The relationships in both poems detach from clichés and hold true to the statement, "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder."" ... Using Petrarch's conventional method, Shakespeare's poem would have stated that "My mistress' eyes are like the sun; her lips are as red as coral; her cheeks are like roses'; her breasts are white as snow, her voice is like music; she is a goddess."" Shakespeare, however, reversed Petrarch's poetry and played a joke on the conventions of common love poetry and stated that his mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is ...

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"Tigress" by Ruth Pitter is a poem that describes about a female tiger's features and about her life as a hunter and a mother. In the beginning of the poem, Ruth is trying to tell us that the tigress is a dangerous animal especially when she's hunting. In a way, as the tigress gets hungry, she ca...

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John Agard intends to show any ignorant, racist people that he is no more "half" a person than "when Picasso mix red an green is a half-caste canvas." ... In the third stanza the analogy continues, although the images are more personal to the narrator as John Agard looks at different senses and how he must only have half an eye and half an ear since he is a "half-caste." ... "I close half-a-eye" indicates the distrust and suspicion he feels every day and "I dream half-a-dream," suggests his ambitions are restricted. John Agard's comparison between "whole" and "half" work well as he i...

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Coral is far more red than her lips" red; The first syllable of "Coral" would be accented and the second syllable unaccented creating a trochiac foot. The last two words in the phrase "lips" red" could both be accented creating a spondaic foot. ... My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips" red; If snow be white, why then here breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. ... My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips" red. ... The sonnet defines that beauty is in the eye of the...

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Based on her past experiences of cleaning fish, Bishop imagines this fish has "coarse white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and little bones, the dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails, and the pink swim bladder like a big peony" (42). ... Likewise, Wordsworth in his poem entitled "Lines" laments the effect that nature has upon him and states that "with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things." ...

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As in Williams" short poem, "The Red Wheelbarrow," where he writes, "so much depends/upon/a red wheel/barrow," so much depends upon "The Yacht's" ungoverned form. ... "In a well guarded arena of open water surrounded by/lesser and greater crafts which, sycophant, lumbering/and flittering follow them, they appear youthful, rare/as the light of a happy eye, live with the grace/of all that in mind is fleckless, free and/naturally to be desired- (13-18) During the opening of "The Yachts," Williams describes the rich and the poor as two entities with no relationship relating each other, oth...

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The poems "Out, Out- "by Robert Frost and "Traveling through the Dark" by William Stafford, both shares the theme of civilization destroying nature. In both poems, life and nature is conveyed as fragile and vulnerable, and that technology and civilization has disrupted the nature of life. The tw...

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The majority of the 152 Sonnets Shakespeare wrote focus on love. Shakespeare wrote poems of admiration as well as poems of suffering because of love and separation. Shakespeare often used metaphors in his descriptions. Sonnet 18 is a poem of admiration and glorification of Shakespeare's lover. Son...

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"In her looking glass my red lips part as though I want to speak " (15-16). ... The poet uses light and romantic colors which appeal to the readers sense of sight including the colors yellow, red, blush and white. ... The enjambments draw the reader's eye from one line to the next in a basic run on sentence, heightening the effect of suspense. ...

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Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers, Linda McCarriston states that "poetry allows the individual experience to strike like lightning through the collective institutional consciousness and to plumb the depths of actual communal experience so that what people don't want said in fact get said". (Moyers p. 272). Her simplest defini...

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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. In  The Book of the Duchess, the poet is introduced in the first person. He has difficulty getting to sleep and has not slept, he says, for eight years. ...

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• Grade Level: High School