The quote "gauze stockings" symbolizes her as a royal queen or someone among high ranking. ... Wealthy individuals within palaces have two story environments and these "jeweled steps" may be outside or inside. ... This story resembles a lot of Disney movies to me where there's a prince and the entire story revolves where she's on a mission to find her prince charming. ... The sentence structure within this story relates to rhyming. ... These images correlate to the sonnet by resembling real life objects and events with the story. ...

• Word Count: 1745
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This famous quote from Keats' "Endymion"" perfectly describes what he loved to pen: works on beauty, and beauty is one of the main themes in his work "Ode on a Grecian Urn". ... Although lines 26 and 27 are usually tied with the second story, it can be applied to both love stories documented on the urn. ... The second story is that of the young man playing his pipe under a tree for his lover. ... Through these stories, Keats was teaching the reader to savor the moment. ... Joseph Pearce analyzes Keats' famous quote and determines that "It is Christ Himself who is truth. ...

• Word Count: 1262
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The Odyssey" is closed to the story of the hero and centers its plot around the theme of a journey, highlighting Greek culture particularly pertaining to heroism. ... A quote that demonstrates this concept well can be found when Whitman states: "For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you./ I loafe and invite my soul,/ I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass./" (Whitman 1) This quote clearly demonstrates Whitman's difference from the classical epic. ... This quote demonstrates Whitman's position in the U.S. ... Just as Whitman boun...

• Word Count: 1717
• Approx Pages: 7
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" This quote is pretty self-evident. ... This quote makes up stanzas 2,4, and 6. Those are perfect positions to place the quote since it is a reminder of Angelou's point right after an impactful example and only intensifies a reader's emotional reflection on Angelou's words. ... When asked about an autobiography in an interview, Angelou stated that she thinks about what she writes and derives it off her experiences: I have an idea that the books are very much like the Everyman stories so that there is greed and kindness and generosity and cruelty, oppression, and sloth. .....

• Word Count: 1766
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Robert Frost was considered the "most popular modern American poet of the twentieth century" (Literature Online 1). His use of natural images and traditional poetic technique give him a fashion that is desirable to the fictitious ears. Throughout his literary career, Frost had been both celeb...

• Word Count: 2122
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

People might think that this poem is a story of a dancer from Harlem. ... An example of this is in the quote "I knew her self was not in that strange place," implying that he knows she can make something better of her life. By the speaker's reaction to the dancers few actions, I think that there is a larger story behind the breif scenario presented in the poem. ...

• Word Count: 1662
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

People might think that this poem is a story of a dancer from Harlem. ... An example of this is in the quote "I knew her self was not in that strange place," implying that he knows she can make something better of her life. By the speaker's reaction to the dancers few actions, I think that there is a larger story behind the breif scenario presented in the poem. ...

• Word Count: 1634
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He has been quoted to say, "I am not a nature poet. ... Frost is not trying to tell nature stories nor animal stories, but rather uses symbolism metaphorically, implying an analogy to some human regard. ...

• Word Count: 1415
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Poetry gave me a rebirth at age twenty-nine" (American Literature 3591), Anne quoted many times during her career. ... Through out her career, Anne wrote not only poetry but also short stories and books for children as well. ...

• Word Count: 1368
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Predominant was the free use of indirect speech, the use of comparison, overwhelming use of personification, irony, metaphor, hyperbole, symbolism, discontinuous narrative, and psychoanalysis etc. and allusion to myths and stories from another time was also popular. ... " is quoted because Prufrock is uncertain if he should do it or not. ...

• Word Count: 1454
• Approx Pages: 6

Certainly one of the most unique poets to write life's story through his own view of the world and with the ambition to do it was Walter Whitman. ... Whitman immediately seized on this, placing quotes of the praise on the binding of his second edition and also including the entire letter in the back of the book, as well as his own response. ...

• Word Count: 1688
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Best known for bringing the Imagist Movement to America during the age of Jazz, Amy Lowell also brought forth an undeclared sexual revolution for poetry in America. Born into a wealthy family of scholars in Brookline, Massacusetts she resided on 200 acres of land and was home schooled. In fac...

• Word Count: 2108
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School