Wilfred Owen's poem 'Exposure' explores the trauma and suffering soldiers experienced on a WW1 battlefield within 24 hours. Using personification, metaphor and pararhyme within a cyclic, repetitive structure, Owen creates a powerful atmosphere that chall
Li-Young Lee's "The Gift" is an atmospheric poem that focuses on the relationship a child has with his father by contrasting two similar scenarios from his life.
‘The Badger’ by John Clare is a narrative poem that portrays the cruelty and danger that animals face in the natural world.When midnight comes a host of dogs and men Go out and track the badger to his den, And put a sack within the hole, and lie Till the old grunting badger ...
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...
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 with...
Church-bells beyond the stars heart, the soul's blood. The land of spices, something understood. The poem contains no complete predicate. Much of Dickinson’s poetry, like baroque poetry and prose, moves by a sequence of “points” and paradoxes reveal[ing] the energy of a single apprehensi...
unsettled by new ideas, and the student of a modern University who has been the subject of a similar 'aufklarung.' We too observe that when young men begin to criticise customary beliefs, or to analyse the constitution of human nature, they are apt to lose hold of solid principle (Greek)...
With this line, Shakespeare is playing on the two meanings of the word “grave.” It is tragic and ironic in these circumstances. Mercutio has been stabbed by Tybalt and as he’s dying, he refers to him as a “grave man,” or someone who is soon going to end up in his grave. He...
a month for the sole purpose of procreation, they are now in a place where its very risky to be seen. But they are there at the C... premier Margaret Atwood's Poem 'Spelling' understand our world and as we seek to communicate with that world. As the poem progresses we surely ...
it is almost devoid of emotion entirely. The opening stanza gives a preview of thepoem‚ its devoid of emotion‚ we have no relation to who has died‚ and no name given to make a connection or sympathize. The line “It was a CommonNight/ Except the Dying” shows that the world ...