William Blake's poems The Divine Image and Nurse's Song both contain elements of innocence and experience. These two characteristics are easiest to see in the poems" human references. Using a human relationship between poem and reader, Blake is effective in portraying innocence and experience. ... Blake then responds to the first three stanzas by taking an experienced stance in the final two stanzas, summarily in lines nineteen and twenty, where Blake states, "Where Mercy, Love, & Pity dwell, There God is dwelling too." ... In both poems, readers sense people adapting to their e...

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Summary "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" is a poem with seven ten stanzas. ... This poem is often refered to as a dramatic poem - a monologue or dialogue written in the voice of a character assumed by the poet. ... Purpose I think that Raine wrote this poem to give man a different perspective on our reality. ... Analaysis This informal poem is written in free verse or syllabic meter. ... So far the poem is not displaying any definite metre. ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Summary "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" is a poem with seven ten stanzas. ... This poem is often refered to as a dramatic poem - a monologue or dialogue written in the voice of a character assumed by the poet. ... Purpose I think that Raine wrote this poem to give man a different perspective on our reality. ... Analaysis This informal poem is written in free verse or syllabic meter. ... So far the poem is not displaying any definite metre. ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"Acquainted with the Night" is designated as a sonnet because it is a fourteen-line poem. ... The softest tone in the poem is when he, "stood still and stopped the sound of feet." ... Shakespeare's form develops a sequence of metaphors, or ideas in each quatrain and the couplet offers a summary of these ideas. ... Frost begins the poem with an interesting relation, an "acquaintance" with the night. ... In the poem, the narrator has come face to face with death, in which night symbolizes death. ...

• Word Count: 1091
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• Grade Level: High School

Poetry Explication of Robert Frost's "Birches" Summary • This poem is set in a rural natural environment which encourages the speaker to look inward. • The poem relies on a metaphor in which the journey through life is compared to the journey down the roads. • The speaker of the poem must choose one path instead or the other. ... Title • The title "The Road Not Taken," sets the scene and tone of the poem • The speaker is sounds as if he is describing a road that is not often traveled. ... Stanza 4 • The final stanza highlights the theme of ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The poem 'Here' follows a car journey through different types of landscapes. ... The poem is split up into four stanzas, each one representing a different type of landscape. ... The word 'swerving' is used to introduce the poem and is repeated in the second line. ... From this point there is a sense of change and ageing in the poem. ... The poem is sep...

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