In his poem "Lullaby" (Auden 29), there is a clear focus on the expression of love. ... The poem is without a doubt directly spoken to one specific person. This implies that the beloved is the addressee in the poem. ... An important question to ask when one analysis a poem, is whether or not the title is appropriate. ... The appearance of the poem; its metrical basis and rhymes, conforms to the ide...

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

While the vast portion of student readers will give the poem a once-over and get to work, a genuine understanding and analysis takes a bit more time. ... The poem is chalked full of every metaphor you can possibly imagine. ... The poem comes to completion with the baby yearning to communicate. ... Analysis and Interpretation The metaphorical myriad that is Morning Song leaves much to be considered after reading. ... She displays this growth as the poem goes on. ...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The poem by Billy Collins, entitled Days illustrates the same of feelings. ... In the introductory stanza of this poem time is portrayed in a fashion in which a supreme being is giving the most precious gifts of all: Life. ... In the final stanza of this poem, a sense of mourning, reality, and death is present. Sadness takes over the entirety of the poem, and humans are left scrambling as to how and who to spend the last days with. ... What we can learn from this poem is something that will benefit each and every one of us. ...

• Word Count: 1499
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In this poem, Plath adopts a mocking tone to describe those who seek to commodify her suicide attempts. ... In the poem's final stanza, Plath again plays on a familiar allusion to explore the concept of individual liberation. ... In this free verse poem, Hughes seeks to directly access the aforementioned father figure of Otto Plath. In this case, he uses familiar images to provide a significant analysis of Plath's tendency in conflation of her oppressive father and her later husband. ... The poem describes the entangled images of Plath and Hughes created in Sylvia Plath's poetry...

• Word Count: 2183
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An analysis of the astounding collection of poetry and stories by Robert Frost I find the themes of ironary, satire, and most of all nature to be present and persistent. ... From his poem "The Mending Wall" to his poem "In a Disused Graveyard" he has shown several themes to his style of writing. ... In the poem "Mending Wall" the direct comparison is that the speaker Frost is once again using satire and ironary "Good fences make good neighbors", his neighbor from the poem says. ... In the poem "To E.T." ... I feel the arrogance in this poem reflects in some of his other works. ...

• Word Count: 1457
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

as a representative poem for this discussion. ?... is a poem occasioned by the beginning of a new year and a new century. ... Although the situation of the poem is given to the reader in the past tense as a memory, we experience the poem as something the speaker is experiencing in the present. ... emanating from a concrete reality is where the poem becomes the most humane. ... The speaker in the poem is taking a look at the worst. ...

• Word Count: 1579
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School