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…, but is attacked by the same gang (who don't recognize him) and is thrown off London Bridge into the Thames, which is unfortunately frozen over, and is killed on the hard ice below. Housman's poetry is similarly pessimistic. In fully half the poems…

…Literal Meaning The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost addresses the idea of decision making and choosing what direction life will take you. The poem is about the speaker arriving at a fork in the road, where both paths are carpeted with leaves…

…Poetry Explication The second sonnet in Mark Jarman's group of sonnets entitled The Word "Answer" can be interpreted two different ways. Is there a "right" way from which to view this poem, or is the poet simply exercising his God given right…

…We Wear The Mask The central element of Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s poem, we wear the mask, is the very words of the title. He repeats them in every stanza and they are a pivotal element that influences a reader’s text selection for interpretation…

…" I thought you were my victory /though you cut me like a knife" (Stevenson 1-2). The opening lines of Anne Stevenson's poem The Victory set a tone of conflict. This poem, at its surface, expresses a mother's thoughts on giving birth to a son. Stevenson…

…"The Lamb" is one of the poems in the Songs of Innocence, which was published in 1789. As the contrary poem to "The Lamb", "The Tiger" in the Songs of Experience came 5 years later in 1794. In the fifth stanza of "The Tiger", there is a question asked…

…"Marvell Vs Herrick" During the 17th century the style of writing was changing from poems about death to ones whose subject was about living life to it’s fullest extent. This kind of writing was also known as carpe diem. Robert Herrick and Andrew…

…In “I heard a Fly buzz”; Emily Dickinson expresses to her readers about the emotional instability she feels while on her deathbed. She has written several poems about death, but this one differs from her other poems because it is told from her…

…message that Robert Frost had intended to convey in his poem, "The Road Not Taken", leaves its readers with many different interpretations. It is one's past and present with which he looks upon his future that determines the shade of the light that he will see…

…friend's beauty. At the end of the sonnet Shakespeare writes about "eternal lines" which symbolize that his friend's beauty will live in this poem forever. In the last two lines, lines 13 and 14, the poet says that as long as people would read this poem, his…