... body, and the separation of lovers from each other, is not an ending but the beginning of a new cycle. It is a metaphysical comparison between virtuous dying men whispering to their souls to leave their bodies and two lovers saying goodbye before a journey. "Let us melt and make no noise.... 'Twere profanation ... the laity of our love"ഊThe word "melt" implies a change in physical state. The bond of the lovers will dissolve quietly like the soul of a dying man separating from his body. "Noise" refers to "tear floods" and "sigh tempests" that the speaker implores his love not to release...

• Word Count: 7662
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

... in the hands of his father. Owen writes, "When lo! An Angel called him out of heaven; / Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad" (10-11). The entire story is used as a metaphor for the war. Owen suggests that the leaders create this war, and they sacrifice their youth, their sons, ... Owen used imagery and organization to convey contrast between the glory people relate to war and the reality of war. The four stanzas become progressively more specific as they go on. The first is about the soldiers in general and how exhausted and weary they are. Owen writes, "Bent double, like old beggars ...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... a laugh at their expense 'At the club.' He believed that he lived in a world of fools and that these men were simply posing as revolutionaries. The rising and the subsequent executions dramatically altered the poet's and the nation's attitude towards the rebels, and forever changed the course of Irish ... 'All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born.' Yeats was very much in two minds about the Rising. The beauty of the insurrection lay in the idealism and courage of the rebels, but the loss of human life and the fanatical instance on the need for a blood sacrifice g...

• Word Count: 2730
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... an interview. A charming story follows, explaining that the first section of the book was useful in overcoming writer's block. Her inspiration was the use of cleaning as a metaphorical statement (Alvarez Interview 6). "Dusting" tells the story of watching her mother dust pieces of furniture, erasing all of her carefully placed signatures and fingerprints, ... section, there are numerous hostile references to her mother, and "Hairwashing" proves more successful in its representation and reasoning for such emotion. "I was growing up / even as she scrubbed for dirt, / horns, anything that l...

• Word Count: 2799
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School