Please note that a thesis statement is much more precise than a simple topic statement, and raises an issue which the reader will expect to see discussed in the body of the essay. ... There are two important things to note here. ... A discussion of Milton's note on the versification of Paradise Lost might point to his apparent dislike of "the jingling sound of like endings" (255). ... Also note the order of the punctuation after the closing quotation marks and the placement of the parenthetical references. ... All that is really necessary here is a restatement of your thesis and some co...

• Word Count: 1737
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• Grade Level: High School

From the two titles, the reader can note a marked similarity in that the two birds mentioned in the titles are both birds of prey. If we examine the forms of the poems, we are able to note a significant difference in the stanza patterns and lines. ... The poet chooses to personify the hawk to enable it to speak to us, to give a speech. ... "Hooked" gives us an image of power; that the hawk is able to hook anything that it wants. ... The hawk's authoritative tone captures the reader's image in that we are forced to give him noble rank. ...

• Word Count: 1305
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• Grade Level: High School

They came from very poor homes where their parents were forced to give them up, because they could no longer afford to keep them. ... Even though he tells us that his father sold him, he does not seem to give direct blame to his father or being bitter about it. ... from poem 1, and the line: "Crying " 'weep, 'weep," in notes of woe" from poem 2. ... This stanza also gives a hint of something else; Tom Dacre's hair is white and curls like the back of a lamb. ... The third line in the second stanza in poem 2 is one example of how the colour black functions as a destructive elemen...

• Word Count: 2076
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

While the vast portion of student readers will give the poem a once-over and get to work, a genuine understanding and analysis takes a bit more time. ... The child tries a "handful of notes" and Plath relates the sounds of the vowels to a group of balloons rising. ... Lines seventeen and eighteen read, "Your handful of notes;/ The clear vowels rise like balloons.... Not to mention the beautiful simile that ends the poem, "Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like balloons....

• Word Count: 1571
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• Grade Level: High School

This gives the idea of the girl being unspoilt, virginal and pure. ... This gives the reader the illusion that Prestatyn will be the holiday of their dreams. ... He also notes that this was well scored in'. ... The alliteration of s' gives clean, sharp sounds that persuade us to buy these goods, screen graves, custard, salmon, shine, sharply'. ... This gives the image of death. ...

• Word Count: 1300
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• Grade Level: High School

For the purpose of this discussion it is important to note Auden's sexual orientation; he was gay. ... The reason he gives for this is the effect of destructive things such as fever and illness. ... It is functional to note that the rhythmic lines changes later in the poem, just like the rhyme scheme. ...

• Word Count: 1813
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Throughout the poet the maid gives a multitude of images when explaining what her typical day is like working for the mistress. ... When the maid notes at the end that she burns in the absence of the pearls that stay in her mistress' room, she may be hinting towards the fact that she actually burns to be in the bedroom with her mistress as well. When the maid notes that she feels the absence of the pearls, it could symbolize the longing and lust for her desire for the mistress to be in the bedroom with her. ...

• Word Count: 1696
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• Grade Level: High School

The reader must note that the poet who wrote "Cousin Kate" was a wealthy lady, and so could not have encountered the situation in her poem, whereas the poet for "The Seduction" could quite easily have experienced a teenage pregnancy. ... The mood here is triumphant because she knows that she has got what the lord wants most, something which her cousin cannot give, "your father would give lands for one to wear his coronet" She says this to her son, because she knows that this is what the lord wants most, an heir, and her cousin is infertile and cannot give it to him. ... The girl he chose, Co...

• Word Count: 1725
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• Grade Level: High School

Tone The tone of this poem is rather imaginative because it gives us a discription of every-day things from a Martian's point-of-view. ... Purpose I think that Raine wrote this poem to give man a different perspective on our reality. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

• Word Count: 1520
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• Grade Level: High School

Tone The tone of this poem is rather imaginative because it gives us a discription of every-day things from a Martian's point-of-view. ... Purpose I think that Raine wrote this poem to give man a different perspective on our reality. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Analyzing elements of poetic style is generally accepted as one method of exploring a poet's ideas and beliefs. How someone perceives the world is revealed in the way they speak. A poet's attitudes toward what poetry can and should be attempting to communicate are exhibited in style. In other wor...

