The poem can be divided into two basic sections. ... On those Sunday=s the carpenter changed into a sculptor. ... Brathwaite said, Ait had swelled and shivered, breathing air...@ and Athe wood took shape: dry shuttered eyes, slack anciently everted lips, flat ruined face...@ (lines 31 & 40-41). ... The furniture was described as, Aspine-curving chairs made up of tubes, with hollow steel-like bird bones that sat on rubber ploughs, thin beds stretched not on boards, but blue high-tensioned cables...@ (Lines 23-25). ...

• Word Count: 526
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

"I knew not of the Temple of Incense Massed, I went several miles into cloudy peaks. " By reading at the first line from this poem, this opening scene brings us in a tranquil forest deep in the mountains close to an ancient temple. ... The fresh air he could felt and green sight he could see everywhere that surrounded by the clouds. ... Since this poem are allocated into the second type of poems at Tang Dynasty, which most likely a dairy. ... There are profound sounds when those bell rings, and the air full of mystery and imagination is gripping. ... "Fingers run through white hair until it...

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

., To "mess up the mess" is saying that it is really useless and that things get messy and worse and there is no point in tidying it or putting any effort into it. ... "Tinned breath" suggests very restricted breathing, that the new industries and factories cause pollution which restricts breathing, causes respiratory diseases as a result of the dirty thin air. ... It is the idea of the quality and power of the people in charge and that there are too many brainless cabbages and one should just plough them back into the soil. ... His feeling of hatred towards Slough is changed into a very enj...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The entire poem is littered with references to nature and it begins by talking about a bead of water that dissipates and dies into a stream, bringing about a sort of pain as the bead of water is changed into the whole of the stream. The next two lines talk of how water turns into air, and once again the change is compared to utter sadness and here we can see the theme of melancholy. The gloominess is continued in the following two lines where Ghalib speaks of a spring cloud thinning after a rain, and how the cloud died in its own weeping. ... He was meant to look further into you, and everythi...

• Word Count: 1751
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Which is actually, him seeing someone suffering from the gas, with the green glass of the gas mask, causing him to see everything as green, including air. ... Rupert Brooke, with his phrases, "flowers to love", "her ways to roam", "washed by the rivers" and "blest by suns of home" in the first stanza, projects into the reader's mind of a place, calm and peaceful, with a bright sun, and flowers abundant, and a clear river flowing by, which may be what he thinks about England, or what natural England looked like at that time. ... For Dulce Et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen, in the first stan...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Born into a wealthy family of scholars in Brookline, Massacusetts she resided on 200 acres of land and was home schooled. ... Amy Lowell was not a very feminine woman in comparison to women of the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century. ... And still others enjoyed her work so much they commented, "She touches a fuse where she goes, and fireworks rise in the air..." ... I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springtime of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in...

• Word Count: 2108
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School