... with the unfriendly vision of the city's "midnight streets" (13). As opposed to the peaceful ending in the first companion poem, Blake uses a quite disturbing closing and according to the footnotes a frequently argued closing. Instead of a peaceful, caring mother bird, we are presented with a "youthful Harlot" for a mother figure (14). Her curse can be debated as a variety of shortcomings. For instance ... ...
... . The final line of the first stanza "A terrible beauty is born" foreshadows the terrible events to come. The second matter seems to address matters closer to the writer's heart. The footnotes refer to other poems and Pegasus, sometimes a used for poetic inspiration. There is also a reference to a Major who married the woman Yeats was in love with. Major MacBride's demise is ... ...
... "Robert Frost was quoted as saying that "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" contained all he ever knew and that he would like to print it with "Forty pages of footnotes" (Rosenberry 526). In Frost's poem the use of woods can be argued to have a much deeper meaning than the literal sense. Greiner points out that "the majority of Frost's symbolic ... ...
