He wrote unoriginal poems and stories for popular magazines and made political speeches, for which Tammany Hall democrats rewarded him with the editorship of various short-lived newspapers. ... The New York Times Book Review gave this quote "new poem after new poem makes clear how deeply each Frost poem bears on all Frost poems, and how surely all are a constant symbol of his life's commitment to making metaphors that clarify the dark paradoxes they contain. Probably the most famous quote was given by President Kennedy "his death impoverishes us all; but he has bequeathed his nation a b...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

This comedic turn shows the difference between the noble, allegorical characters in the story (Alcyone, Juno, Seys) and the realistic, human characters of the poet's world. ... The story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible would have been known to most people through stories, but the reference to Macrobius's Latin commentary on the earlier Latin writer Cicero's  Dream of Scipio  was erudite. ... The proem sets the stage for the main story of this poem, the narrator's dream. ... The windows of the chamber in which he lies are stained glass, and they depict the story of the Tro...

• Word Count: 5753
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School

A charming story follows, explaining that the first section of the book was useful in overcoming writer's block. ... "Dusting" tells the story of watching her mother dust pieces of furniture, erasing all of her carefully placed signatures and fingerprints, with an innocent wonder. ... One critic describes it as a "diary-like assemblage of meditations, stories, and confessions (Muratori 2)." ... Alvarez is quoted as admitting, "I am a Dominican, hyphen, American. ... "[This] is even stronger, I think, for immigrant and minority populations where it feels like it's a betrayal of the gr...

• Word Count: 2799
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... I got there before the boys did, he knows, hearing" The poet creates a new image of the predator as an elderly man then returns to the past quoting her father, "I got there before/the boys did," Here the reader joins the narrator in remembering the words and experiencing the feelings of terror these words arouse. ...

• Word Count: 3020
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The quote itself actually is a good example of how Keats brings about a cold feel to the poem at this point, which is ironic as we associate cold temperatures with loss. ... Nature and man's representations in each of the poems are all quite different, but all have a part in the basic story of this on-going interaction between man and nature. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", being the earliest of the three poems, has the "knight-at-arms", a chivalrous character, and the "full beautiful faery's child", a fantasy character, as nature and man's representations, as the whole poem has...

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• Approx Pages: 14