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…ROBERT FROST: “CAN IRONY IN POEMS MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR READERS TO UNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE” In Robert frost poems, he operates on so many levels that to interpret his poems can cause the reader to misunderstand them completely. He focuses his works…

…R Generation Langston Hughes, in the poem, Mother to Son, is comparing two generations. The mother in the poem represents an older time period or genre, and the young son represents a more modern era. The author has created a clear metaphor…

…Langston Hughes poetry portrays with vivid imagery of his travels abroad and writes of his deep-seated thoughts and views on racism and inequality in America during the Harlem Renaissance. His poem titled “Negro Speaks of Rivers” that he wrote…

…In William Shakespeare’s poem “When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth”, the speaker uses several key lines and words that particularly enhance the meaning and images of the poem. The following lines illustrate this: I do believe her, though…

…Guilt is the central theme of the poem, “Those Winter Sundays.” Upon reading this emotionally steering poem, it leaves the reader reminiscing of one's own childhood. “What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?” “Those Winter…

…Under the Influence The poem “Pterodactyls” by Marjorie L. Sallee shows that people are directly influenced by everything they learn in school. Many aspects of the poem are incredibly effective in representing people’s responses to experiences…

…for the Sorbonne, having earned both undergraduate and masters degrees and writing several poems to the Harvard Advocate. After a year in Paris, he returned to Harvard to pursue a doctorate in philosophy, but returned to Europe and settled in England in 1914…

…Nature in Wordsworth’s poems Let me start of by saying I have never been much of a poetry reader. I prefer clearly written stories with easily discernable plots. That being said, I enjoyed Wordsworth’s poems. Well, the parts I could understand…

…Whitman The two poems “To A Locomotive in Winter” and “I like to see it lap the miles” are similar in their topics but expressed in two totally different ways. “To A Locomotive in Winter” is a poem of Whitman’s That describes a train…

…George Manley Hopkin’s poem, “Spring” is a sonnet. The poem deals with the rebirth of a soul. Hopkins writes his poem about the season of spring. Within the poem, Hopkins uses imagery as well as literary devices to portray his meaning. To begin…