The seventh stanza is set in a series of four strong parallel functions (key, turned, free, world) that point to an effective, persuasive device, allowing for both repetition and enlargement of the theme. ... The secondary imagery of the telephone is depicted by a parallel structure of spiritual connotation; this is recognizable in the terms "haunted" and "ghost". ... The poem is structured to draw on specific representations to re-create symbolic images through our senses, fluctuating from visual (birds), to physical (books), to hearing (laughing and crying). ...

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

The reader knows that around our bones we have flesh, and draw a parallel between the years of stories and the flesh of old Dan. ... Having no rhythm either, the reader perceives that the poem is not about structure or arrangement but instead about the wild beauty of the outback as portrayed by Wright. ... Although Woman to Man also purports to be a speaker, it is more formal and structured in its delivery, representing a clearer, more distinct view of events, if somewhat clouded by the language used. ... The "intricate and folded rose" is nearer to a conceptual imagery, used at this junct...

• Word Count: 1399
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The seventh stanza is set in a series of four strong parallel functions (key, turned, free, world) that point to an effective, persuasive device, allowing for both repetition and enlargement of the theme. ... The secondary imagery of the telephone is depicted by a parallel structure of spiritual connotation; this is recognizable in the terms "haunted" and "ghost". ... The poem is structured to draw on specific representations to re-create symbolic images through our senses, fluctuating from visual (birds), to physical (books), to hearing (laughing and crying). ...

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

Her ability to always create the perfect poetic structure was a necessity, not a luxury. ... Here lies a contradiction right at the end of what seems to be a sweet, innocent and simply structured love poem. ... However, Bradstreet used a surprising amount of rhetorical structures throughout both of the poems mentioned previously. ... She also used parallels with her word and syllables. ... The heart of this essay describes how Bradstreet used the rhetorical structure of contradiction to portray her theme. ...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The sentence structure within this story relates to rhyming. I believe he was kind of showing off within this sonnet because not only did this man know how to write poetry, he knew the details that came along with it as with the sentence structure and rhyming. Shakespeare not only know how to write poetry while using sentence structure, he also uses imagery in his sonnet. ... The sonnet is well structured from it being parallel and each couplet standing in complete sentences. ... The repetitions at the beginning of each part of the sonnet resemble a structure that Shakespeare seems to follow...

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

Understanding the assumed criteria of a poem is the key to interpreting the meaning; which often lies in how the poet has chosen to differentiate the anticipated structure. In the same way that adjusting the structure informs the analysis of the poem, the original form reflects content. ... But the persona is as calm as the lulling nature of the unchanged metrical structure. ... The structure of the poem reflects the persona's internal conflict and clarifies to the reader the struggle between what is rational and what feels right in the moment. ... The persona's internal struggle to ...

• Word Count: 1710
• Approx Pages: 7

The structure of this poem is likely using the narrative method, naturally and smoothly pictured a story of his journey for readers. ... After reading this whole poem carefully, the structure that writer used was clear and logical, from seeking the temple, then felt emptiness and appeared motions that finally made him to sit still and started study himself in some extent. ... "Moved by the moment, flowers splash with tears, alarmed at parting, birds startle the heart. " During the second and third sentences, he used parallel structure. ...

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

The dynamic visual and auditory rhythm in the poem parallels the power of its imagery. ... Now the waves strike them but they are too/well made, they slip through, though they take in canvas." (21-24) Williams chooses to make an interesting point when he creates four structured verses within "The Yacht's" encumbered form. ...

• Word Count: 1354
• Approx Pages: 5

Instead there is the "prickly pear" that parallels the image of the "the cactus land" previously discussed. ... The structure of the poem consists of regular rhythms and short linear lines. ...

• Word Count: 1435
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Relating to the religious theme of spiritual resurrectionis the allusion to Jesus Christ in line six.The sun in "and this is the sun's birthday- can be seen two different ways.On one level, the speaker is proclaiming that this is the first day of his new life, and therefore this is the first sun he is seeing.Since the poem is a direct address ("You God-), however, there might be a more religious meaning behind the reference to the sun.Cummings may be implying the "son,"" meaning Jesus Christ.This biblical reference would follow the parallel that the rebirth of the speaker is similar to ...

• Word Count: 2203
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

" Thus the reader can therefore draw parallels between the definition of empathy and the intertextuality that Duffy is perceived to have employed in the poem. ... Perhaps the structure and diction of the poem, which Duffy retains incredibly succinct, can be equated to represent the unusual mechanism of time in a dream, and how it seems to lose its normal gist of fluidity in the context of a dream. ...

• Word Count: 1990
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Blake's poetry demonstrates the inevitable evolvement from the joyful innocence of childhood to a despairing world of experience through a sense of parallels, which reflects upon the expression "there is no progression without contraries". ... This pessimistic point of view creates a bitter, cynical, scathing tone towards the social and religious structure that allows parents to pray in church while their children are sold into slavery. ...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate