... of growing old more impacting. Sharon Olds uses them in the way that she compares her daughter's youth to her lack of youth. The poem chronologically goes through the process of the mother realizing and understanding that while she loses her youth, her daughter gains it. The first image she ... own fertility to her daughter's, and then uses a metaphor to describe how her daughter's body is ready to literally burst into womanhood. Olds concludes this poem with the mother's realization that her daughter is replacing her and that this is just another one of nature's occurrences. In Shakesp...

• Word Count: 1171
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... illustrate their views of certain topics. Poems have a suggestive power due to the different literary techniques that poets tend to use. Marge Piercy had a specific idea in mind when she wrote the poem entitled, "What's That Smell in the Kitchen?" The purpose Marge Piercy had for writing this poem was to express her opinion about feminist rights. Marge Piercy used metaphors and symbolism ... detest the idea of being oppressed and are trying to escape it. Men and women need and want to perform self fulfilling work. The poem "What's that Smell in the Kitchen?" demonstrates this idea. Pier...

• Word Count: 571
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... by creating the since of individualism and showing the importance of wrong and right ideals. The person in the poem seemed to be very nervous and uncertain about a choice in his or her life. The poem symbolizes the right path taken in life, and personal choices, but also is a metaphor for the choices ... a stopping point in life which could be death. The person seems to mourn for something in his life that produces one time in a year. The poem also gives different types of alliteration, similes, and metaphors, which Robert Frost also uses in his other poems as well. The usage of death an...

• Word Count: 437
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... has seen and suggests to his audience that, they too would likely have the same terrifying dreams if they had seen what he had seen. With all the literary devices used, simile, metaphor, and tone, the horror of war is conveyed in a way that reaches to the audience on a deep level and shows none of ... the nostalgia and nationalism that many war stories and poems utilize. The speaker of the poem, serves as the expert on war, as a veteran of it. But, unlike poems that may convey the bravery and courage of battle, this soldier and ... the negative and pervasive state of battle. He brings ...

• Word Count: 633
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School