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…I found Countee Cullen's poem "From The Dark Tower" to be very interesting. The title itself gave me the impression that the speaker is some type of night watchman who was possibly watching over a field but could have just as well have been a planter…

…into the girders that hold a skyscraper together. Take red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders. Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper together through blue nights into white stars. A formalist reading of the poem "Prayer of Steel" is a short…

…Minor response to "Softest of Tongues" Change is an inevitable part of our lives and sometimes accepting that change can be difficult. In the poem "Softest of Tongue" poet Vladir Nabokov expresses the burden of accepting change and saying goodbye…

…Half Past Two I will use the method of explaining every stanza to write about this poem in detail. 'Half Past Two' is a poem in which Fanthorpe describes how a young child is given a detention for an unspecified misdemeanour and is forgotten by his…

…"Traveling Through the Dark" <Tab/>by: William Stafford&lt The speaker in the poem must reflect on what to do about the dead does, he knows that in order to keep other ppl from hitting her & getting into an accident he must…

…The author of this text is the Australian poet Judith Wright. The title of this text is Woman To Man. The form of this text is a poem. The visual appearance of the text on the page indicates to us that it is a poem: it is positioned in the centre…

…Of Control Three of Emily Dickinson’s poems, “Because I Could Not Stop For Death”, “I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Die”, and “I Felt A Funeral In My Brain” are all about one of life’s few certainties: death. However…

…“Bit of a Jew”: Holocaustic Images in the works of Sylvia Plath While reading Sylvia Plath’s poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” one cannot help but be struck down by the prominent visual images and deeply emotional reflections both poems force upon…

…is meant by being alone? Some would describe being alone in a figurative manner, such as being with other people but feeling alone inside. While others would give being alone a literal definition, such as actually being isolated from other humans. In the poem…

…outlook on life before he can seek true happiness is one message this touching poem conveys. The poet, who is also a renowned rap artist, painter and actor, has many poems that touch deep into the hearts of men worldwide. His life was a legacy, being compared…