So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind. ... I hope you had the time of your life. ... The theme of each poem is linked by the central idea that childhood (youth) is an amazing experience and when one grows up, one loses some of the better qualities and opportunities that are available to a child. ... These lines show how eventually age will get the better of you and you will not be able to do the things you can when you are young. Life often ends as the poem does, in a gray boring blend; the purpose of this poem is to advise people to take advantage of their early years so t...

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• Grade Level: High School

Line 5: The speaker compares himself to dust that "England bore." ... Line 5: The speaker is a "dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware." England can't really do these things, so this is a case of personification (the attribution of human qualities to non-human things). ... ANALYSIS FORM AND METER A Sonnet In Your Bonnet What we've got here, gang, is a sonnet. ... We do? ...

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Frost also uses some strong irony in "Departmental" and "Provide" which both have some sarcasm involved. ... Here is a strong sat ireful meaning "Better go down dignified with boughten friendship at your side than none at all Provide, provide!" He is clearly making a joke of the materialistic world and believed in down to earth simple things. ... Frost makes use of some ironary. ... It's only after the fact that we realize that the first few lines; he was bored and fell asleep while reading his friends poems. ...

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It is nicer to be encircled by people who try to please you, who catch you when you fall, rather than by people who make your lie miserable and trip you up. ... The poet also brings up traps and deception in the fifth stanza when inflexible "bureaucrats" bully and nag him for things which only interest the bureaucrat. ... "Old" men's lectures are usually boring but they must be heard. ... The poet uses this method because it shows that these are things that we have to do for society but in actual fact are still sins. For instance, "my words when they speak me" relates to the things y...

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• Grade Level: High School

Some of his primary focus of literary work consisted of Mortality, Nature, and Humanity. ... Along with the setting he wanted you to feel this breeze rub against your skin which creates a sense of peace and tranquility that this sight brought to your inner soul .Several contributing factors that inspired William Wordsworth to write poetry throughout his life were brilliant poetry writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Milton, English poets, Robert Burns, a Scottish poet, Walter Scott, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edwund Spenser, George Herbert and David Hartley. ... People have become i...

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After doing several years of research on the imagery, and learning of the Imagist Movement, she traveled to England to do further research. ... If it doesn't come from your heart, real Amy Lowell, it is no good, no matter how many colors it may have" (Curley, 231). ... In "A Critical Survey of Poetry," we find that some critics today do not feel that Lowell was an adequate writer: "Lowell's work... often faulted for being focused on externalities and devoid of human emotion... ... After reading poetry by the same author, in the same style, only with different words tends to...

• Word Count: 2108
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• Grade Level: High School

Then, when humans were first able to string sounds together to form words and to compose complex words with multiple syllables they were in fact composing the first poems. ... "Which is easier to memorize, a poem or a chapter in your biology text book?"... I'll be a genius of some kind or other, probably in literature. ... (Ginsberg, Allen, Early Journal Entries, May 1941) Both would prove to be the premise for scholarly debate but Ginsberg did comment, " I am no longer bored by life in general (as mentioned in a previous year) because of my extra-curricular activities. I haven't th...

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Rossetti challenged the accepted notion of female creativity and in some extent can be considered a feminist poet. ... He suggested, in a letter to her brother, Dante Gabriel, that: "Irregular measure is the chief calamity of modern poetry your sister should exercise herself in the severest commonplace of meter until she can write as the public likes; then if she puts in her observation and passion all will become precious. ... To label Goblin Market as a children's poem opens the door for Rossetti to explore "themes of the evil of self-indulgence, the fraudulence of sensuous beauty ...

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