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…In the poem "Death Be Not Proud," written by John Donne death is personified. The personification of death creates a feeling that death is less powerful than we think. Donne creates and image of death that is not mysterious, not in control…

…you thinking which is what a poem needs to get you doing because if it starts very low-key and it doesn't grab the reader's imagination then he might stop reading it. It is also open to many different interpretations which again grabs the reader's…

…this regret in three of the five stanzas in the poem. Through repetition and rhyme the author shows what a war can do to the mind as the man tries to justify his killing. “I shot him down because- Because he was my foe. Just so: my foe of course he was.” (line 10…

…Loyalty to Friend or Family: With every relationship comes struggle, especially when relationships over lap. Overlapping relationships cause a man to choose or be chosen based upon pride or loyalty. In the epic Poem, Raoul of Cambrai, translated…

…Babi Yar - Analysis of the Poem- Yevtushenko speaks in first person throughout the poem. This creates the tone of him being in the shoes of the Jews. As he says in lines 63-64, "No Jewish blood is mixed in mine, but let me be a Jew . . . " He…

…deemed marriage as a lifelong and sacred union that could be dissolved only by the death of one of the spouses. John Ciardi seems to capture the basic theme of marriage and the unification of two beings by using imagery and tone in his poems “Most Like an Arch…

…change. Some Hindus also believe that a hare live in the moon. This causes people to believe that all hares are an incarnation of Soma. Not only is the moon a large subject in mythology, it is also the main subject in many poems and is also in one of the most…

…Death Is Better Than Being Imperfect-NOT! The poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy, states that this girl would rather be dead and beautiful, than alive and “ugly”. Most girls this day and age have the same state of mind. Society makes you think that it’s…

…In Adrienne Rich's poem, 'Living in Sin,' a woman, entering a life full of hope and promises with her lover, assumes that 'no dust' will fall upon her home, nor her perfect relationship. Her life, however, does not fit this ideal. Both a deteriorating…

…The poet basically says that everyone is a traveler and choosing the roads to follow on the map of life is never a straight path that leaves someone with one single direction in which to head. The poet's point of view in this poem is his belief…