... takes us on is exquisite in itself, without even thinking of her message. Line one starts off the piece with a well written metaphor, "Love set you going like a fat gold watch." (Plath). Although the reader does not know it yet, Plath has compared the child to a watch. In this instance it was love that created this child in the ... way that a watchmaker created a new gold watch. One of her more imagery-driven stanzas comes throughout lines ten-twelve. It begins, "All night your moth-breath/", taking the silent action of a moth's wings and ... communicate a hesitant mother's growth of l...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

...  setting, through the perspective of Midas' wife. This poem illustrates how one's choices and actions can impact upon another. When Midas had his wish, of everything he touches turning into gold, granted he felt powerful and delighted, "like a king on a burnished throne". This didn't last long, for the couple realised that his new ability meant they were unable to touch ... image of Midas and his piles of useless metal. By comparing Midas to an Egyptian pharaoh who died very young, hinting that he too will die young and surrounded with gold, Duffy stirs a sense of sympathy f...

• Word Count: 1489
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . In a direct reference to her male relationships, Plath writes after her suicide attempt; 'I am your opus/ I am your valuable/ The pure gold baby'. In doing so she uses language and diction of value such as the 'pure gold baby' to describe the commodification of her existence by the masculine overseers of her life who seek to conform her to an ... ...

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

... meant. (Wadsworth 517) This girl has got it bad, it sounds like she is saying they have the perfect marriage. She writes, I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold, Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. (l. 5-8) I wanted to analyze the word ... equating two things that may, at first, seems completely dissimilar, often an abstraction and a concrete image. (Wadsworth G5) She writes, "I prize thy love more than the whole mine of gold." (l.5) A person cannot put a value on love because love i...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... love and come live with him in eternal bliss through many promises both tangible and otherwise. Through his many promises of beds of roses, hats of flowers, and slippers with gold buckles he repeatedly tries to convince her that living with him will, as he says, "all the pleasures prove" (2). In the 3rd stanza the shepherd's focus shifts from the pleasures ... of Marlowe and bringing them back down to earth. Though she is just a young girl, the nymph's wise reasoning reminds us that life isn't just posies, nightingales, coral clasps and gold buckles. Time is going to pass whether we are...

• Word Count: 1449
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• Grade Level: High School

... awarded for his poetry numerous times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times, in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943. He was one of the three poets awarded the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1939. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1950, by unanimous resolution, Frost won the ... gold medal from the U.S. senate. Perhaps the highlight of his career was when he marked history by participating in President John F. Kennedy's inauguration ceremonies, in 1961, by reading his poems Dedication ... ...

• Word Count: 2122
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

... last section the "you" seemed to be more pertinent to the sister. The word choice of "yellow light globe" and how it sheds it's color upon her making her appear a gold-ish hue implies the worlds or just the surroundings influence. Connecting to the next line, when looking in the mirror (if taken literally) she would appear yellow ... / gold though she isn't. The list of places she's been to and their influence is her questioning; if she had not been to these places or had these experience she wouldn't ... ...

• Word Count: 1488
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• Grade Level: High School

... state of things, but the "four lean hounds crouching low and smiling- present the reader with a feeling of impending doom. The repetition of the rider being on a "great horse of gold- and the repetition on the "four lean hounds crouched low and smiling- have been felt to symbolize the four horsemen of the apocalypse (Kidder 23), which reinforces the emotional response ... alternately (or simultaneously) shocking and exalting them-. (1376) All in Green is one poem that exalts the reader by taking them through watching "four red roebuck at a white water- in a "gold valley- with the "sheer...

• Word Count: 1602
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... one is a very strong word. It conjures up images of electricity and even lightning. Line two follows directly from line one in that it is a scientific image. It refers to gold leaf foil as used to measure electrical charges in Faraday's famous experiment. This is a metaphor for God's greatness as the speaker is likening it to lightning that charges the earth ... . God's bright light will cover the earth and man will be able to see the wonder of creation. Just as light is reflected from gold foil, flashing out in multiplying rays, so to does the light of God, which leads men, continue to ...

• Word Count: 1415
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... Men, Woman, and Ghosts. This shows Lowell's pursuit of objectivity through the impression is the most important in the poem of "The Aquarium." Streaks of gold and yellow iridescence, Silver shiftings, Rings veering out of rings, Silver -- gold -- Grey-green opaqueness sliding down, With sharp white bubbles Shooting and dancing, Flinging quickly outward. Nosing the bubbles, Swallowing them, Fish. In this poem ... ...

