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…Walt Whitman's "Spontaneous Me" (Norton 2151-2152) crystallizes his attempt to create poems that appear natural, impulsive and untamed. The natural effect is a carefully crafted technique that appears throughout his writing, hinting at a philosophy…

…On the surface, "Two Tramps in Mud Time" seems to display Robert Frost's narrow individualism. The poem, upon first reading it, seems incongruent, with some of the stanzas having no apparent connection to the whole poem. The poem…

…In the poem "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph", Anne Sexton alludes to the flight of Icarus and Daedalus and to "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing" to convey a message to a friend. I think this poem was written to reassure a friend…

…Lit Essay T.S. Eliot. Question 13. Many poems work by leaving out, omitting connections, asking us to make bridges. Discuss the ways in which two or more poems ask for our collaboration to make meaning. T.S. Eliot believed in conveying…

…The poem starts of with a rhetorical Question “Who is to comprehend the Mysteries of love?” The composer portrays how love is a mysterious entity and no one is immune to it, the composer point out that no one can tell who they fall in love with because…

…Poems that are based on romanticism such as "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant express a certain feeling not obtained in other kinds of poems. Many people in the romantic era believed that man's purpose was to become one with nature. They felt power…

…"Ode to Autumn" does convey a "oneness with nature" through sensuous images and techniques. Alliteration, personification, imagery, similes, rhetorical questions, enjambment and positive connotations contained in this poem are all techniques that add…

…poem, "I'm nobody, who are you?" is probably her most famous poems. After awhile Emily sent some of her poems to Thomas Higginson. He did not think most people would like her poems. They were too different. Soon Emily decided that only her family and friends…

…William Blake's poem The Tyger is a poem that alludes to the darker side of creation, when its benefits are less obvious than simple joys. Along the poem the doming feeling of both text and author is surprise. Blake's simplicity in language…

…"Tulips", a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about Sylvia Plath's experience in a hospital after she had tried to commit suicide. The poem illustrates just how depressed the author was at the time and how the slightest initiative of happiness was distracting…