As in several of Lee's major poems, his father features strongly. "The Gift" focuses on a specific incident at a time when the speaker, as a child, is particularly sensitive and aware. The child feels threatened by the iron sliver; the father, by pulling it out, 'saves' his life. S...
In this stanza, the third of the poem, the speaker addresses the young boys as “gay and golden.” They are happy, optimistic, and at the height of their young lives. They have no idea that they are heading for “the grave.” There is nothing that can save them. Their destinies, wh...
Indigo Love Poem by Poetical AnalysisIndigo LoveAutoplay How does Europa's child Love the child of her mother How does Japeth & Shem Console their tattered brother As deep, as dark, as indigo dye Sad enough to snatch tear from cry One wailing cry for one wayward character A woman so ...
In the end, the poem returns to the serene scene of the nativity, where the Virgin Mary tenderly lays her child to rest. The heavenly bodies, represented by the star, pay homage to the newborn King. The poem concludes with a vision of angels surrounding the stable, reflecting the ...
This poem vividly describes the last moment of death experienced by the narrator, which is so true as if all these are experienced by the poet herself. The poetess boldly imagines and describes the process of dying and presents her vision of death. The narrator calmly lies in the bed ...
I felt compelled to react to the word, “slant”. “Slant”, has a great meaning in this poem for it is used in the beginning of the poem. Slant can mean a Get AccessRelated The Violence of Child Abuse in My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke The word choice in the poem creates a...
of down syndrome and instead of raising her, sends the nurse to give her away. Instead of dealing with the struggle of raising his daughter, he decides that the best thing to do is send her away and lie to hiswifethat the child died at birth. His strategy was to just avoid the ...
“Ode to the West Wind” is a poem written by the English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. According to Shelley, the poem was written in the woods outside Florence, Italy in the autumn of 1819. In the poem, the speaker directly addresses the west wind. The speaker treats the west ...
J. Alfred Prufrock constantly lived in fear-the fear of living and the fear of dying. Eliot divides his poem into three uniformly essential sections. The first section being the fear of living, the second section being the awakening, and the third section, the realization that it was all to...
At the start of the poem the speaker finds a chapel standing in the titular “Garden of Love.” A kind of takeover has taken place: the garden was once full of “sweet flowers” and made a fun spot for the speaker to play in as a child, but now is filled with tombstones and somb...