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…jeopardizes her music career. In “Lysandra’s Poem”, written by Budge Wilson, Elaine decides to join the poetry contest, and Lysandra decides to dance with the boy Elaine liked. In each of the short stories, the main characters make choices that results…

…"The Flower" by George Herbert is an exuberant, joyful poem in which a single image of the spiritual life is expanded with naturalness and elegance that appear effortless. Herbert refines a style in which the writer tries to write honestly and directly…

…Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" unintentionally justifies his dead wife's actions. The husband in Browning's poem considered his most prized possession to be his wife. Like household objects the husband considered his wife to be no less then just an entity…

…wherever she goes, without worrying about yourself, because you trust her. The second section of the poem starts directly talking about your relationship with Jesus, in a similar style to the first section. It starts off by saying how Jesus was more than just…

…The topics of landscape and place and reverence for life are at the heart of many of Norman MacCaig's poems. By referring closely to setting, structure, word choice and literary techniques, I will discuss the extent to which I feel "Byre" fits…

…Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes are two of the most recognized African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel" and Langston Hughes' "I, Too" are comparable poems in that their similar themes are representational…

…Wordsworth begins his extended metaphor in the third line of the poem, with his speaker saying, "I saw a crowd, / a host, of golden daffodils" that were "fluttering and dancing in the breeze." (line 6). The speaker is attributing to these daffodils human…

…became renowned to write about; their poems are a stark contrast to that of Jessie Pope's "who's for the Game?" and Rupert Brooke's "Peace", two poems written to persuade men to recruit by emphasizing the ideas of heroism and chivalry, as they show a much more…

…"... And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes/ Its bowl of red blooms out of the sheer love of me..." This excerpt from Sylvia Plath's poem, "Tulips" describes how Plath's body would not give way, even though she feels as though her soul is dead…

…When you attempt to find a solution to any kind of problem, it is best to look at it from different perspectives. When two poems focus on a common theme with the same familial relationships, different points of view must certainly give great insight…