Wagoner's Tumbleweed: An Analysis
.... which it is difficult to escape. So the tumbleweed and the poet are
both thrust against the barbed wire of life. This is another metaphor for
the poet's difficult life. The poet and the tumbleweed are stuck in a
painful, difficult situation. They are prisoners of their surroundings,
helpless. “Like a riddled prisoner.” The words riddled prisoner are used to
give us a powerful, painful, picture of the lost and hopeless feeling of
the poet. He feels great pain at his situation, feels that there is no wa .....
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Analysis Of WH Auden's Poem: Eternal Love
.... that is powerless before time. To say
that " vaguely life leaks away," the author is possibly attempting to covey
that every moment lost cannot be retrieved, that every second that goes by
is a second closer to the death of the body and to the death of love. The
images of the frozen, cracked landscapes, and the crack in the teacup are
examples of lost, passed time. The verdant valleys shall always be
sheathed in snow, they cannot resist; and the teacup, once cracked, cannot
be mended. All that is left .....
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Lawrence's "Snake": An Analysis
.... his own manliness. This is stated in the poem when it says, "Was
it cowardice, that I dared not kill it?" This line from the poem says that
the speaker is worried that he will not be called a man because he did not
kill the snake. The speaker does not want to feel less than a man because
he did not kill the snake, like all men are supposed to do.
The third time he expresses this theme is when the speaker tries to
hit the snake with a log. This is stated in the poem when it says, "I
picked up a clums .....
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Shapiro's "Auto Wreck": Interpretation
.... to a luscious green jungle of grass. Yet symbolically
this jungle is the twisted, black, and crisp auto wreck. This depiction of
the auto wreck is extravag ant and almost unreal. Using metaphors, Shapiro
portrays the fantasy-like auto wreck in which wildness is indispensable.
In addition to Shapiro's use of metaphorical phrases, he emphasizes
the lack of comprehension of the on-lookers as a result of death's
inconsistency with logic. Shapiro directly tells the reader, "We are
deranged." The .....
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Analysis Of The Poem: The Fly
.... The lines that follow describe a creature
that is lowly and parasitic, yet well suited to the world it lives in and
feeds off of.
The second stanza depicts the fly flying as a minute messenger of filth
and disease. It is described landing on the heap of dung, then
contaminating all that is clean with its filth and decay. Its hungry
burrowing and laying of maggots in a dead body is described, as is its
perpetual shyness from its adversary, man.
In the third section, the fly's close interactio .....
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"Gunpowder Plot" By Vernon Scannell
.... bring back evil, unpleasant memories of war with people
dying. Later in the poem we learn that the man's brother had dies in the
war as the line reads : "I hear a corpse's sons -- 'Who's scared of
bangers!' 'Uncle, John's afraid!'
In the story the author uses a lot of comparisons, the first one we
come across is between fireworks and "Curious cardboard buds" where he
describes them as flowers that have yet to blossom and show their beauty.
Again later in the same verse he describes the .....
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"The Princess, The Knight, And The Dragon" By Malarkey - Poetry Analysis
.... by the characters of the maid and
the knight. Where the princess follows her code of noble action and is
punished, the knight and maid undertake unchivalrous actions and are
rewarded. Both the maid and knight follow the natural instinct that is
ignored by Miranda. Faced with the same threat the maid and the knight
both react in a logical manner. They see that there is little chance of
being in any way triumphant over Faggon, and violate the code of nobility
for something that is more important to them, .....
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Poem: The Fate Of Hamlet
.... as a man of youth
Betrayed by kinship and rebuked,
Resentment toward his mother the queen,
Stemmed from him trying to be redeemed.
Many tiring sleepless nights,
Caused Hamlet much pain and fright.
When ghost revealed truths of his father’s death,
Hamlet vowed to take Claudius’s last breath.
In the turmoil of all this.
His true affection for Ophelia found no bliss.
He could never share his thoughts,
Revenge made him overwrought.
All this pain caused him to plot,
He made the plan t .....
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I've Learned
.... it, there are always two sides.
I've learned -
That it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.
I've learned -
That it's a lot easier to react than it is to think.
I've learned -
That you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be
the last time you see them.
I've learned -
That you can keep going long after you think you can't.
I've learned -
That we are responsible for what we do, no .....
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Birches: Poetry Review
.... to remember “some boy too far from town to play baseball, /Whose only play was what he found himself” (25-26). The man is thinking about his own childhood where he was secluded but still content because he was creating his own happiness.
Soon into his pleasant fantasy, reality takes over. What has he accomplished or become? Why does he not have the same feelings he once had? Because “They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load” of his harsh life (14). His life of hard ships has erased .....
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I Knew A Woman: An Analysis
.... of the person). The placement of these words is strategic, emphasizing the natural sound and feel to the poem as well as the natural softness to her disposition. In the third stanza, this is most obvious: "She played it quick, she played it light and loose; / My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees; / Her several parts could keep a pure repose, / Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose / (She moved in circles, and those circles moved)." Here, there are almost a dozen leading or strong trailing "s" .....
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Barbie Doll: An Analysis
.... character's downfall. With one comment from a classmate, all her beauty, intelligence and all that she believed to be slowly faded under the standards of society.
In the second paragraph, her true identity & characteristics are further described in more detail. She had everything a "normal" happy girl could have; yet she didn't meet the norms of society. She was not what society expected a girl to look like so she slowly became a victim of society's expectations. As is mentioned in the second to last l .....
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Poems Of William Wordsworth And Samuel Coleridge
.... he would not have written, "I have pleased a greater number than I ventured to hope I should please" (141) if he was only concentrating on the self. Wordsworth was concerned for all responses from all mankind and not only his personal response. He emphasized and focused on the common man in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads by writing in a common language that the ordinary man can easily understand and appreciate. There are no phrases or figures of speech in his poems that would not be found in conversa .....
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Exploring The Theme Of Premature Death In Three Poems
.... used this title ironically. He anticipated the reader’s expectations, and took the poem in a different direction. The character in the story is certainly not having a “normal” spring break at all, as he is spending it grief-stricken over the death of his four-year old brother. If one examines this title on an interpretive level, the word “break” takes on a new meaning, as it could refer to the death of the child as breaking the heart or spirit of the family and the speaker.
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Nature Imagery In Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems"
.... emergencies of our lives, the fabricated wants and needs we have had urged on us, have accepted as our own. It's not a philosophical or psychological blueprint; it's an instrument for embodied experience. But we seek that experience, or recognize it when it is offered to us, because it reminds us in some way of our need. After that rearousal of desire, the task of acting on that truth, or making love, or meeting other needs, is ours. (Smith 590)
Thus, Rich highlights poetry's ability to connect w .....
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