Ezra Pounds poem "The Jewel Stairs' grievance" was a little confusing to me to be honest. ... The poem doesn't really give too much information referring that the poem isn't very detailed and lengthy. ... The poem seems to take place in the late autumn season in the cold where leaves begin to fall from trees. ... This language characterizes himself as a professional old English famous writer. ... The repetitions at the beginning of each part of the sonnet resemble a structure that Shakespeare seems to follow (along with other old English poem illustrators). ...

• Word Count: 1745
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I think this is most clearly shown in Mercutio's famous line 'a plague a' both your houses'. ... In the historical poems, 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' we are given a good idea of how two writers can have different opinions about war and conflict. ... Despite the vast differences between the two poems, there is one strong common theme that is ever present throughout; and that is the fact that war is simply horrific. ... Men are forced to go to war in poems like 'The Conscript' even though they are not fit to do...

• Word Count: 1844
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

A well-respected poet and playwright named Ben Jonson- who wrote a poem introduction for the First folio in honor of Shakespeare is linked to National identity because Jonson was an Englishman; however while Jonson had been more wealthy and he was more well-known, prosperous poet and playwright, highly educated and had studied English in depth for many years- Shakespeare wasn't as recognized and he had contrastingly lower education, the reasons behind this could have been because Jonson was more upper class; upper class were seen as more superior than the middle class. ...

• Word Count: 2217
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate