This encounter lead him to visualize a great distinct physical image of her so he began to speak of this phenomenal attractiveness. ... Essentially the female in this poem is evaluated in terms of the physical world. ... She Walks in beauty can be defined as a lyric poem because of its many characteristics. ... The tone encountered in Lord Byron's poem, is the tone of voice of an inspired man by love and physical attraction. ... Clearly, "She Walks in Beauty" is a poem referred to the physical beauty of a woman. ...

• Word Count: 1724
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Nonetheless, Paterson is making a bold statement concerning the physicality of love and the acts included. ... Paterson makes more light hearted references in the poem "Letter to the Twins " referring more to the act of love than the physicality of it. ... In the curves and corners of this silent song will lie the whole code of your intercourse. " Paterson, while still touching on the physicality of love, mentions "learn this and she will guide you, " it is believed that Paterson is referring to the act of love itself. ... Finally, Paterson begins to touch upon the physicality of love again. ...

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

The poem starts with fairly concrete physical setting of a cityscape and then moves to interiors like women's arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons and fireplaces. ... These theories are like different lenses that views literature privileging particular aspects of a work over other characteristics. ... Alfred Prufrock", for example, the narrator's characteristics, helpless tone and thoughts in the poem, insecured and confused expression. ...

• Word Count: 1454
• Approx Pages: 6

Abrams states that "no less characteristic of romantic theory is a set of alternative analogies implying that poetry is an interaction, the joint effect of inner and outer, mind and object, passion and the perceptions of sense" (51). ... As a result, Shelley's use of metaphor "seems fairly obvious: it is a mediator between physical object and percept. It separates man from its physical environment, but nevertheless grants its perception" (Knirsch). ...

• Word Count: 1524
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

John Betjeman's " On a Portrait of a Deaf Man" portrays a beloved father through an elegy constructed of disquieting contrasts, creating a poignant but incongruous tribute to a dead, deaf father. The poet's loving memories of his relationship with his father slowly unfolds with each stanza so that w...

• Word Count: 1321
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The capitalization of these two principal words occurs because the speaker is actively thanking and praising God throughout the poem.Since he feels that God is a much higher being, he capitalizes the name God and the pronoun used in reference to him.Although Cummings can show the speaker's feelings of extreme reverence through metaphors and symbols within the poem, he can alter the physical characteristics of the poem as well in order to make these feelings even more important.The fact that the name and all references to God himself are capitalized shows that the speaker gives God more re...

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

Shakespeare's reason for using euphony and cacophony could be that he was trying to form different sounds to accommodate the different characteristics of this woman. ... There is more to a person than physical appearance. A person can find love in the spirit of the person and the heart and mind are more important than physical traits. ...

• Word Count: 1776
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The children are free to leap and shout and laugh under the responsible care of the nurse, who watches over the children, indulging their desires, and yet taking care of their physical well being. ... These are also the characteristics from which the child-speaker approaches the ideas of nature and of God. ...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She specifically mentions certain body parts, immediately humanizing the prisoner without giving the reader any real defining characteristics. ... The reader is given no information regarding his physical health, though already they paint a picture in their minds of a broken man. ...

• Word Count: 1959
• Approx Pages: 8

Yet by exposing these foibles "through characteristics of the sylphs rather than of Belinda herself" Pope is fulfilling the workings of satire, showing us a society obsessed with superficial splendour, class and social status. ... He surely intended to comment on the less pleasing aspects of the community in which he was "a total outsider" due to his own physical defects. ...

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