Shelley begins his poem by addressing the "Wild West Wind" (1). ... He likens this with a feeling of being trapped. ... O, Wind, If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?... The third stanza discusses the slowing down of the movement, while the next resumes with the wind movement apparent in the first stanza. ... In lines 14 and 15, he says the beauty "shine[s] upon human thought- and then poses the question to beauty in the next line; "where art thou gone?...

• Word Count: 1748
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• Grade Level: High School

He also mentions that the woods are filling up with snow "To watch his woods, fill up with snow" (807). ... The next stanza mentions sounds, and how the only two he hears are his horses" reigns, and the sweep of the wind brushing the snow. "The only other sounds the sweep/ Of easy wind and downy flake" (807) And finally, he makes reference to how the woods look, inviting, and interesting. ... One image is of calm, peaceful evergreens, the other, of trees that have gone bare in the fall, dark, and foreboding. ... But when he says this, the man says it with a sigh. ...

• Word Count: 1767
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Frost uses irony with analogies to argue that his apple trees will not eat his neighbor's pinecones. ... The speaker is faced with the decision of which path he will chose to travel. ... One such poem is entitled "The Tuft Of Flowers" , in this he writes: "But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been -- alone, 'As all must be,' I said within my heart, 'Whether they work together or apart.' ... Not only in this selected excerpt does he relate to nature again [the grass] but there is a small touch of humor and some feeling about feeling...

• Word Count: 1457
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• Grade Level: High School

We traveled his healing journey and became well with him. ... "You looked at my hand and you knew that I was the slave of the Ring, while you were as free as the wind is free" (801). ... ...Perhaps He had gone to the ghastly field where the fight had been that day. ... "He gazed, and felt, for him, all beauty lay buried with her forever" (799). ... When the narrator says, "I was the slave of the Ring, while you were as free as the wind is free" (801). ...

• Word Count: 1554
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• Grade Level: High School

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 swarming of the flies produced a sound that resembled running water or the wind. ... Like "A Carrion", a sense of melancholy that is consistent with Romanticism is conveyed in the Ghazals of Ghalib. ... The reader is then asked if they would question the wind's shaping and to watch mildew grow on a mirror in the spring. ... The poem is ended by Keats t...

• Word Count: 1751
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• Grade Level: High School

"The Mother" "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks is a poem that deals with abortion. ... Finally, when the speaker proclaims "I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children," she tells the readers that she is being haunted by voices of her unborn children, thus expressing her pain and loss(lines 11-12). ... The readers may be able to commiserate with the speaker because in the last couple of lines of the stanza she realizes that it was because of her that her unborn are dead. ... These word choices may imply that as her life has gone by, the mot...

• Word Count: 1519
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• Grade Level: High School

Since the "hollow men" possesses a "headpiece filled with straw" a picture of a scarecrow denied a brain is envisioned. ... The next lines portray an image of repetitiveness and uselessness: Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats" feet over broken glass In our dry cellar The consecutive use of the word "dry" conveys a feeling of deadness. ... There are also people "who by virtue of their pointless drifting through life have gone to a sort of nowhere, a nothingness, a Limbo at the outskirts of Hell." ... Gen...

• Word Count: 1435
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• Grade Level: High School

He was very concerned with working class children. ... When reading poem 1, I was left with the impression that the speaker was innocent, nave and a good-natured little boy. ... The colour black is associated with unhappiness, death, captivity, burdens and destructiveness in general. ... Then naked and white, all their bags left behind, They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind. ... He was especially angry with the Anglican Church for its double standards and its cynical way of preying on people's conscience. ...

• Word Count: 2076
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Go down two lines "Ancient trees, trails with no one there, deep in hills, a bell from I knew not where " . ... Speaking of the green pine trees, by years of wind and storms experiences it became more dignified and composed. ... As a reader, we walked along with writer from introduction of the mountain, development about the objects around the temple then transition to the inner self, and finally the conclusion of how he decided to deal with his inner self. ... "War's beacon fires have gone on three months, letters from home are worth thousands in gold ", in here he turns from the world ...

• Word Count: 1790
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography