In what way in Tennyson's imagery of nature in "In Memoriam" distinctive from the Romantic Presentation of Nature as God-Nature? ... The poem consists of many smaller poems, written in iambic tetrameter with an ABBA rhyme scheme. ... In the first four lines of the preface, there are three characters: the Son of God, Love and human being. The poet refers to God like full of immortal love and "we", human being, have faith, although we have not proofs of the existence of God. But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but fa...

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

He had finally realized that one could only find God in his purest form in his own most perfect creation "Nature". Harold Bloom states "The visible body of Nature is more then a outer testimony of the Spirit of God to him; it is our only way to God" (Modern p.4). ... Wordsworth realized that his fellow man has strayed from God by getting caught up in all the material things in which our society provides us and this deeply saddened him. ... He realizes that what was once thought his playground is actually the playground of God. ... In the second paragraph along with the predominant "s" sound ...

• Word Count: 2680
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

England can't really do these things, so this is a case of personification (the attribution of human qualities to non-human things). ... The "eternal mind" refers to God's mind (eternal here means that it has never been created and will never die). God, of course, lives in heaven (just in case you were wondering), which is described as being just like England. ... And that means a few things as far as form and meter are concerned. ... Small substitutions like this are fairly common in poetry, so just be on the lookout for any metrical oddities. ...

• Word Count: 3268
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

The works of American poet Robert Frost tell of simple things- swinging on a birch tree, stopping by woods on a snowy evening, and the death of a hired man. Behind his work is a deep feeling for life's fundamentals-love, loyalty, and awareness of nature and of God. ... In 1900, his grandfather gave him a small farm near Derry, NH. ... Robert Frost's poetry touched our nation, here are some things people said about him: Robert Frost was a philosophical poet, which meant in his case that to a profound and delicate heart was joined an intellect which never ceased to search for the ul...

• Word Count: 3004
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. ...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42

Allen Ginsberg's Motivation for writing Howl Richard Eberhart, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet of 1966, remarks, "Ginsberg's Howl ushered in a new generation." Many 20th century poets have attested to the freeing effect that Ginsberg's poetry had upon them in the late fifties. But to allege th...

• Word Count: 4095
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School