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…-American writer whose fingertips are on the heartbeat and pulse of voiceless women and blacks. In her frustration and perseverance, she sits down and pens “Aunt Chloe’s Politics”, a timeless attack on the politics of Reconstruction and the poem…

…"The Tyger" blake Summary The poem begins with the speaker asking a fearsome tiger what kind of divine being could have created it: "What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame they fearful symmetry?" Each subsequent stanza contains further questions…

…In Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Lady Lazarus”, she horrifically describes the yearning for attention she has always wanted. By using the most expressive ways possible she entrances the audience’s imaginative minds by unleashing this literary work. She uses…

…Shakespeare - Sonnet 18 This sonnet is by far one of the most interesting poems in the book. Of Shakespeare's sonnets in the text, this is one of the most moving lyric poems that I have ever read. There is great use of imagery within the sonnet…

…In the poem “Birches”, Robert frost takes an image of a birch tree whose branches have been worn from the winter, and transforms the literal image into a deeper poem about escaping from the ground and the earth into a safe haven up in the branches, being…

…death through their literary works. The authors' background influences his or her opinion on death. D.H. Lawrence, from Britain, and Emily Dickenson, from America, both incorporate their ideas about death in their poetry. These complex poems utilize a wide…

…things, such as fruits, and simple machines. In a fine work of Williams, such as "The Red Wheelbarrow", the simple eight-line structure keeps the basis that "So much depends on the red wheelbarrow". In this poem, Williams talks about how "So much depends…

…Ethics In Linda Pastan’s poem "Ethics," the speaker recounts a moral dilemma that her teacher would ask every fall, which has been haunting her for a long time. The question was "if there were a fire in a museum / which would you save, a Rembrandt…

…"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" Life, death, and reincarnation are portrayed in Emily Dickinson's poem "I felt a Funeral, in my brain". The use of words associated with death gives the poem an ominous and dark karma. At the beginning of this poem…

…Most Hated Father In the book, “The Living and The Dead,” by Sharon Olds the author makes writes poems about her view on images of life and death and what she associates each with. This anthology seems to be mostly influenced by her family, from her…