Poets like Owen paint a picture of this emotional struggle through their diction and help readers to understand the hardships that face soldiers on a daily basis. ... The speaker then challenges the reader to dream of having to pace behind the wagon where they have laid their fellow soldier and hear the sounds the body makes due to the effects of gas on the body: . . . watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter...

• Word Count: 1643
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This poem lets the readers build up a picture of what men during the First World War had to endure; pain, food rationing, trench foot, mustard gas and even if you were very unfortunate, you could be lying in no-mans-land injured, screaming and shouting. An image that paints a vivid picture in our heads of the horrific nature of war is shown in verse one. ... We need to imagine what it was like as we are reminded by repetition, "...if you could hear- The final and most bitter part of the poem that points a striking picture of the disgusting nature of war would have to b the expressions use...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Blake uses this final line as guidance whereas the second poem ends with the "misery" that is the true picture of the young chimney sweeps life. ... The contrast is just like that of looking at the same picture in two different ways. The first picture printed in color and the second in black and white. ...

• Word Count: 1853
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

There is, I believe, envy in the words of the speaker in the opening stanza, his claim of "heart aches" and a "drowsy numbness" that holds him contrasts strongly with the lively, vivacious picture of the "light-winged Dryad of the trees" that is the nightingale. ... The speaker's imagination presents to us, I believe, his picture of the very heart of nature, there is a sense of fertility in the language when he speaks of "flowers" at his feet, a "fruit-tree wild" and the "coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine". ... When the speaker in Ode to a Nightingale asks the question which world is th...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Since the "hollow men" possesses a "headpiece filled with straw" a picture of a scarecrow denied a brain is envisioned. ... Instead of just using adjectives Eliot includes an adjective and its direct opposite to paint a more vivid picture of the colorless and formless setting. ... The final portion of the poem begins lightheartedly, poking fun at lines from a child's nursery rhyme: Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear Although the real song focuses on a flourishing mulberry bush Eliot doesn't. ...

• Word Count: 1435
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The poet's loving memories of his relationship with his father slowly unfolds with each stanza so that we are presented with a complete picture of his father. ... This pattern of incongruous imagery at the final line is a feature of almost every stanza of the poem constantly bringing the reader back to the present day from images of the past. ... This is echoed in the final stanza the tone changes to one of dramatic monologue, whereby Betjeman addresses God directly and his bitterness at the loss of his father is reflected in the repetition of "thus and thus", suggesting that th...

• Word Count: 1321
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

He opens the poem like a storyteller and "presents an idyllic picture of childhood on a farm, filled with vivid imagery which presents a child's view of the world" (Tremlett 150). ... However Thomas's views of childhood in the first stanzas are "contrasted in the final stanzas with the regret of the adult as he recalls the loss of the innocence and splendor of childhood" (Korg 93). ... Time is the enemy of everyone and the "final transition from the remembered glories of childhood to the reality of the adult world is irrevocable" (Korg 93). ... The final men that Thomas talks abou...

• Word Count: 1651
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

But "time's wingëd chariot- paints a different picture. ... The final part of the poem celebrates the now and the pleasures available to us. ... It is remarkable that so few words can paint such a vivid picture. ...

• Word Count: 1553
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Feminine liberation, a concept which secedes much of Plath's poetry is explored in the final stanzas of 'Lady Lazarus'. ... In the poem's final stanza, Plath again plays on a familiar allusion to explore the concept of individual liberation. ... Hughes, known until the publication of Birthday Letters as a somewhat impersonal poet uses his final work to explore an unfamiliar theme of guilt and culpability. ... Hughes use of the familiar to heighten such an idea is continued in 'A Picture of Otto', a poem at the end of Birthday Letters. ...

• Word Count: 2183
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Modernist era arrived in late nineteenth century Europe due to a general change in the attitude of the time. The effects of Industrialization on Europe's society, the development of scientific theories, such as Darwin's evolution theory', and the tension between the European nations that was ...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The final stanza symbolizes death and marriage both through television "to be ever faithful to each other", "till next they meet at world at war". ... The girl looking away symbolises that she is too good for the man wanting to take her picture. ...

• Word Count: 1435
• Approx Pages: 6

The line "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" speaks true to the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words". ... After reading this poem, one must ask- was so much of his time spent creating this fictional urn, only to inform society of his final analogy of his time on earth? ...

• Word Count: 1253
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Elizabeth Bishop In 1916, a young child was forced in to reality when her mother was permanently admitted into an insane asylum. Unfortunately, the child could seek no solace in her father because he died the year she was born. Left with no choice, she went to live with grandparents that she c...

• Word Count: 1338
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It also marked a distinctive break with the bourgeois morality of the Victorian Age, rejecting 19th-century optimism and presenting a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. ... Therefore the end of the war brought no sense of moral relief for either side, and a great many people, like Oswald Spengler, even argued that the European culture had entered the final stage of its existence. ...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Suddenly the poem takes a sharp turn into its final section where the prisoner is liberated, though his response invokes a feeling of dejection and pessimism. ... The reader is given no information regarding his physical health, though already they paint a picture in their minds of a broken man. ...

• Word Count: 1959
• Approx Pages: 8

This final version includes a "Dedicatory Letter" to Miss Fermor, which serves the purpose of excusing the previous "imperfect" draft, with which the lady was less than pleased, as well as introducing the theme of the poem: the "little unguarded follies" of the fair sex. ... When we look at the language used by Pope in any sequence concerning the sylphs we can certainly picture these " lucid squadrons" . ...

• Word Count: 2068
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate