This reanimated corpse he should send to Alcyone to speak to her and show her he has drowned. ... With "To lytel while oure blysse lasteth" [too little while our bliss lasts] (line 211), he leaves her, echoing a theme of this and other poems in Chaucer's love-poetry oeuvre. ... This comedic turn shows the difference between the noble, allegorical characters in the story (Alcyone, Juno, Seys) and the realistic, human characters of the poet's world. ... Here Chaucer shows off his knowledge of classical literature, mentioning two major instances of dream-visions among the ancients. ......

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• Grade Level: High School

These three poems that share this common theme are "After a Journey,"" "The Haunter,"" and "Your Last Drive."" "After a Journey- is about a love that is lost, but is still with him, and "The Haunter- is for the loss of a close friend, and "Your Last Drive- is about a lost love, and not knowing how to be with that person again. ... Yes: I have re-entered your olden haunts at last; Through the years, through the dead scenes I have tracked you; What have you found to say of our past " Scanned across the dark space wherein I have lacked you? ... - This line is used in the poem in t...

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• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: High School

As a group, the Odes show the reader a centralised experience. ... They aim to show how Keats experiences the world around him and how he aims at constructing this world for himself. These two are polar opposites and show to great extent the profound and deep intensity with which Keats constructs his poetry. ... As a result, the reader alongside the poet is drawn back to the realities of everyday life, picturing the frailty and weakness of man's estate with far more conviction and an overriding sense of grief. ... In Ode to a Nightingale the illusive object which is inherently desired, is...

• Word Count: 2837
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thomas's use of the life cycle and the virtues of life mainly show the affluence of exuberance in his poems. ... The poem shows the uniqueness of life and the power that is possess, "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees". ... From this we realise that the poem is in actual fact apart of a larger picture. ... "The force that through the green fuse", describes the corruption that we have inflicted on nature and lastly "Light breaks where no sun shines" the last of the poems in the larger scale cycle. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Whitman's style of free verse develops in complex and expansive lines and stanzas, which are nevertheless visually descriptive, painting to the readers a clear picture of what he wants them to see through a direct and impacting tone. ... The poem's nectar is nothing but the poet's intimacy expressed in her own work; for this reason the word 'me' has replaced 'rose' in the last line. 2.2. ... The poet knows a literal definition, that probably also the child knows, but admitting his ignorance he shows his further awareness of grass's deeper meanings. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and assoc...

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