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…When we learn to read poems, we acquire a pleasure and a resource we never loose. Poetry records and embodies centuries of human thought and emotion, preserving for us the minds of people who lived before us, who were like and unlike us, against whom…

…About the poem Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the story of the Romantic archetype, the Wanderer, the man with the mark of Cain, doomed to walk the earth alone and alienated from all others. What is presented to the reader is a theme…

…agreeable and engaging poem Coleridge ever wrote. The best poem I have read, it seems to share a bit of optimism and sincere generosity of impulse. The openness and selfless friendship need to be stressed, one must see as well that beneath the poem's relaxed…

…life with a hands on approach while Dickinson observed through her window. Whitman hoped his poems would set examples in the future; Dickinson didn't. Dickinson did not expect anything to come from her poetry, she didn't even want them published. Dickinsons…

…“She Walks in Beauty” In the poem “She Walks in Beauty,” the author Byron, concentrates his love poem around a beautiful woman and all of her marvelous features. To any reader this woman is betrayed as love at first sight, but in actuality it is his…

…poem “Sleep is supposed to be.” It is organized so that each stanza expresses a different idea, which leads the reader to the main one. She also arranges lines and adds dashes at the end of some. The sentences are separated into lines with iambic trimeter…

…have any kids yourself. Lately, I have read a good deal of poems by Philip Larkin, and one unifying factor that I have noticed is that Larkin never seems to use a filler. Every word in every one of his poems seems to be carefully crafted and placed…

…“Howl” By Alan Ginsberg After reading “Howl”, the first and almost only thing in my mind is “wow.” Reading it gives me an image of a disastrous world, and even though I personally have not been exposed to even heard of what was mentioned in the poem…

…John Donne is regarded as the forerunner of Metaphysical poets. His poems, whether cynical or idealistic, are characterized by fantastic conceits, metaphors and hyperbole. Donne¡¯s images are usually untraditional. In his poems about love he does…

…¡°A young man is persuading his loved lady into accepting his love considering the short lifetime.¡± The theme of this poem is not new, but Andrew Marvell is unique in the selection and development of images and structuring of the poem. More important…