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…the end of the First World War, he was caught in a German machine gun attack and killed. He was twenty-five years old when he died. Owen's poems, published only after his death, along with his letters from the front line to his mother, are perhaps the most…

…Robert Frost's "THE ROAD NOT TAKEN" talks about the everyday choices that one makes while traveling down the road of life. In the first stanza the speaker introduces the poem by saying "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"This is interesting because…

…a picture without saying directly what the image is. This style of writing adds a unique mystery to the poem or story. Imagery is best used in nature, but it can also be used for describing inanimate objects. Many writers even use imagery to display something…

…on passion rather than reason, imagination rather than logic, and intuition rather than science. The Romantics were drawn to the medieval past, myths and legends, supernatural being, and nature. Keats led a very tragic life. His poems can often be related back…

…        "Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird" by Wallace Stevens is a poem about what it means to really know something. In this poem, Stevens shows this connection by writing a first person poem about a poet's observation…

…Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) Born to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath published her first poem when she was eight. Sensitive, intelligent, compelled toward perfection in everything she attempted, she was, on the surface…

…The first thought I come up with when reading Doolittle's Helen is the extreme difference between her poem, and Poe's poem, Helen. Doolittle and Poe both describe Helen using her face, eyes, legs, hands, and knees; however, Doolittle expresses…

…Compare the two poets' representations of and attitudes to nature in 'The Way Through the Woods' and 'Binsey Poplars'. ----------------------------------------------------------- These two poems, by Gerald Manley Hopkins and Rudyard Kipling…

…, this time from the voice of a fictional bishop on his deathbed. This approach functions well in the poem -- adding the excitement, intimacy and uncertainty that a simple narrative would lack while sustaining both the details of the subject and the theme…

…. It makes them make irrational decisions and not realize it until it is too late. Two works that highly support that jealousy causes people to do irrational things are Othello by William Shakespeare and a poem entitled “Jealousy” by Katrina A. King. A major…