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…present state and the other is how he was in time past. "Expostulation and Reply" is a poem comparing the value of books and nature in our lives. Written in 1798, it is based on a conversation the poet had with a friend, William Hazlitt. Hazlitt is chastising…

…the custom of nature in their works included; William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon, Lord Byron, and John Keats. William Wordsworth wrote in a time when society and its functions were beginning to rapidly pick up. The poem…

…to present. The works of T.S. Eliot, Gwen Harwood and Robert Frost from the anthology "Limes to Time" is of no exception. Eliot portrays contrasting images and ideas in many of his poems often leaving the reader in complete despair, but at other times feeling…

…Beowulf-Christianity or Paganism Beowulf was written in England sometime in the 18th century. "This provides us with an idea of a poem that was written during a time when the society had converted from paganism to Christianity"(Cohen 138). "We know…

…Roethke's poem "My Papa's Waltz" suggests even further that this concept could be true. The dance described in this poem illustrates an interaction between father and child that contains more than the expected joyous, loving attitude between the two characters…

…After Apple-Picking In the poem "After Apple-Picking", Robert Frost has cleverly disguised many symbols and allusions to enhance the meaning of the poem. One must understand the parallel to understand the central theme of the poem. The apple mentioned…

…Everyone has their own appreciation of a poem, various from time to time and from place to place. However, their appreciation would be increasingly better when they find themselves similar, in some respects, to the I-speaker. The poem is considered…

…Prayer for Tradition In the poem "A Song for Simeon," T.S. Eliot uses ambiguity and religious allusion to convey decay and death of the old order to make room for modernity. Examining the imagery in the poem and the tone used allows for a better idea…

…, and feel, things that a normal author cannot. Mark Rudman's poem "Chrome," uses carefully chosen words that help to set the pace at which the poem is read aloud. In turn, this tempo helps to create an image, and animate it. Mark Rudman's use of poetic tools…

…Wilfred Owen's poems, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum Est" vividly depict the degrading struggles one faces during times of war. The horrific dealings one experiences not only during, but after war, in memories, are truly nothing short…