... shadows on the floor, and I eagerly wished it to be the next day (8-9). Vainly, I tried to borrow happiness from my books in order to quell my own sadness- sorrow for the lost Lenore, the rare and radiant maiden named by angels, never again to be mentioned here on ... 39-40). He perched and sat there, and nothing else (42). Then this black bird, deceiving my sad state into smiling, by the serious and firm manners of the air it wore, I said, "Although your top is cropped like a monk's taking a vow of humility, you sure aren't a coward. Ghastly, grim and ancient raven wandering away from h...

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• Grade Level: High School

... in sorwe.   (16-21) The poet never adequately explains the nature of the "sorwe" which he mentions as an afterthought here. "Sorwe" seems an unlikely symptom of insomnia, but it associates the condition of the poet with that of the knight. The poet's description of the knight's condition closely resembles that of his own insomnia: Hit was gret wonder that Nature   Myght suffre any creature   ... lady, he nevertheless can finally re-enter court life. Similarly, the very last activity which engages the poet before he falls asleep involves the mental construction of an ideal bedchamber...

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• Grade Level: High School

... he simply indulges his own personal view of the broken images of a modern world. Critics disagree whether poems like Prufrock or The Waste Land are socially responsible pictures of the modern world or essentially private and personal pieces of self-expression. LANGUAGE NOTE Modernist Poetic Syntax One of the aims of Modernist poets was to articulate a representation of the world and of a way of seeing which expressed ... to explore a contrary position THIRTIES POETS In the 1930s, political commitment became a more noticeable part of creative writing, especially in the poetry of Auden. On...

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... can't be a writer, I"ll be a hobo" (Hacker 34). So in 1897, Sandburg joined the corps of 60,00 hoboes who found the American railroads "an exhilarating if illicit free ride from one corner of the United States to another (Niven). His hobo days came to a quick end when he had been arrested for ... the ashes were sprinkled under a granite boulder behind the three-room cottage in Galesburg (Hacker 110). Lyndon Johnson summarized the legacy of Carl Sandburg stating: "Carl Sandburg was more than a voice of America, more that the poet of its strength and Genius. He was America. We knew and che...

• Word Count: 2533
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School