The second and third stanzas of the poem, depicts the journey founded through the transitioning from sleep to their awakening. ... Despite the second and third stanza mainly identifying with the journey of a foetus, the last stanza of the poem provides the depiction of the awakening of not only the child but also the sleeper. The symbolism of the word, "daylight," defines the awakening of not only the child as it enters the light of the real world, but also the awakening of an individual after a night of sleep. ...

• Word Count: 684
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The literary canon, a historical body of masterpieces and classics, is considered the best of the best; literary works that withstood the test of time. Many of the authors whose works have been included in the canon are white males like William Shakespeare and Mark Twain. The general exclusion of wo...

• Word Count: 510
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ted Hughes' "Crow's Theology" is written as an internal dialogue going on in the mind of a crow. The poem begins with what seems to be the crow's awakening in realizing his own existence. As the poem progresses, it gradually gets darker as the questions he poses get harder and harder to answer. By...

• Word Count: 820
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This statement is indicative of many things, one being the speaker's resentment towards the woodchucks for awakening this side of his/her personality, and another being the tremendous influence of the holocaust. ...

• Word Count: 819
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

John Keats "Ode to Psyche" is a lyrical poem that is revealed through a euphoric utopia where ideas and aspirations become the fundamental elements that maintain the human spirit. The persona's perpetual love for the goddess Psyche is clear by way of his proposal to create the perfect life for her....

• Word Count: 1317
• Approx Pages: 5
• 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

As he comes to the realization that he is waiting in line behind a poisonous snake for the water trough, the spondee in line 23 interrupts his thoughts, awakening the reader with "he must be killed," a line that is impossible to read without the authoritative voice the stressed syllables demand. ...

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Shahriari skillfully uses vivid diction, awakening tone and the use of rhetorical devices in his poem to showcase his immigrant voice and feelings through his literary work, showing the struggle he had to endure and how it made him the man he is today. ...

• Word Count: 1494
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Stages of Acceptance in T. S. Eliot's "Burnt Norton" The Four Quartets were written over a period of eight years, from 1935 to 1942. These years span World War II and they also follow Eliot's conversion to the Church of England and his naturalization as a British subject. These poems are the work...

• Word Count: 2598
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A proem is a short introduction, in verse, to the matter and meaning of the rest of the poem. Some published editions of the poem do not make a division between The Proem and The Dream. The Proem is lines 1 through 290, and The Dream is lines 291 through 1334, the end of the poem. In  The Book of the Duchess, the poet is introduced in the first person. He has difficulty getting to sleep and has not slept, he says, for eight years. ...

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

Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...

• Word Count: 5237
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School