A silent roundabout turning in an empty park Chases yesterday's shadows through the windy dark Their footsteps are but the rustle of dried out leaves 'Catch me! Catch me if you can! 'Was that the wind? 'Catch me if you can! ' I thought I heard someone call across the park Then some...
The world is cold withoutAnd dark and hedged aboutWith mystery and enmity and doubt,But we must goThough yet we do not knowWho called, or what marks we shall leave upon the snow. Q: In 'The Call' how does the poet present the speaker's feelings about her freedom and adventure? The...
the African American community and was one of the voices that community looked to for hope during civil oppression. In the poem, the negro the theme takes us from how the negro is treated in the world to how the Negro is treated in America. In his poem, The Negro Langston Hughes states...
“Tintern Abbey” is a poem about nature, but it is also a poem about the speaker’s past, present, and future selves, and about time and change more broadly. Ultimately, the poem suggests that the passage of time leads to loss, but that it also leads to greater understanding of self...
please be sure to respond to at least three writers. Oh, and a note about drafting: Since we are writing in short bursts, we all understand (and even welcome) the typos and partial poems that remind us we are human and that writing is always becoming. If you’d like to invite other...
The train is loud, but also weirdly compelling, like a leader or visionary—a prophet of a new world to come. Overall, then, the speaker doesn't quite know yet what to think about the train. It certainly inspires awe, even pleasure, but it’s subtly threatening, too. The speaker ...
Equality is in the air we breathe. (There’s never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this “homeland of the free.”) Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? And who are you that draws your veil across the stars? I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, ...
26. “Each of us must accept the end of life here in this world—so we must work while we can to earn fame before death.”― Beowulf 27. “And so he mourned as he moved about the world, deserted and alone, lamenting his unhappiness day and night, until death’s flood brimmed up ...
Death is a part of the poem but the turning point lies in line twenty-five, which states: "one day anyone died i guess". The main focal point is the uncapitalized "i", in analyzing poems I have begun to look at punctuation to tell me something about the author...
But, unfortunately, the purple light of the world up ahead had already grown brighter. It was a tough uphill trek from death back to life, and the whole way, I tried to will Orpheus to look backward. I was about to steal his poem from his robe when, at last, I had a flash of ...