The poet, Robert Frost tries to make us see the picture of a calm winter evening. The imagery shows a vivid picture in my mind. ... The final stanza shows the man's love and adoration for nature: "the woods are lovely". ... There is repetition of the closing lines, which show the whole meaning of the poem; as if all said before relates up to this final decision. ...
(lines 17-20) Service's use of language helps us picture the Yukon through the eyes of someone who loves the area. ... The whole poem is summed up in the final paragraph. ... (lines 69-72) Service riddles this final passage, with parallelism, alliteration and mid-line rhyme to end the poem on a memorable note. ... Its figurative language illustrates a vivid picture of the Yukon and conveys several important themes. ...
Our first thoughts are always second-guessed by our second and so forth until we make our final decision, which cancels out all that was thought before. ... The two roads are each described in such a way that the reader can easy picture the dilemma faced by the traveler. Image is so precise that we can picture the first road bending to the right while the other bends in the opposite direction. ... By the final stanza, the traveler settles on a choice. ...
The revised version is much more discrete and ambiguous when describing the picture of the Lady. ... Her final words help construct an identity for the mysterious "fairy Lady of Shalott". With these words, the character is no longer an abstract image, felt only in song, to the people of Camelot, but rather, she has conveyed a concrete image of her identity (the magic, the weaving, the curse) in the four short, final lines in the 1832 version of the poem. ... The final words of the poem amplify this message by leaving the Lady of Shalott's identity a mystery. In the 1842 versio...
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...
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...
In the poem "The Tyger," William Blake questions the creation and existence of evil. The poet uses the "Tyger" to symbolize evil and to create a sense of ownership to itself, as the entire poem is made up of questions directed at the "Tyger". Throughout the poem, Blake questions the "Tyger" (evil) a...
Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey, life. There is never a straight path that leaves one with but a sole direction in which to head. Regardless of the original message that Robert Frost had intended to convey, his poem, "The Road Not Taken," h...
It is pictured as man who gives the speaker the ride of eternity. ... At the culmination of the third stanza, the setting of the sun represents the transition of life's final stages to death. ... The final stanza of "Because I could not stop for Death" (1) the speaker states that although centuries have passed all the time "Feels shorter than the Day" (22). ...
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...
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. ...
It further develops imagery by assisting the reader to picture the rising cloud of dust in their mind making the poem easier to interpret. ... In the majority of the poem, excluding the last two paragraphs, the meter in the stanzas are trochees where the final line changes to iambic. ...
Lawrence has created an imagery, which is almost instantaneously captivating, the use of the word "lovable"(line 1) gives the audience a picture of happy and pleasant people, and with the tone of voice combined he gives the reader the impression that this happiness is sickly to watch. ... In the final stanza, which is just simply two sentences, Lawrence concludes with the bitterest tone of voice of the whole poem, "I am sick of lovable people, Somehow they are a lie" (lines 15-16) Lawrence has deliberately ended on a bitter note so that the audience can fully comprehend what he is writing...
The pensive, unhurried mood of the poem is reflected with a calm rich imagery that creates a vivid mental picture. ... The final stanza ties in all the sintiments of the poem together, an intense love and awe of nature, a never ending patience and some unknown problems that robs the speaker of rest. ...
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. ...
