that he has not yet succumb to dementia and that his rationality could return. ... The prisoner's life is a conflict that is very easily relatable: the desire to leave a prison and step out into freedom. ... "So spoke the elder of the two, and in the captive's eyes He looked for gleaming ecstasy But only found surprise. ...

• Word Count: 1959
• Approx Pages: 8

Since Bradstreet allowed her emotions and imagination to rule her works, this easily portrayed the freedom and construction in being a poet in her works. ... In stanza one, she writes: "To sing of wars, of captains, and of kings, Of cities founded, commonwealths begun, For my mean pen are too superior things: Or how they all, or each their dates have run Let poets and historians set these forth, My obscure lines shall not so dim their worth- (Bradstreet 247, ln 1-6). ...

• Word Count: 1953
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Poetry can sometimes be very difficult to understand and to analyze. John Donne makes his poetry easy to understand because he does not use a difficult language to get his message through his readers. In two out of many poems, "The Apparition" and "The Flea," he just uses imagery throughout his wr...

• Word Count: 1906
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School