Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem, "The Love Song of J. ... He composed and read the valedictory poem for his graduation in 1905. His first published poem, "A Fable For Feasters", was written as a school exercise and was published in the Smith Academy Record  in February 1905. ... His undergraduate poems were "literary" and conventional. ... Poetry For a poet of his stature, Eliot produced a relatively small number of poems. ...

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The word "England" or "English" occurs six times in this poem. That's a lot for a poem that is only 14 lines! ... Nature Imagery SYMBOL ANALYSIS There's a lot of nature in this poem. ... Let's start with the overall form of the poem, shall we? ... And yet this poem isn't exactly, 100% in the English style. ...

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Poe's Poems In personal appearance, Edgar Allen Poe was a quiet, shy-looking, but handsome man; he was slightly built, and was five feet, eight inches in height. ... Poe developed a theory that he applied to both his short stories and his poems. ... Upon reading "The Raven- so closely, any reader can agree that it is an incredibly eerie and especially terrifying poem. ... The repetitive six line stanzas written in iambic octameter keep a strict rhyming scheme: abcbbb, where b is the end-rhyme for Lenore which is consistent throughout the 108 lines of the poem. ... Poems that rhy...

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A proem is a short introduction, in verse, to the matter and meaning of the rest of the poem. Some published editions of the poem do not make a division between The Proem and The Dream. The Proem is lines 1 through 290, and The Dream is lines 291 through 1334, the end of the poem. ... With "To lytel while oure blysse lasteth" [too little while our bliss lasts] (line 211), he leaves her, echoing a theme of this and other poems in Chaucer's love-poetry oeuvre. ... The proem sets the stage for the main story of this poem, the narrator's dream. ...

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In this poem, nature is trying to get back to man, as "The deer had come for me". ... Also, the fantasy style poem brings about a strong contrast with the style used in the more recent poems of Hughes and Heaney, who have chosen to use more realistic representations in their poems with the boy and the man, and the rat and the deer, and therefore demonstrates how these poems might have been based upon real-life events. ... The only referral to this poem as being modern is where the man is in the car. ... In each of these poems, different circumstances bring together man and nature. ... The d...

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Dylan Thomas's "Selected Poems" offers a wide magnitude of poetry, ranging from poems that are filled with exuberant, elaborate, florid words to poems that offer obscure, mysterious insights into metaphor and imagery. ... This makes the poem very ambiguous there doesn't seem to be any definite relevance to the poem or at least the poem on its own. ... The poem is involved in one large life cycle evaluation adjoining several poems to describe this cycle, like verses in a song. ... This poem brings ! ... After studying Dylan Thomas's Selected Poems, I have decided that the statem...

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These phrases really do bring the poem to life. ... In "Mid-Term Break", Heaney uses the sense of sight much less than in the other two poems, because it is a very emotional poem. ... The rest of the poem is really all emotions. ... Heaney hardly uses the senses at all in "Mid-Term Break because it is an emotional poem rather than a sensual poem. As in almost all poems, the mood changes (turning points) a few times in all of Heaney's poems. ...

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He states this here "That a poem may have varying interpretations is a critical commonplace. That all interpretations of a poem are equally valid is a critical heresy," (Perrine 1). ... "The poem is a description of a sunset. ... In this quotation Perrine is showing the correct interpretation of the poem. ... " This quote is Perrine explaining the correct way of analyzing the poem. ...

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It was here that Poe met the first woman who would inspire one of his poems. ... In the poem, "To Helen," Poe seems to somewhat glorify women. It is believed that he directed this poem to his "ideal love." ... The poem begins by expressing joy and happiness in Poe's tone. ... He uses the sea in the poem to symbolically represent these feelings. ...

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The following two poems strike like lightning; readers experience extraordinary power as they encounter each poem. ... McCarriston's poems are a chronology of her pain from childhood to adolescence to adult. ... The entire poem has eight stanza and four lines in each. ... McCarriston often uses castles (large, fortified, imposing buildings) in her poems. ... At the end of the poem the author figuratively reveals how insignificant the girl/women feels. ...

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Choose three poems and consider how far they support this view of her work. ... However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." ... In my opinion this poem has two main themes, both of which greatly contribute to the overall feeling of the poem. The first is the refusal to separate from each shown by the two pigeons in the poem. ... The second poem I shall explore is called "Song". ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He tries to portray in his poems a real and clear picture of the problems of contemporary age in an implicit way, and then shows a positivity or a ray of hope at the end of almost all his poems. ... The poem consists of many smaller poems, written in iambic tetrameter with an ABBA rhyme scheme. ... Through the analysis of some sections of this poem, it can be taken into account the relations to the romantic vision of nature and religion in Wordsworth's poem. ... Surely, the theme of the poem, Arthur Henry Hallam's death provided him the excuse to question his faith in God and as ...

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All four poems were uniquely named Cotton Nero A.X. ... In 1916, George Lyman Kittredge's ongoing study of the poem contained extremely valuable research of the sources and analogues of the poem. ... Sir Gawain is extremely courteous throughout the poem. ... She is introduced during the complications of the poem. ... The poem begins within a symbol. ...

