... as indecisive and precarious in the line's ephemeral bathos. The term could further underscore a crucial theme of the poem, as fire, in the context of love, is generally associated with passion. The speaker could also be commenting on the vivid shades of color that autumn bestows upon the ... also important to acknowledge Duffy's skilful use of asyndeton in the opening stanza, which was perhaps facilitated to signify a written prose. In the context of love, the author could possibly assert that love is more authentic and more surreal when experienced first-hand, and poetry based on love ...

• Word Count: 1990
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to rally against. It begins with the use of a second person active sentence describing the character of Plath: 'Your worship needed a god/Where it lacked one, it found one./Ordinary jocks became gods/Deified by your infatuation.' In this opening, Hughes makes use of the religious diction of Plath's worship to suggest an active seeking out of powerful masculine figures ... distinguishing ability necessary to accurately account for the nuance of guilt. Finally, with reference to the power of Plath's poetry to subvert actuality, Hughes describes her works, in their familiar context, a...

• Word Count: 2183
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... reader to see for the first time things he or she has been glimpsed - and maybe even taken for granted - during a lifetime in a twisted and mixed language to revive the ordinary. Analaysis This informal poem is written in free verse or syllabic meter. There is no regard to stress or traditional use of rhyme. Raine uses several riddles in this poem ... room" as a metonym for the bathroom, describing it in this way alters how we perceive what goes on within, symbolically turning the bathroom into somewhere private and painful. In this context our sanitation is seen as solitary confinement...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... reader to see for the first time things he or she has been glimpsed - and maybe even taken for granted - during a lifetime in a twisted and mixed language to revive the ordinary. Analaysis This informal poem is written in free verse or syllabic meter. There is no regard to stress or traditional use of rhyme. Raine uses several riddles in this poem ... room" as a metonym for the bathroom, describing it in this way alters how we perceive what goes on within, symbolically turning the bathroom into somewhere private and painful. In this context our sanitation is seen as solitary confinement...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School