... the "leveled scene" and "an isle of trees" gives evidence to the speaker's mood of pessimism and loneliness as the speaker implies he must be "as he had been--alone" (Potter; 4-5, 8). Potter writes that Frost "was often riddled with doubts about O his role in relation to his family and friends, and even his poetic powers ... ; (Potter 47). We get the sense that the speaker (Frost) is hinting that in his life he feels alone and often yearns for the companionship of others. In the second transition " ... ...

• Word Count: 600
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... His Coy Mistress", the poem begins with the speaker and his "mistress" conversing. He begins the poem with, "Had we but world enough, and time," (Marvell, line 1) and advances into a synopsis of what his vigorous love for her would drive him to do if they were both immortal. He supports this notion in the following lines by discussing it in terms ... ...

• Word Count: 1015
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Power of Love Edmund Spenser reached out to audiences through his poetry. His works, which reflected the idea of individualism, incorporated his own personal emotions, values, and experiences. Amoretti, whose title means little love poems, is composed of eighty-eight sonnets. The Amoretti focuses on the charms and virtues of a lover and a man's frustrated feelings to display the courtship of him and his second wife Elizabeth. Epithalamion, which ends the Amoretti, sums up their love for one another by commemorating their marriage. Spenser wrote these poetic sequences to show that the power of ...

• Word Count: 386
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... of poetry.... It is an interdependence of the imagination and reality as equals" (Stevens 5). Through this poem Stevens is allowing the reader to set free their imagination of the legendary Phoenix which exists "on the edge of space," while reminding us that the bird is merely singing, its feathers merely shine. Despite its implied importance, Stevens" golden bird is "Of Mere ... ...

• Word Count: 826
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... devours her own children in the sense that they all return to the dust and ashes of which they were made; this seems a regeneration process and line 4 talks about the phoenix which was a bird of legend that lived 500 years , then died in flames, to rise again from ashes- and a syntactic parallelism shows this idea of immortality more easily. In line ... ...

• Word Count: 790
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School