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…depiction that appeals to one of the senses. Imagery is often an important tool as it enlarges and intensifies our sense of the poem thus contributing to meaning. This is especially so in Anne Sexton’s Consorting with Angels and Sylvia Plath’s The Applicant…

…, prominant puritan woman if Cambridge, Ipswich, and finally Andover. Apparently with her knowledge, her brother-in law carried to England a copy of her poems that she had made for family use and in 1650 saw to its publication there as “The Tenth Muse…

…The Raven Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven is a fabulous poem that is looked at by numerous students each year. This poem is a dark poem that has a sad tone to it. A man is “nearly napping”(l. 3) in his chamber when he hears a knock on his door…

…Many poems from the romantic period focus on feelings, nature, and the way the human mind works. In the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” John Keats focuses on all of those things. This poem is a good example of the ideas and works of the writers…

…Sonnet 130 The theme of the sonnet is beauty in that Shakespeare is comparing the eternal beauty of the subject to the beauty of nature. Shakespeare paints a picture using a combination of metaphors and a simile. He starts the poem with a simile…

…, a living that the speaker seems to be disgusted with. This poem was produced not to show the world that when a someone dies, people will grab his bed and toss it out the window, nor was it made to increase the WWF’s Undertaker’s popularity. It was made…

…Comparison of 2 Poems Mid Term Break by Seamus Heaney and Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day by William Shakespeare Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in a small agricultural town in county Derry. In 1957 he went to Queen’s University in Belfast…

…Longfellow and his Poetry These are many great poets. Longfellow is one of the few poets that put together novel type works. He created some of the best poetry ever written. Longfellow’s narrative poems, such as Evangeline, The song…

…uses ordinary speech, only words that will strengthen, and richness of sound to create effective poetry. The poem The Bean Eaters (see the included poems) is a fine example of all three of these key elements. First and foremost is the use of ordinary…

…and personification of death has become a common theme in poetry, but very few poets mastered it as well as Emily Dickinson did. Although most of Dickinson’s poems are morbid, a reader has no right to overlook the aesthetic beauty with which she embellishes her “dark” art…