He looks up and sees the western fallen star. "O the black murk that hides the star!" ... 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." In this way, "Lilac and star and bird twined with the ehant of my soul". ... The poetic process is highly symbolic: the star is associated with the thought of death, the lilac with a token of life for the dead, and the bird with ...

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

He uses elements like the moon and stars and associate them with her bright eyes. ... "Poe mentions the moon and stars in which he observes the bright eyes of his dear Annabel. ... (Johnson pg.4) The poet mentions the moon and the star in which he observes "the bright eyes" of his dear Annabel. "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes of the beautiful Annabel Lee...

• Word Count: 1206
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I pictured a very homely looking woman with dull eyes, pale lips, pasty skin, hideous hair, and appalling breath. ... When it construes the lines such as " My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun" this is an instance of a simile in this sonnet. ... " It is an ever fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken", and " It is the star to every wandering bark" are the metaphors in this sonnet. ...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Later on Tarafa succeeds in confusing the reader when describing his camel as having a "cheek (as) smooth as Syrian parchment her eyes are a pair of mirrors, sheltering in the caves of her brow bones, the rosk of a pool's hollow... Labid begins his Nasib with an intoxicating depiction of an earthly paradise, Labid begins: "naked shows their trace, rubbed smooth, like letterings long since the time their inhabitants tarried there The star borne showers of Spring have fed them, the out- pouring of thundercloud, great deluge and gentle following rain....

• Word Count: 978
• Approx Pages: 4