It is the same poem he had read to his wife and child the night before they died. With this discovery, unintentional memorization of the eight line poem (Palahniuk never reveals the exact words of the rhyme to us, but he says "It's about animals going to sleep,") turns Streator from a bored journalist to a reluctant serial killer, in one humorously macabre scene accidentally killing five people within a half an hour period. ... He sees it as his duty to prevent the poem from getting into the wrong hands. With the poem, someone could easily end the human race. ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Explication of "Departmental" Societal parallels and clever allusion to grim processes form most of Robert Frost's poem "Departmental", the entire piece is essentially one large metaphor. ... Further analysis can also reveal that Frost accepts this monotony as a part of nature. ... Through analyzation, one will find that this poem is a series of metaphors and soliloquies which compare the workings of an ant's society to our own, by personifying it as so. ... " The reader is misled by the opening, as one might assume that the poem entails the story of two ins...

• Word Count: 1234
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Auden's Mussee des Beaux Arts is a prime analysis of this theory of suffering and other people's attitudes toward it. It uses several small models of society and one very in depth analysis of Brueghel's painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus to make his point that as a whole, mankind is insensitive to the distress of others. ... Auden's poem Mussee des Beaux Arts proves that this is true. ...

• Word Count: 881
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• Grade Level: High School

The poem states that even though "rosy lips and cheeks" come with time's "bending sickles compass," love feels no impact(9,10). ... In the two poems, time's impact on mankind differs drastically depending on the presence of love. ...

• Word Count: 863
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School