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…Auer 1 Paul Auer English Final draft 10-30-00 Death is Good Emily Dickinson is a writer well known for her poems on death. Her poems “Safe in their Alabaster Chambers” and “Because I could not stop for Death” are two of her more famous poems…

…Imagery Depicted Through T.S. Elliot's “The Hollow Men” The imagery depicted in T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" evokes a sense of desolate hopelessness and lends to Eliot's generally cynical view of civilization during this period in history…

…. The chickens are white, vague, weak and auxiliary. To me this poem suggests a sense of rebirth, or new life. In this poem the reader also picks up the four small, distinct stanzas, with four words each. Each stanza has three words on the first line and one…

…“The Lamb” and “The Tyger” by William Blake are two poems that compare the beliefs of the speaker, which in the case of these poems was William Blake, the author. These two poems are works that question if there is a “creator” who created the evil…

…Childhood Is The Kingdom… In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies,” she wrote of the outcome of a death of a loved one is to child. In Millay’s poem she writes of a person who has lost…

…"Birches," by Robert Frost, is an archetypical example of a Frost poem. Frost's poems are normally characterized by beautifully evocative descriptions of nature that form a very clear picture in the reader's mind. On first reading, many of his…

…Anne Sexton- Transformations The reason that I and about everyone else really enjoy and relate to this book of poems by Sexton is because all the poems are centered on classic fairytales we all know. This reason and the fact that all…

…things however is most famous for his poems. The main purpose of his poems was to use words, syntax, and punctuation to paint a picture in the readers mind as well as invoke certain emotions, even if not understood completely. He was always looking for new…

…Dulce Et Decorum Est In the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, explores the hard conditions and realities of the soldiers during the World War I. The burdens of war and the overwhelming weariness faced by the soldiers…

…William Ernest Henley’s use of vivid language in his poem, “Invictus”, creates imagery which in turn aids in the poem’s powerful and courageous tone. Henley brings to the reader a poem in which victory is easily perceived due to the images that he…