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…The poem The Tiger, by the poet William Blake, is about the making of the tiger. William Blake was born in London in 1757 and died 1827. He was apprenticed to an engraver, but then he went into art and literature. When he was little he saw visions…

…Poetry has numerous meanings to people. Authors use various writing techniques to relate meanings of poems. According to Bedford/ St. Martin "Part of what makes poetry interesting is its indirectness, its refusal to state something simply as the way…

…Explication of “Dulce et Decorum Est” In his poem exhibiting the gruesome imagery of World War I, “Dulce et Decorum Est”, Wilfred Owen conveys his strongly anti-war sentiments to the reader. Through the irony found in the ending, horrific imagery…

…The Negro Speaks of Rivers: An Analysis Langston Hughes, a poet in the early twentieth century is known for his poems about urban life and racial affirmation. In the poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Hughes tells a story of the black man’s…

…“My dear and loving husband” Every woman is an individual with unique characteristics and therefore expresses her feelings differently toward her husband. The poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet shows a relationship of honesty, love…

…sensation produced by one of the five senses. Although the effects of imagery can be quite complex, the way that images work is simple. The author has many ways to do this throughout the poem, which is obvious in Ariel Dorfman’s image in the poem “Hope”. When…

…. Acclaimed New England poet Robert Frost wrote hundreds of poems in his lifetime. His poem “Acquainted with the Night” focuses on Frost’s depression and loneliness through a depiction of a late night journey. In this poem, Frost makes use of title, imagery…

…A wise man once said, “Nature in all its glory can be the deliverer of life or the destroyer of all that is good.” In the poem Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, nature takes up a major portion of the poem as Coleridge described the dream world…

…There are particular poems that seem to “catch peoples eye,” but while we read the poem we “drop our attention.” It is very difficult to evaluate these types of poems. Robert Hayden’s, “Those Winter Sundays,” is the complete opposite of the type…

…The poem Tableau (for Donald Duff) written by Countee Cullen, shows the friendship of two young boys, one black and the other one white as they walk down the street “locked arm in arm” (line 1). The colored “folks would stare” (line 5) and the white…