... formless and colorless even the entire poem. The concluding lines of part one make crucial references to Dante's "Divine Comedy": Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As hollow men According to Dante there are a variety of ... for themselves." The second segment reverts to a singular speaker instead of a collective group. The poet perpetually refers to images like kingdom, death's dream, and eyes as a way to understand death and time without end. The poet cannot bear to face the ones who have been abl...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the lights being the stars. Carew writes: Ask me no more where those stars light That downwards fall in dead of night; For in your eyes they sit, and there, Fixed become as in their sphere. (lines 13-16) Similar to how the golden atoms were infused with the woman's ... hair when the light of day faded, Carew portrays the woman's eyes as being the spheres that contain the stars' light. Her eyes, though, don't contain the light of just any stars, but rather that of shooting stars (as implied by " ... downwards fall" in line 14). This distinction is important because by containing the shoo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of his poems beside the plate of Vachel Lindsey who liked Hughes" poetry and helped him publicize his writings. (Rummel 44) At that point Hughes established himself as a bright young star of the "New Negro Renaissance." (Haskins 55) As a poet, Hughes was the first person to combine the traditional poetry with black artistic forms, especially blues and jazz. As a leader in ... role model for the Harlem community. His works describe problems related within our society that still have yet to be resolved. (The Best Of Simple 3) Hughes poems opened the reader's eyes to the many disadvantages...

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• Grade Level: High School

... poignant visual objects that Owen describes very strikingly. These visual aids help the reader look at the poem in a far more intimate, compassionate way. The "thick green light", the "white eyes", and the "haunting flares", are just some of the key words that Owen uses to enable him to create these powerful images and allow the reader to experience a lot more ... the poem, Futility, with more positive religious imagery being employed ("fatuous sunbeams"). The personification ("kind, old sun"), sympathetic background ("the snow"), and repetition of light imagery that Owen utilises ("col...

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... should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love would grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest. An age at least to every part, And the last age should show ... wonder what if ' Sea-Fever - John Masefield - 1878-1967 I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey m...

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• Grade Level: High School

... being "together" and "forever" in lines 7 and 10). Another literary device in On My First Son is words. The powerful words in this poem almost bring tears to the readers eyes. Ben Jonson uses such compelling adjectives to describe each subject. If he would not have used them as he did, the poem would not have as strong of an impact ... the words "my sin", "lent to me", "just day", "lose all father", "flesh's rage" and "best piece of poetry". In Unending Love the imagery lies in "necklace of songs", "pole-star", "darkness of time", and "tears of farewell". Most of the imagery in both poe...

• Word Count: 1296
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School