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…faster (Bishop).” Losing can be like any other practice because as one practice’s more, tasks become easier and more of a challenge is needed. Throughout the poem, things are lost in a particular order. It starts out with losing little things, which really…

…of the military and society’s loss of stasis with nature which are both described in Reed’s poem. The numerous connotations of words and phrases in Reed’s poem help bring out this theme of imbalance. In “Naming of Parts”, Henry Reed compares the garden…

…half of the 1900ís. In much of Hughes' poetry, a theme that runs throughout is that of a "dream deferred." The recurrence of a "dream deferred" in several Hughes poems, especially this one, paint a clear picture of the disappointment and dismay that blacks…

…“Come In” by Robert Frost Robert Frost is a well known American poet often associated with beautiful scenes from the New England area. However, the deeper meanings of his poems is often overlooked by their reader, many critics use words…

…Ulysses By Tennyson The poem I chose to write about is “Ulysses”, by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is a poem based on Homer’s Odyssey, which is the story of Odysseus (Ulysses) and his journeys. Odysseus was King of Ithaca and leader…

…in the war die not only because of war. Exposure to the severe cold is killing everyone. The speaker starts off by saying, “Our brains ache.” The negative nature of this statement gives one a clue as to the negative themes in the rest of the poem. One…

…poems had deep philosophical meaning that could be understood by people in every walk of life. Even though his verse forms were traditional, he was among the pioneers in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary of everyday…

…‘War Is Hell’, ‘The Glory Of War’ - How do the poems discuss these phrases? These two opposite quotes depict the two very different views on war. Many think of it as a glorious way to die. ‘To die for ones country’ is supposedly heroic. Many…

…representations of how the world should be, and Emily did not fit in with those schemas. Much of her poetry therefore deals with the concept of suffering. For example, poem #378 (959) discusses the suffering she has withstood and her need for "delinquent palaces…

…T. S. Eliot’s poem “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is quite a lengthy poem for the novice poetry reader, which consists of some 130 lines. Yet, it is the poem’s mass that enables the rookie to discern the theme at length. In the beginning…