A very structured poem necessary to create the sense of boundaries and parameters like the ones that boxed in the violence in her household and contained it there. ... 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. ... A man is king in his own castle, he can still say, having got what he wanted: in a lifetime of used o...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The reason for his radical behavior is the fact that there are two sides to Claude as Susan Rosowski points out; "On the one hand there was Claude, a sensitive youth burning with desire to find meaning; on the other, there was his world-intractable, immediate, alien" (Rosowski 97). This argument in itself can be easily argued, but the facts are there to back up the theory. ... Here there were no street lamps, not even a light in the windows, but natural darkness; with the moon high overhead throwing sharp shadows across the white cobble paving (Cather 1197). ...

• Word Count: 5298
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School