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…. More so than fiction, poetry is almost entirely metaphor. W.H. Auden uses metaphor and motif in all of his poems to effectively convey his ideas. In particular, his poem “August 1968,” though brief, offers a scathing commentary on the events of the day…

…True beliefs Robert Frost’s “Minding Wall” is written natural, yet there are many things beyond the literal world of the poem that can be taken out of context. The poem is about two neighbors and a wall between them and both of them also have different…

…Apart, he had just read and thought about the poem written by William Butler Yeats. The book has many similar qualities and many of the things in the book symbolize objects in the poem. For example, the tribe becoming farther apart and widening of ideas…

…for the many years of hatred, they get eaten by a pack of wolves. In the poem “The Third Day of The Wolf”, a wolf enters a city in Canada. The is a huge three day man-hunt for the wolf. As the wolf runs scared, confused, and lost through the city, men…

…ran from the house, as he "saw the mighty walls rushing asunder" (1405). When the Ushers deteriorated, the house did too, until they eventually fell together. The poem "The Haunted Palace" (1397) makes the same connection between the house and its…

…In the epic poem of Beowulf, the audience is consumed by an enchanting tale of mystery and heroism. Many literary techniques contribute to the main character Beowulf. The imagery helps to add flavor to the epic poem. Throughout the story Beowulf endures…

…life and marriage. It also shows how her views change with time and circumstances. The poem starts with her early childhood, and then goes quickly into marriage, and ends when her husband has to go away on business. Never once does the poem mention love…

…        In the poems 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love' by Christopher Marlowe and 'Song' by C. Day Lewis, the speakers display their individual views of what can be expected with their love. Both speakers produce invitations to love…

…Carl Sandburg's Motif of Blood as a Symbol of Both Life and Death The image of the color red is presented in at least 25 of the poems of this collection. In some instances, red is a symbol of passion and life, but in others it is offered…

…One could say the speaker of "The Lamb" is a shepherd, as, shepherds traditionally tend to flocks of sheep. As seen in the poem, lines three through eight, the shepherd knows that they eat "by the stream & o'er the mead," what their wool feels like…