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…direction in which to head. Regardless of the original message that Robert Frost had intended to convey, “The Road Not Taken” has left me with many different interpretations. Throughout this poem, it is obvious that decisions are not easy to make and each…

…'Henry Purcell' by Gerard Manley Hopkins is a sonnet. This is so, as it begins with two quatrains, which describe the musician from whom the poem takes its name, followed by a sestet that takes a closer look at the music that he (Henry Purcell) created…

…The poem is one of the most powerful ways to convey an idea or opinion. Intense imagery and compelling content in a poem gives a reader the exact feeling the author wanted. The poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” an anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen, makes great…

…Overview of the poem] 'The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter' was published in 1915 in Ezra Pound's third collection of poetry, Cathay: Translations, which contains versions of Chinese poems composed from the sixteen notebooks of Ernest Fenollosa…

…name, I had a completely different interpretation of what Jarrells poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” meant. Having no background information on Jarrell and his views when he wrote that poem, my interpretation of that same poem, my interpretation…

….” The purpose of this poem is to help Lawson express his feelings about his profound deafness and the sorrow he feels for himself and the people in the street who are not blessed with what he thought to be beauty. Lawson was born into a poverty stricken…

…The purpose of William Blake’s London is to reveal the oppression of the lower class citizens of London, by the aristocracy during the late 18th century. Blake uses various poetic devices in order to enhance the portrayal of the poems purpose…

…such topics as romantic love, motherhood, and relationships between the sexes. So, Anne Sexton uses twisted metaphors and similes, symbolic images, and vivid colors to tell about her transformed poems. By using twisted metaphors and similes as a technique in her…

…Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1932. In the 1950's she married an English poet Ted Hughes, but their marriage was an unhappy one, though both of them were highly creative. Her poems often have darker sides to them as she suffered…

…In the poem “To the Snake” the author Denise Levertov use several writing techniques to portray money and gambling. She uses syntax, sound imagery, color imagery, figurative language, and symbolism to represent money and gambling. Symbolism is used…