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…On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High In his poem, “On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High”, the author, David Chapman Berry, has relied on metaphors and similes to carry out his view of a typical literature class and a teacher’s…

…Analysis of Blake's "The Lamb" "The Lamb," written by William Blake, is included in the work Songs of Innocence, published by Blake in 1789. In the poem, the speaker questions a lamb, asking it who made it and brought it to life. The speaker asks…

…I am going to compare three different poems: "My Box" by Gillian Clarke, "Valentine" by Carol Ann Duffy and "Shall I compare Thee...?" (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare. In my essay I will discuss the language, images, style, rhythm and many other…

…Dreamers Dreamers is a WWI poem that is about the soldiers rather than the war itself, the message of the poem is that soldiers although viewed as hated killers that kill innocent victims the poem expresses the fact that the soldiers are just like…

…Dreamers Dreamers is a WWI poem that is about the soldiers rather than the war itself, the message of the poem is that soldiers although viewed as hated killers that kill innocent victims the poem expresses the fact that the soldiers are just like…

…        There are many characteristics of the Beowulf poem that make it a significant part of the history of literature. It is a perfect representation of how the people in eighth century England communicated, what their feelings were…

…this, when the people started using science to explain what previous beliefs had based on religion. “Song”, “Holy Sonnet 10”, and “To His Coy Mistress”, all give a different but clear picture of what metaphysical and Carpe Dieme poems are, though not all of them…

…Robert Frost: His Life and His Poems Have you ever read a poem that deals with a broad aspect of life? Robert Frost wrote about this in his poem. “The Road Not Taken.” Frost uses descriptions of nature in a New England setting to open the readers…

…Lobsters Are lobsters similar to man? In Howard Nemerov’s poem Lobsters, there is a contrast made between the lives of lobsters to the lives of mankind. The speaker uses certain images to set up the reader for the implicit meaning of the poem…

…Comparing Mirror with At Grass At grass is a poem about retired horses. It explains that the horses are now relaxing in a field. They do not have to race as they once had to. They "stand at ease" The sibilance and alliteration in "summer by summer all…