One of the poems was in his poetry collection Songs of Innocence, and the other in the collection named Songs of Experience. To make it easier, I will from now on refer to the poem from Songs of Innocence as poem 1, and the poem from Songs of Experience, poem 2. ... The speaker in poem 2 is still a child and shows some innocence, although he presumably is somewhat older and more experienced. An element that emphasizes a degree of innocence in both speakers is an expression that is used in both poems. ... It stands for happiness, playfulness, joyfulness, God, angels, children and innocence. ...

• Word Count: 2076
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He first describes the innocence of his childhood, then his disparity and vanity of old age and lastly, the purity of his sister. ... In the last stanza he writes to not think of Spring's songs because Autumn has songs of her own. ... Wordsworth used it to express innocence and purity. ...

• Word Count: 702
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Then he becomes conscious of a shy and hidden thrush warbling forth "Death's outlet song of life". ... The song of the bird, which he is beginning to appreciate, induces him "a mystical state" from which come mystical visions: "To the tally of my soul,/ Loud and strong kept up the gray-brown bird/ While my sight that was bound in my eyes unclosed,/As to long panoramas of visions." ... The American elegiac sensibility--in Cooper, Melville, Thoreau, Mark Twain, James, and others--is most strongly engaged by the sense of lost modes of innocence, lost possibilities of brotherhood, magnanimity...

• Word Count: 1210
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

He wrote poems reminiscent of his childhood and lost innocence. ... However Thomas's views of childhood in the first stanzas are "contrasted in the final stanzas with the regret of the adult as he recalls the loss of the innocence and splendor of childhood" (Korg 93). The turning point in the poem comes when the child realizes his youth will not last forever: "And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows / In all his tuneful turnings so few and such morning songs" (42-43). ...

• Word Count: 1651
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A hidden issue in the novel would be the absence of innocence amongst young children coupled with the task of taking on responsibility well beyond the tender age bracket. ... They locked themselves in for several days ate good food and sang songs to uplift each other's spirits. ...

• Word Count: 1040
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"Dylan Thomas's poems are exuberant, often florid and occasionally obscure". a) How far do you agree with the above assessment of the collection in "Selected Poems"? Dylan Thomas's "Selected Poems" offers a wide magnitude of poetry, ranging from poems that are filled with exuberant, elaborate,...

• Word Count: 2553
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School