The poem begins with a simile - "bent double, like old beggars under sacks," which shows the reader immediately that the men are exhausted, walking slowly and dragging their feet along the ground, using up all their effort lifting one foot after another whilst they have no energy. ... He uses onomatopoeic words so that you get the sense of them being so frustrated and exhausted walking through the sticky, bloody, muddy, trenches. ... He uses "blood-shod" to show that the soldier's feet were caked in blood, due to them having lost their boots from being trapped in the mud - walking t...

• Word Count: 1068
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the second line he adds rain to the description- twice- walking in it as he enters the night and returns form it. ... The second stanza begins with a look "down the saddest city lane." ... The sound of other feet walking his path doesn't exist, punctuating the fact that he is on his journey alone. ...

• Word Count: 743
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• Grade Level: High School

Wordsworth begins his poem specifically stating that AFive years have past; five summer, with the length of five long winter!... He recalls his youth and feels a sense of unity when he=s walking through the woods and river. ... The poem begins with a visual scene of a silent ministry of the frost, the cry of the owl, and the sleeping infant. ...

• Word Count: 821
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• Grade Level: High School

Coleridge apparently wrote this poem while temporarily confined under a Lime tree as a result of an accident, and while his friends were out walking in the surrounding area. ... The poem begins on a depressing note, "Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, this lime-tree bower my prison!... He even goes so far as to claim that traveling in one's imagination is better than actually walking in the following quote. ...

• Word Count: 1321
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the beginning of the poem, the author begins in a melancholic mood. Instead of using "walk", the author said he was "wandering", which means walking around unintentionally. ... The walking tour of Europe not only offered him the inspiration to write "Daffodils" but also shaped his poetry and political sensibility helped him perceive that beyond the wealth, the materialism, there was nature. ...

• Word Count: 969
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Blake achieves these images and this emotion with the line: "The children walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green." ... An example of this is found in the first stanza which is a beautiful description of the opening scene: "As market-days are wearing late An' folk begin to tak the gate." ... The farmer seems to regret what has happened and then upon reflection he begins to admire the mouse for his communion with the earth especially when he compares it with man's relationship with nature: "An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell-". ...

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

The poem begins with what appears to be a couple walking along during a nice summer day, and there they saw the object that was the dead animal that was laying belly up on the side of the road with its legs spread like a prostitute. ... The entire poem is littered with references to nature and it begins by talking about a bead of water that dissipates and dies into a stream, bringing about a sort of pain as the bead of water is changed into the whole of the stream. ...

• Word Count: 1751
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

It is here that the tension that images a roller coaster begins to form. ... He is walking upon eggshells around his wife, smothering his own grief and being forces to wade in all of it rather than move on. ...

• Word Count: 1183
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• Grade Level: High School

Frost begins this poem by saying: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall". ... In any case, there is something about "walking the line" and building it, mending it, balancing each stone with equal parts skill and spell that made Frost write this, kind of, mysterious poem. ...

• Word Count: 1699
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The poetry of Robert Frost is often tinged with sadness; a poet with a deep appreciation for the natural scene, yet duly aware of the harsh realties of life. This line from "Acquainted with the Night" highlights Frost's isolation and his sense of alienation – sentiments which are expressed through...

• Word Count: 2104
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42