It is an accessible idea that Donne uses death to compare against a broken heart. ... "And now, as broken glass show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more" (29-32), the with that the speaker concludes the poem. Like broken glass a broken heart shows a bunch of images, there is something left of it. ... "The Broken Heart" allows love to become superior and the heart to become the victim. ... The poem expresses how a broken heart impacts one and the purpose of it, however has an ending with a tragic twist in w...

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• Grade Level: High School

This poem tells us of a break-up between two lovers. The title for this poem does not give us much, but it basically gives us what we will expect the poem to read. "When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken hearted, To server for thy years" - Obviously a long term relationship has just ended. ... "Thy vows are all broken" - This could be suggesting that it could be a break up of a marriage. ... This poem is quite sad and you can't help but feel sympathetic. ...

• Word Count: 431
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• Grade Level: High School

as a representative poem for this discussion. ?... The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres? ... Here, Hardy has taken the romantic and soothing instrument of the lyre and described it as broken. ... At once a voice arose among The black twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. ... Throughout the poem the speaker has introduced the ideas of positive opposites to the following negatives: weakening eyes can strengt...

• Word Count: 1579
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• Grade Level: High School

It indicates a term being broken in half, a time of relaxation and enjoying the time of school. ... It shows that this man is big and still he is heart by the occasion. ... The silence in the poem is broken again in the second line when whispers start to happen. ... It is a very dramatic way to end the poem. ... Time is linear in the poem. ...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Part B: Poem Analysis – The Draft Horse Emma Tan Robert Frost, author of The Draft Horse wrote this poem in the early to mid-1920's. ... The narrative flow of the poem is continuous until the moment the horse is "stabbed dead" (8). ... However, in comparing the second stanza to the third, the third one is broken into two sentences. ... The onomatopoeic effect with a "crack of a broken shaft" (10) creates an aural visualization of the cracking noise we would've heard when a knife is plunged into the horse. ... The frail buggy, is the weak...

• Word Count: 943
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She wrote her poems while rearing eight children, functioning as a hostess, being a good wife, and performing other domestic duties. ... Bradstreet is very critical about her works and it shows in her poems. ... In the third stanza, Bradstreet openly criticizes her work, "My foolish, broken, blemished Muse so sings; / All this to mend, alas, no art is able, / "Cause nature made it so irreparable" (16-18). ... Bradstreet's ability to be too hard on her writings only led to her writing fantastic poems. ... As a very talented writer, she was sure to put her heart and soul into each poem ...

• Word Count: 800
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• Grade Level: High School

Owen's realistic descriptions form the foundation of the poem. ... Due to the ellipses, the poem is broken up into sections and the reader is able to get an account of the soldier's life before and after the war. ... Women are perceived as very negative in the poem. ... Poets have aweight in their words that find a way to pull at our heart strings. ... Poets know this and their poems commonly reflect it. ...

• Word Count: 1643
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• Grade Level: High School

The following two poems strike like lightning; readers experience extraordinary power as they encounter each poem. ... McCarriston's poems are a chronology of her pain from childhood to adolescence to adult. ... The entire poem has eight stanza and four lines in each. ... McCarriston often uses castles (large, fortified, imposing buildings) in her poems. ... At the end of the poem the author figuratively reveals how insignificant the girl/women feels. ...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School