This poem illustrates how one's choices and actions can impact upon another. ... By comparing Midas to an Egyptian pharaoh who died very young, hinting that he too will die young and surrounded with gold, Duffy stirs a sense of sympathy from readers felt for Mrs Midas, in turn forcing us think about how cruel something as miraculous as having the 'touch of gold' can really be.  ... Mrs Midas serves not so much to readers as a lesson to be careful about what we wish for as it is an example of how one's choices impacted upon another. ... This shows that Medusa was ma...

• Word Count: 1489
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He is in awe of how courageous they were, "O the wild charge they made!... The composer's use of similes illustrates to us the unimaginable, horrific scenes of war in a way we might be able to fathom "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks". ... " Wilfred Owen emphasises on how the bodies become warped as men break under the stress of war. ... The image of the dying soldier becomes a literal nightmare, one which haunts the speaker until the end of the poem. ... As the poem itself asks rhetorically, how can anyone condone so much suffering? ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through the use of rhetorical questions complied with dramatic imagery "what passing bells for those who die as cattle?" ... Extreme visual imagery "like a devil sick on sin" results in a deep emotional reaction from the responder, drawing comparisons between the devil, who would never be sick of sin and how extreme the effects of the war have become. ... ", brings into the heart of the responder the immediacy of the war, and further communicates the barbaric acts man does to man, combined with the further use of first person "we flung him in", Owen demonstrates the immediate experiences of th...

• Word Count: 696
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Wilfred Owen uses language in Dulce Et Decorum Est to give the reader the impression that war is horrible and that dying for one's country is not all the glory and honour that it seems, and that in reality, dying in a war, no matter for what cause, can be both painful and full of suffering, while Rupert Brooke on the other hand, uses language in The Soldier, to give the reader the impression that dying in war for one's country, is very honourable, and glorious. ... Using that image, he shows the reader that England is indeed worth to die for. ... In the third and final stanza of ...

• Word Count: 1482
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The rhyming scheme also helps in normalizing the alarming incident; displaying how unattached Frost is to this event. ... This stanza is the turning point of the poem, where we switch perspectives from what has happened, to what they decide to do after the event. ... In the way the poems' mannerism is phrased, it could be said that Frost wanted to show how death is meaningless, or how it is inevitable no matter what you do in life. ... The frail buggy, is the weak, dying body with the "heavy horse" (3) demonstrating the stress, and the struggle the heart goes through to ke...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Discuss the use of imagery in at least three of the poems you have studied this semester, indicating how the poet uses imagery to propel the reader's attention to a particular understanding. ... By comparing the environment with the epiphany in the line: "And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers", the reader is able to realise that the environment is slowly dying, just like flowers once they are picked. ... When all these elements are considered, it can be seen that the beauty of the universe has a moral, that is, as we are ! more focused on materialism rather than our religious...

• Word Count: 707
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the poem, we learn he was a loyal Union member who worked in the same factory until retirement. ... The question is absurd:/Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard" (31-32). ... The closing line reflects back to the very first line of the poem; emphasizing the reality that when Aunt Jennifer dies, her tigers "will go on prancing, proud and unafraid" (10). ... The narrator recalls his tender moments with Porphyria who places his arm around her waist and murmurs how much she loves him. Taking advantage of readers' expectations, the plot takes a sho...

• Word Count: 1245
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Choose three poems and consider how far they support this view of her work. ... One of the first impressions we are given from the speaker is the feeling of unity and happiness between the two lovers, represented by "two swift-winged pigeons". ... The word "piteous" does indeed evoke our sympathy, as we, like the speaker, feel outraged at the abuse of creatures unable to defend themselves. ... This fact is accentuated by the fact that the presence of the hawk leads them simply to "yield"- the threat of danger and dying merely serves to bring them closer together. ... She uses images...

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More specifically, I will examine how Tennyson conceives of the poet's persona , his/her role in society and the ultimate purpose of the poetry . ... As we will see, Tennyson was not the only Victorian anxious about the poet's role in society and the function of poetry. ... At the end we will perhaps be able to determine with whom Tennyson shares his ideas on poetry. ... Now that we have established a theoretical framework with regard to Victorian poetics, it is time to take a closer look at how one of the greatest Victorians poets, Alfred Tennyson, conceived of his role as a poet ...

• Word Count: 2449
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Songs of Innocence and Experience are a series of poems on how we see the world at different stages of our lives. ... Each collection shows comparative images of children, babies, religion and the general world in which we live, and how we see things differently when we are first in a state of innocence and when we reach maturity. ... Some suffocated inside the chimneys they were trying to clean; others grew up stunted and deformed, dying at a young age from cancer or lung diseases. ... He then tells how they sold him to be a chimney sweep but still refuses to accept that they have done hi...

• Word Count: 1564
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The second section of the story is narrated by an omniscient narrator that presents a flash back to the past, before the first section and describes how Farquhar came to be hung in the first place. ... Deeper into the story, we learn that Farquhar was trying to prove his loyalty to the Confederate and to cure his appetite of vigilantism by burning down the bridge so the Unions can't cross; Farquhar has brought the execution upon himself. ... Farquhar's belief in his escape show how powerful the human mind is and how it shapes reality. ... "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge&quo...

• Word Count: 959
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The poem begins and seems to have the speaker professing his love to this woman, however, right at the beginning he starts by saying, "Had we but world enough, and time- This statement makes all of what he says no matter how beautiful or great the things he says or will do it is only if he had the time therefore he is taking everything back before it is given. ... The speaker refers to her virginity as a "quaint honor" making it sound that the honor in preserving her virginity is insignificant and it will be no longer anything once she dies. ... In the last two lines of the poem, which reads a...

• Word Count: 1099
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"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.... Slip into this man's shoes and wonder how it would feel to live a life such as his. ... However, in this stanza Angelou justifies how being a millionaire might not be the best situation in the world. ... From these two quotes in Angelou's interview, an individual can see Angelou's true down-to earth nature and this shows how much Angelou cares for the public for the greater good. ...

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They aim to show how Keats experiences the world around him and how he aims at constructing this world for himself. ... As readers, we can see these strengths brilliantly manifested within the poetry and that Keats has a preoccupation with the impossibility of possessing reality. ... As readers, we can appreciate and sympathise with Keats's predicament- in Keats's observable interest in the permanent release from a mundane life; he befriends the reader who can understand what it must feel like to regard death as an easeful release from care and suffering. He realises the transitory n...

• Word Count: 2837
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate