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…In "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins readers can find many sound devices. Examples of such devices are alliteration, onomatopoeia, and assonance which give the poem a sense of action. Thus, they help to bring out the true meaning and sentiments…

…themes. The medium of poetry certainly has the power to reflect the writer’s moods and mental state, and the poetry of Walt Whitman’s demonstrates this power. A comparison of “Song of Myself,” one of Whitman’s earlier poems, and “As I Ebb’d With the Ocean…

…Robert Frost's 'The Pasture' is a short, two-stanza poem, which he requested be published at the beginning of all of his books. If one were to analyse some of the poems that gave an insight into Frost's personality and character, this would most…

…Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is wrote in a way that the reader is expected to temporarily allow him or herself to believe it to be able to understand it. The poem itself is about a Mariner who is telling his tale of sin…

…at how the style of poetry and the attitude of the poets changed over the course of the war. The first poem that I'm going to look at is Jessie Pope's who's for the game. Jessie wrote poems for the daily mail she was hated by poet Wilfred Owen for her lack…

…Robert frost Summary On the surface, this poem is simplicity itself. The speaker is stopping by some woods on a snowy evening. He or she takes in the lovely scene in near-silence, is tempted to stay longer, but acknowledges the pull of obligations…

…instead of being limited to the traditional themes of poetry. Her poem "The Cry of the Children" is a particularly poignant accusation of the richer upper class Londoners who would go about their business while children under the age of ten were slaving away…

…"Futility" Futility means that something is destined to fail. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The structure of the poem is in balanced stanzas - the tenderness and hopefulness at the beginning…

…embracing it. William Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" is a poem about a man who comes back to natural setting and realizes its profound beauty and him praising its great effect on him. This is one poem that contains enormous amounts…

…This poem is written simply, but it goes deeper on many levels. There is nothing that dumbfounds us when we read it, but a higher level of thought allows us to analyze and discover what Frost is trying to convey. Time spent contemplating this poem…