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…"The Lost Heritage" "The Lost Heritage" is a free-verse poem by Heather Buck, which illustrates the heritages being forgotten or "lost" in the modern world. The tone of this dramatic monologue is depicted right from the start in the title, "The Lost…

…Some single decisions can determine the course of one’s life. Deciding to marry is defiantly one of these decisions. In Elisavietta Ritchie’s poem, “Sorting Laundry,” the speaker compares folding laundering to making a decision about marriage…

…Imagery in “The Chimney Sweepers” In the poem “The Chimney Sweepers” William Blake illustrates through striking imagery the mistreatment and awful working conditions of the children. Blake emphasizes many literary techniques within the poem…

…Although the tone of both poems is bleak, the tone of ‘A November Landscape’ brightens at the end, while the tone of ‘Winter’ grows even more bleak The poems ‘A November Landscape’ and ‘Winter’, both portrays the coldness and the bitterness of winter…

…The event when the Titanic sank was devastating. It has been known as a major accident/disaster. Thomas Hardy's poem called "The Convergence of the Twain" about the Titanic was very detailed and well written in the ship's and iceberg's point of view…

…"Mending Wall" is a poem written by the poet Robert Frost. The poem describes two neighbors who repair a fence between their estates. It is, however, obvious that this situation is a metaphor for the relationship between two people. The wall…

…Porhyria's Lover is a monologue, which gives the reader a dramatic insight into the mind of an abnormally possessive lover. Love poems often express the wish that time would stand still so that a particularly intense moment of love will last forever…

…during his childhood years. The thought of losing his fiancée, Eleanor White, profoundly moved him and he was considering suicide. In Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Frost contemplates death through strong diction and deep metaphors…

…Robert Frost is often referred to as a poet of nature. Frost used poetic devices, figurative language, and imagery to write many beautiful poems. Words and phrases such as fire and ice, flowers in bloom, apple orchards and rolling hills, are all…

…"How does Kenneth Slessor present his ideas in his poetry? Refer ro the poem you have just heard plus any poem set for study. Comment approaches to Criticism and different interpretations of the poem." Kenneth Slessor is a successful Australian poet…