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…Variations on the Word Sleep By Margaret Atwood In Variations on the Word Sleep the narrator of the poem immediately addresses his/her conscience need to connect with the other person, and they also recognize the hopelessness of this goal: "I would…

…Any interpretation of "My Papa's Waltz" has to take into account the complexity of the speaker's feelings that are brought about by his father's waltz. A dance should bring two people closer together. The dance in this poem acts that way, yet…

…        I'm not sure when A.E. Housman wrote this poem, however, even at twenty I can identify. This poem gives light to the risk of love by accentuating the pain of losing in love.         The opening line, "When I was one and twenty…

…Urn" is an ancient vase with a work of art printed on it. Keats would often times use his poetry to create a world of pure joy, but in this poem the world of fantasy is the life of the people on the urn. Keats sees them, simultaneously, as carved figures…

…fact was what they used to rise above the masses, instead of below them. In Wang Wei's poems "A Farewell" and "Drifting on the Lake," we see two speakers who consider themselves outcasts of society. However, where one speaker despairs in it, the other uses…

…From the start, it is not difficult to figure out what the subject of the poem is about. However, unlike Dickinson's "There's a certain Slant of Light" which seemingly starts out upbeat and ends in an opposite fashion, this poem starts out dark…

…If a picture is worth a thousand words, a poem is worth ten-thousand. Poetry constructs an image and illustrates underlying ideas that the writer wants to convey. A poem has many aspects that make it what it is, the subject - or what the poem talks about…

…Review: Do not go gentle into that good night <Tab/>The poem, Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas is, in my opinion, an excellent poem. While having the ordinary structure of a villanelle, this poem is in many ways…

…beautiful things, and they were daring, and passionate. Poets who wrote work of this sort were by no means far and few between, there were many, but two examples are Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh. The poem written by Marlowe is "The Passionate…

…Dulce et Decorum Est All exceptional poetry displays a good use of figurative language, imagery, and diction. Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" is a powerful antiwar poem which takes place on a battlefield during World War I. Through dramatic…