The poem is about journey after life which is inevitable and may be unpleasant. ... Besides that, Dickinson illustrates clearly her attire in during the journey. ... As for Frost, the whole poem symbolises a journey in the woods. ... Then, the journey slowly takes place as we can clearly see the four stages of life. The initial stage of her journey seems not really scary. ...

• Word Count: 1463
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Epics can often be closed to the hero and his/her specific journey, but Whitman introduces a free nature that is open to all of life. ... "The Odyssey" is closed to the story of the hero and centers its plot around the theme of a journey, highlighting Greek culture particularly pertaining to heroism. ... He talks about a myriad of issues and deviates from the norm of presenting a hero and his journey. Rather, he addresses the world, inviting them all to be a part of a greater journey called life. ...

• Word Count: 1717
• Approx Pages: 7
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Textual forms and features clearly illustrate his intellectual and emotional journey of coming to terms with change. ... The emotional and intellectual journey towards an acceptance of change is clearly portrayed in 'The Second Coming'. ... Through comparison of the two texts, our understanding of Yeat's emotion and cerebral journey of coming to terms with change is heightened, as we notice a shift in paradigm of rejection to acceptance....

• Word Count: 1286
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This poem is about a man leaving the women he loves in order to go on some type of extended journey. ... The women is described as the fixed foot because she is being left at home while the narrator goes on a long journey. ... In the last stanza this wonderful metaphor continues as the narrator talks about the necessity of the journey on which he is about to embark and tells his love in lines 35-36 that just like a compass "Thy firmness makes my circles just, and makes me end where I begun". ...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the beginning of the poem, Cook describes the way he is feeling about the journey: I took my leave of Albion's Rock With heavy heart, concerned that I Was forced my Native soil to fly, And the Old World must bid good-bye: But Heaven ordained it should be so. And to repine is vain we know. (4-9) As he sets off to leave his home in England for Maryland, he is quite concerned as to what the journey may bring. ... Bad manners, illness, theft, and mosquitoes plagued his journey. ...

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

As the stanzas are revealed so is the persona's journey. ... The two lovers are connected to each other in a way that only they can comprehend because they have reached the end of their journey. ...

• Word Count: 1317
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Robert Frost was considered the "most popular modern American poet of the twentieth century" (Literature Online 1). His use of natural images and traditional poetic technique give him a fashion that is desirable to the fictitious ears. Throughout his literary career, Frost had been both celeb...

• Word Count: 2122
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Wang Wei uses "several miles " to describe the length of the journey, and using "cloudy peaks " explain the height of the mountain. ... The structure of this poem is likely using the narrative method, naturally and smoothly pictured a story of his journey for readers. ...

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

This is the sound of Nature running its course, and the animal had met the end of its living journey and had been set free to become one with Nature once again. ... It also appears to be a journey into the world of art, aspired by an Urn, which is what the poem is based upon. ...

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

Alexander Pope has long been considered one of the greatest satirists that English literary tradition has ever seen. His methods of satire are original and unique from those of the traditional Augustan poet, and his comments on the ideals and morals of his contemporaries have provided us with a valuable insight into Augustan lifestyles. Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" has its foundation in an amorous joke played by the young Lord Petre on Miss Arabella Fermor. The ensuing rift between the two prominent aristocratic families caused a mutual acquaintance to approach Pope, wi...

• Word Count: 2068
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Robert Frost is famous for his ability to ask the reader about their life with the use of simplistic words. Frost does this by using the poetic technique of duality. Duality is the contraction of two opposite qualities; for example light and dark or left and right are two dualities. Along with the u...

• Word Count: 1771
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings and some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt or the body to shriek without pain. I have never seen one fly, but sometimes they perch on the hand. Mist is when the sky is tired o...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

His feelings of being placed in the incorrect environment are incredibly strong, his journey from the bleakness of the real world into the world of nature is so vivid it causes him to question which is the true reality; "Fled is that music:- Do I wake or sleep". ...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings and some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt or the body to shriek without pain. I have never seen one fly, but sometimes they perch on the hand. Mist is when the sky is tired o...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Introduction " we were meant for - made for things that give and that mean to give glory to God." Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) Romantic poets see the implication of imagination, myth, symbol and organic nature, and see it as part of the great endeavour to overcome the split between sub...

• Word Count: 1415
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The two poems being compared are both love poems. Poem one is On My First Son by Ben Jonson . The next one, poem two, is called Unending Love by Rabindranath Tagore. Both poems are well written love poems that have similar subjects (love) but differ dramatically because of their structures, ...

• Word Count: 1296
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

One of Walt Whitman's earliest memories was when General Lafayette, a French hero in the American Revolution, picked him up out of a crowd and hoisted him onto his shoulder and paraded him around Brooklyn. This memory signifies the times in which Whitman was born, May 31, 1819; when America had jus...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

TASK 3 Choose three poems you find outstanding in their capacity to uplift and inspire through evoking positive emotional responses. By using a minimum of two hundred words for each describe how they achieve this effect. Introduction - Choice I am unable to continue this assignment w...

• Word Count: 1553
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

John Keats expresses his feelings on many matters of the complex world in which he lived in two of his poems, "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn". Since the two have many similarities, as well as differences, coupling them can result in some overall conclusions. Within these two odes,...

• Word Count: 1754
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• Grade Level: High School

In this paper I will try to analyze some of the Frost's early poems. I will explore similarities and differences in his poems. I refer to these poems as "early" because they are considered here are a selection of well known verses published in the eleven years (1913-1923) spanned by Frost's first fo...

• Word Count: 1699
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout Canadian history there have been many pieces of literary work that have shown the individuals personal voice. Voice is a major part of building and adding to Canada's culture. One voice that is commonly heard through Canadian literature is the immigrant voice. Canada is a country that is ...

• Word Count: 1494
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In many of his poems, Robert Frost uses images of and nature, especially trees and forests, to convey his thoughts and emotions. The turning of the seasons, a wooded area, and other things common in nature, were also common in Frosts poems. Many people attest this to his working as a farmer on an ol...

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

Death and God Death is perhaps the greatest mystery of life. It is one of the few things we can offer no concrete answer. We know why we die and what causes death, but we do not know if anything exists after death. Modern man seeks truths based on facts and proof. We do not have any proof or eyewi...

• Word Count: 1554
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One of the more difficult aspects of understanding poetry is that of the metaphor. The metaphor itself is simple in definition: "A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar". However, Merriam-Webster does not even begin to h...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Love, the most intense of all emotional sensations and a feeling, of which, can make a person feel "on top of the world. " Sadly, without the feeling of love, a person can feel miserable. Love comes in many forms, shapes, and sizes. Most people cannot even define love beyond "an intense feeling of j...

• Word Count: 1696
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School