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So, the last stanza answers the questions that we've been wondering through the poem. ... The poem develops an image of a family supporting their brother, and son, before he goes off to fight in Europe. ... Throughout the poem, Cummings uses the word "etcetera," for many different usages, and parts of speech. ... Most importantly, the poem foreshadows his later poems, which put love on a pedestal, high above the power of conflict, or anything else on earth. ... Also, "i sing of Olaf," relates to a completely different poem Cummings wrote called "any man is wonderful."...

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The New York Times Book Review gave this quote "new poem after new poem makes clear how deeply each Frost poem bears on all Frost poems, and how surely all are a constant symbol of his life's commitment to making metaphors that clarify the dark paradoxes they contain. ... Other poems followed about the Civil War. An example of one would be a poem called Beat! ... It is clear that this is a poem about the Civil War. ... This poem is about the wartime letters to his mother. ...

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He writes mostly of mourning poems (see poems). ... This poem is a poem that he has written to his love form where he is, and how he only wishes to be with this person of which he loves so dearly. ... He also stated that this poem is not quite as straight forward as many of Hardy's other poems are (Collins 93). In another criticism on "After a Journey-, the poem is said to be one of the five poems that were the peak of his accomplishments (Davie 93). ... In this poem it is the person who has passed away who is the speaker of this poem, and he follows his friend around to places he cou...

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His later poems, after the war, continue to use the same themes that seriously depict his unstable mind. ... For Gurney, things like nobility and pride, once emphasized in his poems, were now changed to symbols of futility and death. Consequently, his war poems become more direct with its shocking use of content. ... Gurney also uses alliteration in all four stanzas, which provides an elusive rhythm to the poem. ... The poems dominating idea is memory and how the dead are remembered. ...

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From this, later in his life he will write the poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking". This poem tells about his boyhood on the Long Island shore and how was his desire to be a poet. ... Later he would write the poem "There was a Child Went Forth" where he express his philosophy of teaching. ... There Whitman published a version of his New Orleans poem called "Once I Pass'd Through a Populous city". This poem recounts a romance with a woman. ...

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The conclusive paragraph draws on the common motifs to Whitman and Dickinson in the poems analyzed. ... Poetry of the Nature In this poem Dickinson creates her characteristic fusion of nature and art, of the rose and the poem (Fart,Carter,2005). ... Thus, the given rose becomes the message and the poem at the same time. ... Erotic connotation of the poem However, even considering the simile between nature and poetry as the focusing point, the only words that precede verses in their original form of letter text can suggest a different interpretation of the whole poem: "You and I, didn't f...

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Therefore, the mood was one of the main driving forces of the poem. The poem was written with a very descriptive and effective outline of the setting, which added to the intensity of the poem. ... One can derive from the poem that it was written or speaks about a time during the spring months. ... Wordsworth used a type on rhyme scheme that is not present in many poems of his time but the lack a popularity of the format does not affect the magnificence of the poem. ... There are also several instances in which Wordsworth uses alliteration in the poem. ...

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The poem 'Here' follows a car journey through different types of landscapes. ... The poem is split up into four stanzas, each one representing a different type of landscape. ... The word 'swerving' is used to introduce the poem and is repeated in the second line. ... From this point there is a sense of change and ageing in the poem. ... The poem is sep...

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Throughout the poem, many instances illustrate a great feeling of hatred toward Plath's father. ... Plath uses imagery heavily in her poem to express her struggles in life. She casts her father into different metaphors throughout the poem. ... Plath's use of imagery and the style in her poems have intrigued the thoughts of many critics. ... In this poem Plath often uses her father as a metaphor for good, the good in people, the good in life. ...

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Being also a talented painter he printed his poems as graphical sheets with his own engravings. ... In this essay I will try to look at one of his poems, The Lamb which a consider to be of great significance from different aspects: firstly I will try to place it in the context of innocence based on the collection of songs, then try to explore the religious hints in the poem and finally, since the poems in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience come in pairs, I cannot avoid bringing the two poems in comparison. ... The key poem in the Songs of Innocence is The Lamb. ... The issue ...

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In my paper, I will use these two poems to explain a number of strategies that had utilization by the Victorians to treat women and their sexuality. ... In the poem, Tennyson utilizes both the exterior and interior space to illustrate the idea of an isolated woman. ... In various ways, the poem "The Lady of Shalott" emphasized on the idea of the restrained woman in the Victorian Age. Even though the title of the poem alludes to the fact that it will center upon the woman character, Tennyson places emphasis on the natural surroundings of the poem. ... Although Tennyson places the sett...

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The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. ... In addition, at the time the poem was written, the poet's country of birth, the island of St. ... As Walcott is divided in two, so too is the poem. ... Just as the uprising was never cleanly resolved, Walcott, at least within the poem, never resolves his conflict about whose side to take. Poem Summary The first three lines depict the poem's setting on the African...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate