The structure of this poem is likely using the narrative method, naturally and smoothly pictured a story of his journey for readers. ... And the cold is a literary synesthesia word that pictured the color of sunset glow at that time. ... Comparing this to the natural that continues naturally the cruel of the facts was showed in here transparently. ... At the last couplet, Du Fu alluding to his own decline, his age and health problems. ... The cap-pins was a symbolization of bureaucratic officials in ancient China, they wore caps on their heads to show respects to their states and king. ...

• Word Count: 1790
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

In the first stanza, it has an indication of time, which starts to slowly bring a picture into our heads. ... (line 3) This shows the time. ... In the last two lines it starts to show that it was someone close who has died otherwise they would not be taking it so badly. ... The poet is trying to create a picture in your mind of the body being innocent and just lying there helplessly. ... In the last line of the poem it is on its own like a stanza, but it is a short but powerful line: "A four foot box, a foot for every year." ...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The violence of the girl in the picture being disfigured also represents the illusion being destroyed. The readers know that the picture originally presented was the standard ideal and the vandalism shows what Prestatyn would be realistically. ... Larkin shows the illusion of advertisement by writing Of how life should be'. ... In this last line Larkin purposely slows it down for emphasis. ... This shows how the songs have become unimportant to her in a way. ...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Blake then challenges the reader to consider who created the "tyger" in the last line of the fifth stanza: "Did He who made the lamb make thee?" ... Both poems show this coexistence. ... Burns shows compassion for the difficult lives led by farmers. ...

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

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. ... It is the last few lines of the forth stanza that Owen points out that war is not all glory and honor. ... Although Owen has the skill of painting a gruesome picture of the front lines, he can also paint the picture of the after effects of the war. ... It has only been a year and his life has changed so much that he is no longer the same person; "He's lost his colour vary far from here,/Poured it down shell-holes till th...

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

The following five poems show the power that childhood has both by affecting ourselves and others, because sometimes all we need is to look at life through a child's eyes one last time to remember what it was like. ... The unicorn is described in full detail including their gold horns which show the beauty of being young. ... The reader can picture these two situations, a child examining an ordinary object as if it is suddenly extraordinary. ... The last poem is called "The Key of the Kingdom" and is by Ed Reed. ... All of these poems show an outlook on youth as something that should not...

• Word Count: 1351
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The poem shows Owen's individualism through his subversion of popular' imagery (that of the Romantics) to reveal the truth about war. ... Owen shows in his poem how instead of using science in order to work for nature, man has both intensified an attack on his fellow man and corrupted the natural world ( Breen 181). ... In this unique way Owen not only conveys Mankind's corruption of nature, but shows how such corruption leads to the destruction of Mankind, exemplified in the form of the cringing soldiers hiding in the salient. ... However, the ironic ambiguity of last...

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

The best depiction of this theme in "Provide, Provide" also comes in the last stanza: "Better to go down dignified / With boughten friendship at your side / Than none at all. ... By emphasizing the rhyme for these lines, Robinson shows the redundancy of the towns-people in their admiration for Richard Cory. ... In "Richard Cory," Robinson shows how sad it is when others only see you for your outward appearance. ... I picture the witches in Macbeth dancing around the cauldron as they chant "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble" (Act IV scene I). ... This shows selfishness for those that want to d...

• Word Count: 1644
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Plath's full blown admittance of this thought shows up in line seven when she says "I'm a means" as if this is her only purpose (Plath 775). ... Picturing it exactly as what Plath says makes it seem kind of humorous, but once we imagine a woman trying to walk around that way we understand that Plath's in a problematic position - this conveys her ambiguity toward her pregnant state. ... The last line, "Boarded the train there's no getting off," is a type of enjambment or continuation of the previous line where we see the speaker overindulges and most like...

• Word Count: 1396
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. ... But "time's wingëd chariot- paints a different picture. ... It is remarkable that so few words can paint such a vivid picture. ...

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

The metaphor itself is simple in definition: "A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar". ... The twelfth line and last of the stanza goes, "A far sea moves in my ear.... The very first line with the gold watch metaphor show the mother's removal of herself from the child. ... The last stanza does its best to paint a welcoming picture of the mother and her child. ...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In lines such as, "No more may gulls cry" (20) and a "break in the sun till the sun breaks down / And death shall have no dominion," (26-27) Thomas shows the reader that even if the sun never shines again death will not rule. ... 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). ... The turning point in the poem comes when the child realizes his youth will not last forever: "And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows / In all his tuneful tur...

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

Here the poet makes use of poetic language that shows the speaker's love for his beloved: he finds him beautiful, because of his guilt and mortality, and not in spite of it. ... He says that "certainty" and "fidelity" (faithfulness), just like innocent beauty, do not last forever. ... By using this imagery the poet not only forms an imaginary picture of death and time, but the abstract speech also helps makes the poem more realistic. ... He asks the wind to "blow softly round [his beloved's] dreaming head"; that each day will show him a kind welcome and...

• Word Count: 1813
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• 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. ... The sililance on the 's' sound with "Say save his soul and pray", reinforces the spitting bitterness he feels and his refusal to believe in a God that takes life is reflected in the very last line of the poem. ... However, the "river God" appears to show weakness and his insecurities are emphasized by the progressive use of enjambment as the structure of the poem becomes more disjointed, with the r...

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

Robinson shows merely how Cory appears to the outside world. This is actually the sole driving force of Cory: he wants to be society's picture of the perfect man. ... This explains the positive imagery juxtaposed to the telling of his death contained in the last two verses on the poem "And Richard Cory, one calm summer night/ Went home and put a bullet through his head."" ... The speaker utilizes the words "imperially," "crown" and "king" to show that Cory is looked upon highly as far above the common folk, which intensifies his state of aloneness and feelings of loneliness, since nob...

• Word Count: 1536
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In his poems, McKay shows his concern for the treatment of African Americans during the 1920's. ... The rest of the poem follows the same structure until the last two lines and these two lines follow the fundemental trait of Engligh sonnets, rhyme. ... Thw whole realm of the poem is established in the first four lines, taking the whole picture into consideration. ...

• Word Count: 1662
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In his poems, McKay shows his concern for the treatment of African Americans during the 1920's. ... The rest of the poem follows the same structure until the last two lines and these two lines follow the fundemental trait of Engligh sonnets, rhyme. ... Thw whole realm of the poem is established in the first four lines, taking the whole picture into consideration. ...

• Word Count: 1634
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School