Only once the world is quiet and the demands of the day have been set aside can the speaker find solace for their grief. That the silence "speak[s]" suggests that their dreams are a kind of communion with the dead, a chance to exchange words they can never again speak in waking life...
It's so quiet that it's freaking out the soldiers keeping watch, who nervously discuss the possibility of something finally happening. But nothing does. While on the lookout, we hear the wind frantically rattling through the barbed wire set up as defense around the trenches. It sounds just ...
The subject of this poem was loss because in many line of this poem it expressed that, in stanza two line four, “there was a mealy fragrance of the past,” which means that there hadn’t been anyone up where the millers would stay for work in quiet a long time. Another example ...
摘要: Focuses on the connection between poetry and learning. How the study of poetry replicates the way students learn and think; Explanation of poet William Matthews' comment on the appeal of poetry; Analysis of memorizing poetry.被引量: 8 ...
Nature:The Earth has always been a source of inspiration for poets, both today and in antiquity. Take“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver, which finds meaning in nature’s quiet rituals. Writing Exercises:Prompts and exercises can help spark your creativity, even if the poem you write has nothing ...
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with a passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my los...
They swoon down into so rapt a quiet That nobody seems to be there. ···The soul shrinks From all that it is about to remember, From the punctual rape of every blessèd day, And cries, ···“Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but...
Quiet i’ the kennel; taught that ocean might be blue, And rolling and much more, and yet the soul have, too, Its touch of God’s own flame, which He may so expand’Who measured the waters i’ the hollow of His hand’ That ocean’s self shall dry, turn dew-drop in respect Of...
while I enjoyed walking with my daughter and my husband on the Blue Ridge Parkway, which has been closed because of treacherous icy patches. There were two precious days of driving almost nowhere. Quiet. Walks. Beauty. So, yes, I’ve got photos to share, although it snowed so continuously...
By describing the quiet, constant chirp of these bugs across both seasons and sections of the poem, Keats underscores the idea that "the poetry of earth is never dead." “On the Grasshopper and Cricket” Speaker The speaker is more an observer than a presence in this poem. Besides a ...