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…Since everyone knows that William Blake was Virgina Woolf's son, it should come as no suprise that they share a postmodern sensibility. In Blake's poem, "The Sick Rose," the rose is a symbol for a tree. The worm which infects the rose symbolizes…

…"September, 1918 by the modernist poet Amy Lowell was very enlightening poem. It gave a sense of hope and imagination. It was how the writer wanted to see the world in the year of 1918, during World War I. The poet was speaking of the war between…

…The purpose of the poem, ¡°Dulce et Decorum Est¡±, is to try to explain to the public that war is not at all glorious. Owen finishes this poem by saying to not tell children who want glory that to die for your country is not as sweet as it may seem…

…Imagine this scenario: three English men sitting around a table at a drunken party. The men bet each other that each of them could come up with the best poem in the alotted time of fifteen minutes. The poem's topic was Egypt. The poem Ozymandias…

…"The Pasture" by Robert Frost is a short, structured two-stanza poem. This poem gave the readers a vision of Frost's character. Reading this poem, I get the feeling that Frost really loves the country. I think the pasture spring in the phrase "I'm…

…"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is about the decisions that a person makes in life and how it affects their life. Frost uses nature to express this, which is a characteristic of romanticism. The poem first starts off with a mood of regret which…

…and learn how to grow slowly; egotism to say of himself, as Shakespeare does in "Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments," that lie believes ins poem will live forever. A great poet, then, has a true insight into the value of his creation. He understands better than…

…When I heard that we were going to read "Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost, I was extremely pleased, as I was very familiar with this it. I first read it as a child and it has ever since been my favorite poem. Explicating this poem…

…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, to the point where…

…Contrast in "Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind" In the poem "Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind" by Stephen Crane, contrast is used to make a statement about the war. The poem shows the different view points of the war, how different people…