Dove says that she spent most of her time as Poet Laureate " educating young people in matters of poetry and bringing real poetry into real life... So by helping introduce people to poetry and widening the audience for poetry, I do think my term has served a more serious purpose."" ... In Thomas and Beulah, Dove uses "the theme of the ordinary individual, the unknown individual, caught up in history."" ... She says "...what I was hoping to hand down was a sense of two very normal people living through a period of incredible change in the U.S."" ... But this poet has given voice to people who d...

• Word Count: 1934
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The reader can picture these two situations, a child examining an ordinary object as if it is suddenly extraordinary. ... Life often ends as the poem does, in a gray boring blend; the purpose of this poem is to advise people to take advantage of their early years so they will have something to remember in those last years of life. ...

• Word Count: 1351
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The poem is used to describe things of our world that his people (the Martian) will understand. ... Raine forces the reader to see for the first time things he or she has been glimpsed - and maybe even taken for granted - during a lifetime in a twisted and mixed language to revive the ordinary. ...

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

The poem is used to describe things of our world that his people (the Martian) will understand. ... Raine forces the reader to see for the first time things he or she has been glimpsed - and maybe even taken for granted - during a lifetime in a twisted and mixed language to revive the ordinary. ...

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

Here we see Seamus Heaney reflecting on himself as a patriot, fully seeing and understanding the sacrifices made by his earlier generations for the freedom of the Irish people. ... Man is made to own things, to transform objects, land, people?... People kill for revenges and for possession. ... He talks of isolation and exclusion from society in Punishment as the victims are brought out as a tribal humiliation, a tactic used to warn people to live by the law. Unlike people who physically fight for their freedom, Heaney is expressing his oppositions through words. ...

• Word Count: 1879
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In her writing to her husband, she is passionate and the kind of love a lot of people wish they had. ... He uses the figure of speech expressions which is defined as expressions that use words achieve effects beyond the power of ordinary language.... " (l. 9-10) Shakespeare finishes the poem by using a metaphor that suggests that as long as the poem he writes to her exists and people can read it then she will keep on living too. ... He writes, So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear –floods, nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our lo...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The first one and also the most important function of poetry was to give the basic idea about the importance of social and ethical issues to the people; the secondly was the personal issues and some of them similar with diaries. ... During that time, people were guild by the religion, which was considered as traditional teaching of thoughts and behavior codes. ... He contrasts "beacon fire " this type of communication with another type, the "letters " to saying the price of those letters, which worth to him more expensive than ordinary letters. ...

• Word Count: 1790
• Approx Pages: 7
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In the fifth stanza, the poem shifts into trochaic meter, as the speaker is reflective in the emotions behind encountering "Nature's People" (17), saying he feels for them "a transport of Cordiality.... The ordinary human impulse would be to kill the snake, or at least be scared of it. ...

• Word Count: 1710
• Approx Pages: 7

I am sure many people read this poem and think nice' and turn the page and never think about it again. ... The ordinariness of the poem's content beguiles us into thinking nothing much has happened. ...

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

In such voice tones Frost heard the sounds of sense and captured them in his verse, heightening their expressiveness by combining the inflections of ordinary speech with the measured regularity of meter- (Diyanni 874). ... Frost describes how simple, uncut tuft of wild flowers can unite two separate people. ...

• Word Count: 1806
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Along with the use of dualities throughout his poetry, Robert Frost uses nature to make his poetry to connect dualities with symbols that ordinary people can relate to. ... This is the reason I believe that most of his poetry is misunderstood by most the people who read it. ... When Robert Frost wrote this poem(1920) people were more connected to nature. They was nearly as many distractions that people have today(television, twitter, facebook, ect). ... " Just like in the people we have promise to maintain. ...

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

However, this sense of social isolation is enhanced by a spatial isolation as well; typically, Tennyson's artist-like figures live in "an isolated environment of retirement apart from the concerns of ordinary people" . ...

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

The introductory part of the spoken lullaby focuses on mere humanity, mortality and time; what makes people human: "Human on my faithless arm" (line 2). ... By using the words "ordinary swoon", the speaker suggests that love is something completely universal, but also natural and that their love can be distinguished from all other relationships. ...

• Word Count: 1813
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School