• Word Count: 2046
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... champion of the working class. Born by Rose Emily and Joseph Henry on December 12, 1873, in Dublin, Ireland. When Lola was twenty-one she married Peter Webster. Peter was a gold mine manager. Lola's marriage failed so she moved to Sydney, New South Wales. She enrolled in Trinity College and studied painting and writing. Around this time, she also started writing ... ...

• Word Count: 1344
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... and trees, and the flowers are shed tears to the emotional response of the birds. "War's beacon fires have gone on three months, letters from home are worth thousands in gold ", in here he turns from the world of nature and the immediate world around him. In this sentence, he contemplates remembered the length of time that he has been separated ... ...

• Word Count: 1790
• Approx Pages: 7
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... published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926. He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania three years later. In 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon gold medal for literature. Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in ... ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... later disowned him. In 1827 Poe joined the U.S. Army as a common soldier under assumed name and age. He was sent to Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, which provided settings for 'The Gold Bug' (1843) and 'The Balloon Hoax' (1844). In 1830 Poe entered West Point and was dishonorably discharged next year, for intentional neglect of his duties - apparently as a result of his ... ...

• Word Count: 1504
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• Grade Level: High School

... it may develop its own destiny of philosophy, religion, and artistry . The poem's climatic third stanza, addresses the spirits of Byzantium. O sages standing in God's holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall. He request they come to where he exists, "sick with desire." He wants them to "consume away" his heart, blind with mortal dreams, and teach him immortality ... ...

• Word Count: 2111
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• Grade Level: High School

... dealing with this subject matter, is "Suburban Sonnet." It is a poem about a housewife cleaning up the after-Christmas mess, who, as it becomes obvious, isn't very happy with her life. Gold, silver pink and blue, the globes distort her; framed in the doorway: woman with a broom. Wrappings and toys lie scattered round the room. A glossy magazine the children bought her lies ... ...

• Word Count: 1594
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• Grade Level: High School

... to think of this Grecian urn without the mention of Keats" name, but not otherwise. Keats did die, yet his name, instead of being erased from life, was carved in gold on the pages of English romantic poetry. John Keats was not doomed to failure, and his name was never" writ on water". Reading and Reference: 1- Cleanth Brooks: The Well Wrought ... ...

• Word Count: 1325
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• Grade Level: High School

... delight it is to clown; who coast for fun on the strong tidal currents in and out among the mangrove islands and stand on the sand-bars drying their damp gold wings on sun-lit evenings (Bishop, lines 11-16) After reading this, one can almost feel the "damp" wings of the pelicans and can envision these birds playing in the ... ...

• Word Count: 1338
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• Grade Level: High School

... , if you can." (line 3- 4) boasting that no other women can compare with her happiness. A physical comparison to love for a price is introduced, "I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold Or all the riches the East doth hold."(line 5-6) The two lines tell the reader that Bradstreet is aware of the wealth of the objects; however her love surpasses even ... ...

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... poetry of 19th-century American Edgar Allan Poe reflect the writer's haunting imagination. Poe, one of the earliest masters of short story writing, created the first detective stories. His "The Gold Bug" (1843) tells the tale of a search for buried treasure on a South Carolina island lV. The twentieth and twenty-first century romantics A. Packet Attached B. Robert Frost (1874-1963) - American poet ... ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... . In 1936 he married Erika Mann, daughter of Thomas Mann, to provide her with a British passport and enable her to leave Germany. (McDiarmid 63) In 1937 he received King George's Gold Medal for Poetry. Auden immigrated to the United States in 1939 (he became an American citizen in 1946) and at about the same time returned to the religion of his ... ...

• Word Count: 2321
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• Grade Level: High School

... challenging the way their lives are lived because he lives his life differently, and is content with it when he says "The shame I win for singing is all mine/ The gold I miss for dreaming is all yours."" In other words, only they think he is losing out; he does not. The "friends" are in denial about their materialistic endeavors. They want ... ...

• Word Count: 1536
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• Grade Level: High School

... unicorn is a crafty, imaginative and fictional creature that represents the imagination a child has, and the things that that imagination can accomplish. The unicorn is described in full detail including their gold horns which show the beauty of being young. The use of these vibrant descriptions allows for a contrast between the marvel of the unicorn and the sad mood that has been ... ...

• Word Count: 1351
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926. He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania three years later. In 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon gold medal for literature. Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in ... ...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School