... filled with deer and other animals, more than can be counted. There the dreamer meets a knight dressed in black. The knight is sorrowful, and while he sits he is composing a verse (called a complaint) about his sorrow in love. The complaint details how his lady-love, whom he "loved with al my might" (line 478), has been ... after the full explanation of the lady's worth, the knight, under questioning from the narrator, blurts out that she has died. At last the dreamer understands and agrees that the Black Knight has indeed suffered a great loss. The hunting horn sounds, signaling the end...

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• Grade Level: High School

John Donne, one of the infamous Metaphysical Poets, is known to some only by random quotes such as "for whom the bell tolls" or "no man is an island", but to others he is as important a writer as Shakespeare and thus has been valued as such in many ... forms. However John Donnes popularity is not universal and although he may be well known, he is not necessarily well liked. The origin of the term "Metaphysical Poets" ... that is so blatantly obvious to himself. Donne's most proven and even his technique he exploited the most is of course imagery. Donne is eclectic and obscure with his imageri...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate