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…The most obvious and blatant image in the poem is, of course, nature. The poem contains the wood pile itself, a swamp, winter scenery (snow), and birds as well as the narrator's fascination with communicating with such creatures. The narrator…

…Christ Church, Oxford where his studies and writing progress without much success: he received a disappointing third-class degree in English and had his first collection of poems rejected by T.S. Eliot at Faber & Faber. In 1928 he moved to Berlin where he…

…Literary Essay I have heard some people say Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” may be about contemplating suicide, perhaps it may simply be about what its title indicates. There is plenty of room to interpret the poem…

…many poems. Often times critics see Dickinson as a writer with no feeling. Many of Emily Dickinson's 1775 poems deal with her beliefs concerning the process of death, the rituals surrounding death and the question of immortality. Dickinson did indeed…

…. After the burning of her house 1666, Bradstreet wrote this poem. It expresses her longing for the house and the possessions that were consumed in the fire. The poem also shows the author’s solid faith in God. There is a minor conflict between her religious…

…Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet’s poem “The Author to Her Book” is a very extraordinary poem. Many people when first reading it, think it’s about a mother and her deformed child. In fact, it is not. The poem is about her work, which was taken…

…Phillis Wheatley and Her Writing Techniques Phillis Wheatley’s poems do not focus on her condition as a slave, but rather on the white Christians view of slaves. She uses writing techniques such as biblical allusions, classical references…

…language. The poem is organized in such a way that, as it progresses, the reader feels the author approaching death as the use of carefully chosen meta-phors that give "Sonnet 73" such powerful imagery. In the beginning of the poem the author uses the metaphor…

…on the urn were like. There are pictures of trees on the urn; these trees will always be budding, for the picture upon the urn will never change. The poem also talks about the youth of the people, and that they will never grow any older than…

…RED Warm lips are red, blood drops are too, Abe Lincoln was shot, the nation was blue. In the poem" O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman, the color red is used as a symbol for many objects. Red symbolizes blood shed, life, happiness and it also…