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…"The Convergence of the Twain" Personification is "endowing inanimate objects or abstract ideas with life or human characteristics" (Kirszner 2058). In the poem "The Convergence of the Twain" the author’s use of personification allows the reader…

…body. When it gets close, it goes back up to where it started just to torture the man. This story's mood puts a dark and torturous illustration in the reader's mind. In Poe's poem, "The Raven", there is a predominant mood of death. The poem is about a man…

…thought the entire poem. The first is "Why dost thou thus, / Through windows and through curtains, call on us" (line 2-3). This is because the sun doesn't call on anyone; this is also personification because the sun is given speech, a characteristic of humans…

…I find this poem to be easily read on a variety of levels, first, of course, being a literal level with two neighbors mending the wall between the two. "Good fences make good neighbors," (line 27) according to the man's father. The quote is a reference…

…of betrayal by Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden when they eat from the sacred tree. In the poem, the narrator is describing his constantly growing anger towards his adversary, which Blake compares to the growth of a tree. Just as a tree needs sunlight to grow his…

…The title of Wallace Stevens poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," is misleading, because he does not only offer thirteen ways of looking at blackbird, but the poem offers us many insights on how humans think. "Blackbird", written by Paul…

…and implies it throughout the poem, and uses rhyme, imagery, and irony to incorporate the theme that the one who holds success dearest to them is the one who never succeeds. The rhythmic pattern makes the poem flow together, using the rhyme scheme ABCB…

…The poem is the beginning of a tale about a demon or vampire. At the opening, it is midnight. Everyone is asleep except for Christabel, who is roaming the woods longing for her lover. She encounters a beautiful lady who had been kidnapped by five…

…To despair is one of the strongest emotions that Freud's id could possibly produce. It's an uncontrollable feeling that leads even the worthiest and most powerful men to emptiness and hopelessness. In the 14-line poem, "Ozymandias" by PB Shelley, Shelley…

…Drama in Levertov’s “Adam’s Complaint” The drama in Levertov’s poem is found in the first stanza; “Some people, no matter what you give them, still want the moon”. The poem speaks of the inability some people have…