• Word Count: 1579
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• Grade Level: High School

She described how she would sit and gaze at him when he perused the newspaper or how she would leave sweet notes in his lunch pail. ... My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. ... Recompense is defined as "to give something (such as money) to (someone) as a reward or as a payment for loss or suffering. (Merriam-Webster) What she is saying is she wants the same love she gives him in return. ... Love is communicated via text or email it is no longer personal; it doesn't give you butterflies. ...

• Word Count: 1336
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• Grade Level: High School

At that time, the Whigs wanted to get rid of James, the King's brother and devout Catholic, and give the rights of the throne to his illegitimate son James, Duke of Monmouth, who was a protestant. ... Dryden does not follow the biblical account word for word; he notes that the biblical account ends with the death of Absalom, but that he hopes that the current situation will end peacefully. ...

• Word Count: 1309
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In "For Sophie, Who'll Be in First Grade in the Year 2000- we have a mother figure giving advise to a child, to protect and help her in her quest of life. ... On a lighter note in "For Sophie, Who'll Be in First Grade in the Year 2000- we have a child starting out in school and a woman's advise for her on the world and what she should do in it. ...

• Word Count: 1294
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The final stanza reinforces the idea that change can be positive and that noting should ever stay the same. ... Migrant Hostel is a poem that engages the changing of perspectives of not only migrants, but also gives the responder the opportunity to view the stereotypical behavior towards migrants in the 1950. ...

• Word Count: 1417
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Here the sweep's unfeeling sanctimonious parents have clothed him in the clothes of death and taught him to sing the notes of woe. ... Repetition in the first and last couplet of each stanza makes these lines into a refrain, and helps to give the poem its song-like quality. ... The companion to this poem, found in the Songs of Experience, is The Tyger - read together, the two poems give a perspective on religion that includes the good and clear as well as the terrible and inscrutable. ...

• Word Count: 1564
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The way Frost describes it, as "wanting wear" almost gives away which path the man will choose. ... Frost never clarifies whether the man regrets not doing what so many others have done, possibly giving up friends and fun, or whether that sigh is a wish to go back and do it all again, to relive the good times he had on those un worn paths. ... Garnet writes " he secures a pervading feeling of the mass and movement and elusive force of nature" He continues on "For instance, the reader will note how the feeling of the mountain's might bulk and hanging mass, its vast elbowing flanks, it...

• Word Count: 1767
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• Grade Level: High School

Personification heightens a reader's emotional response to what is being described by giving it human qualities and therefore human significance. ... Note that the connection between sound and pronunciation is sometimes rather a product of imagination and also that written language retains an aural quality, so that even unspoken your writing has a sound to it. ...

• Word Count: 1599
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Therefore, the new generation of poets rose in a protest against the cultural values and traditions of the Victorian Age, trying to give English poetry a new creative urge. ... In 1936 the poet even attached Notes on the Waste Land to the edition in order to explain the work's many quotations and allusions. ...

• Word Count: 1915
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His use of natural images and traditional poetic technique give him a fashion that is desirable to the fictitious ears. ... "Frost may be a painter of charming postcard scenes and a front-porch philosopher dispensing consolation and cracker-barrel wisdom, but behind these stereotypes there is in Frost's work a tragic and a terrifying poet, whose deepest note is one of inevitable human isolation" (Literature Online). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Wilfred Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est about the first World War, in which he had personally fought. It was addressed to Jessie Pope, a writer of other poems concerning the War. Specifically he wrote the poem to counteract her poem "Who's For The Game?". Owen felt that Pope did not comprehend the s...

• Word Count: 2354
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School