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

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

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