Into this dreary setting, the poet's heart can be heard. ... Seeking approval, Poe began to construct tales and stories, which succeeded in gaining the public's eye and favor (Poe 7). ... However, the echoing darkness of those dreams must find specificity in the dark heart of the reader, and the poet will not fulfill that unholy task. ... -/On this home by Horror haunted-tell me truly, I implore-/Is there-is there balm in Gilead?-tell me-tell me, I implore!'...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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". It is here that the speaker tells us that he is extremely fond of the idea of dying here and jong nature: "Now more than ever seems it rich to die". ... In the seventh stanza we are presented with the powerful image of the Biblical tale of the Israelite Ruth caught in Egypt longing for her home. ... I believe the speaker asks this question due t...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Within these two poems he is able to bring people closer to the heart of primitive human nature in his race than anyone ever before (Laryea 109). ... I think Dunbar wrote this poem to tell others and to be an example to others of a slave being trapped into doing work just because of his race. The most famous line "I know what the caged bird feels", tells us what the poem is basically about, that Dunbar knows how it feels to be imprisoned and not be able to so as you please. ... The image of Dunbar was defaced because they censured him for tarnishing the symbol and meaning of the plantation ...

• Word Count: 1623
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Ode to a Grecian Urn THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? ... For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. ... And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and...

• Word Count: 1446
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"After having returned from exotic travels, he became a figure of force and he followed his success with a series of "Eastern" tales that added to his aura: one of them, The Corsair 1814, written in ten days, sold ten thousand copies on the day of publication"(The Penguin Group, 2). ... She Walks In Beauty 1 She walks in beauty , like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light 5 Which heaven to gaudy day denies. 2 One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the namel...

• Word Count: 1724
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

His reaction to this encounter is transparent in the form Dickinson chooses to tell the persona's story. ... His sentiment towards "my snake" is possessive in his immediate change in heart. ... Lawrence created, he would not of thrown the stick at the snake's tale. ...

• Word Count: 1710
• Approx Pages: 7

Pope tells us that with the aid of certain devices he will explore this theme, and it is at this point that we become acquainted with the "machinery" of the poem. This "machinery", he explains is the part which will be played by the supernatural elements in the tale. ... Satire is an art, whilst other genres may be purely lyrical, romantic, from the heart, the satirist is cunning, witty, and as P.K. ...

• Word Count: 2068
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate