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…A lamb is a gentle and meek creature that is both daring and submissive. A lamb is very much like a child. In “The Lamb,” William Blake creates a childlike tone through a very songlike form and structure. What this does is give the poem an innocent view…

…Spirits of the dead by Edgar Allen Poe is a compilation of 5 small verses or stanzas to make one whole poem. The title is self explanatory in that it is about lost souls or spirits of the dead. Each stanza takes you through another setting of the lost…

…William Wordsworth wrote a poem called “The World is Too Much With Us”. In this poem Wordsworth gives a warning to his generation. This warning is that they are losing sight of what is actually important in this world: nature and God. To some people…

…The poem entitled “The Darkling Thrush,” written by Thomas Hardy, has a very appealing connotation. The work can be separated into two parts; the dismal part pertaining to the beginning of winter and the second part focusing on one small aspect of good…

…Andrew Marvell’s poem, To His Coy Mistress, is a carpe diem poem which focuses on how the speaker wants his love to be. To reinforce this theme, Marvell uses the literary elements of allusions, metaphor, imagery and tone. Marvell begins his poem…

…an extraordinary job, in all of his works, of giving his readers the chance to “enlarge and enrich their existence”. His poem, I Sit and Look, is a prime example. In the poem, I Sit and Look, Whitman describes how he feels when he removes himself from the environment…

…Allen Ginsberg In his poem “ America”, Allen Ginsberg is disappointed in the “Country”. He sees the country as being wicked and asks, “ When will you be angelic ”. To him, the country is not being honest with itself, and is hiding behind a mask. He…

…The epic poem Beowulf was written by an unknown Anglo-Saxon author in the 8th century. Many scholars have seen fit to analyze the theme of the poem. David Wright stated that the theme of the epic poem, Beowulf, was the conflict between good and evil…

…“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is about a man who is riding through the woods on horseback. Snow starts falling and the man is caught up in the beauty…

…of transcendentalism are shown through literary devices in his poetry. Of these, the idea of the Over-Soul is one of the most common. Emerson uses many literary devices to illustrate the Over-Soul in his poetry. In the poem The Rhodora, the author, Ralph Waldo Emerson uses…