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…William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Before writing the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth had tried his hand at several other poems, although today we read such early poems as "An Evening Walk" and "Descriptive Sketches" mainly because…

…God's Nature. Blake published two very famous books of poems, "Songs of Experience" and "Song of Innocence". The poems from "Songs of Experience" are all about God who brought the evil and suffering into the world. The "Songs of the Innocence…

…'Poetry is a ceremonial form and ceremonies can help reconcile us to the aspects of our human experience which are themselves irreconcilable.' (Haslam & Turton) How do at least three of Hardy's poems about religion and agnosticism attempt to do…

…having a bad day up until that point. Who doesn't like feeling happy? Most people do, and this is why poetry has universal appeal. Key strategies these poems use are, rhyme, onomatopoeia, and rhythm. These make a poem brighter, fun, and happier. Out of all…

…The poem "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson is a poem written about the town aristocrat named Richard Cory. It is written with four quatrain stanzas with a rhyme scheme of a, b, a, b, for each stanza. The poet's use of hyperboles and royal…

…Critical Analysis of Jungle Night The speaker of the poem is a civilian observer, probably a local. There is a sense of tension and fear in the speaker’s tone. The speaker uses an observatory tone in the poem, a combination…

…Grendel Vs. Grendel In the epic poem Beowulf, Grendel is seen as pure evil and nothing more. He brings bad things and he kills loved ones. The epic poem just shows him as a monster who needs to be killed. In John Gardner’s novel, Grendel…

…phases of an individual's life. The Simple Gift is a free-verse novel targeted to young adults. The novel is divided into eleven chapters and again into ten or so poems within each chapter. Each chapter and poems are given appropriate titles relevant to its…

…Mean Streets The subject of Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia” has to do with a person walking on city streets, but the theme focuses on a certain aspect of the person. The poem describes how easily one can lose his or her identity when…

…Emily Dickinson's "What Soft- Cherubic Creatures-" Emily Dickinson's poem "What Soft- Cherubic Creatures-" is a poem that deals with the universal concept of hypocrisy; that is to say, one tends to show one face to the world which is merely…