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…Poetry is a part of literature, which must be read slowly and appreciated it for all it is worth. Although poems sometimes can seem vague or wordy, there are reasons behind this. Since most poems are relatively short in length, authors must choose…

…poems show a woman who is trapped within a family situation or is trying to get away from one. The feeling of being trapped is evident in the poem “The Jailor” This poem is a dramatization of female victimization. Plath was very unhappy in her marriage…

…Some people say that the movie The 13th Warrior is almost a replica of the poem “Beowulf.” The two stories resemble each other extremely, but also have many, many differences. The movie is an altered, more modern version of the poem. The book talks…

…Tiger and Lamb We often see many authors that write different poems with similar themes. Believing in something very strongly and passionately, these authors tend reflect this nature in their work. They reflect personal experience, either theirs…

…The simple word father can conjure up many images and emotions. A father can be a warm and joyful memory, or a dark and dismal one. Two poets confront these memories in Sylvia Plath's poem "My father and husband "Daddy" and in the poem by Theodore…

…Emily Dickinson's poems "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", "I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died", and "I Felt A Funeral In My Brain" all acknowledge one of life's undisputable phenomenon's, death. Much of Dickinson's work showed her interests in mortality…

…. It was written during the Crimean war. The war broke out when Britain and France feared Russia's ambition to spread it power southwards grew. "They rode back, but not the six hundred" I think that this is an important quote from this poem, which has been known…

…Literature, unlike a more exacting subject such as math, is open to several interpretations. There are no right or wrong answers - - just varying theories. The poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet is such a case. The poem…

…on to the reader. Langston Hughes also has the great ability to take a topic and spread it across multiple poems but make all the poems totally different. His poetry also has a beat to it that in some ways that is caused by his use of rhyme and style of writing…

…The phrase Out of the cradle endlessly rocking gives the notion that once you leave child hood, or the cradle, you are continuously moving, in a flux, in a sense endlessly rocking. This is a very good title to this poem because it gets to the point…