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A child has many interactions with different people throughout his/her life. A child learns to protect his siblings, to respect his mother, and to look up to his father. However, depending on what has happened between the child and the other person. In the poem “A Story” by poet Li-Young-Lee, he uses the third person…

The Silken Tent: Robert Frost – Summary and Critical Analysis In the verse form The Silken Tent the poet is comparing the collapsible shelter with the adult female whom the poet loved. The summer zephyr stirs the collapsible shelter and has dried the dew. When the dew has dried. the collapsible shelter becomes tight. And…

Margaret Atwood is Canadian, and expresses her anti- American sentiments through her poem, as she writes about the egocentric and reedy ways of humanity (though many right wing critics consider her to be too “left wing”). The poem focuses on our imperialistic ways, and although it was written in the sass’s about the sass’s, it…

  Determining a speaker or a setting with any certainty regarding Pablo Neruda’s poem, “Oda al tomate” is a challenging task. Neruda offers very little in the way of formal setting or narrative point of view in the poem. The best indication given in the poem about the nature of the poem’s speaker is the…

Human Interaction is The Importance of Life In the poem, “Summer Solstice, New York City,” by Sharon Olds, a man stands on the roof of a building ready to end his life. The man hung at the edge of the roof until things started to change for him. Many men went up to the roof…

Two of the finest of all William Butler Yeats’s poems, are his “The Second Coming” and “Sailing to Byzantium”. This discusses the similarities and differences between these two poems. It can be said that, while they differ in terms of tone, mood, meters, and rhymes, these two impressive poems are similar in terms of the…

In his poem “The Rose that Grew from Concrete”, Tupac Shakur introduces to us an instance in a life where despite the hard (concrete) circumstances and conflicts that one can be faced with, they can overcome and rise to their dreams Though this may be a rather short poem, it is strong and concise The…

In the first stanza of ‘Hitcher’ shows the reader that the narrator is seeking a more relaxed lifestyle, and is unable to deal with the arduous tasks of everyday life. He states that he had been ‘tired, under/the weather’, but not especially ill, and therefore should not be taking time off work. He ignores all…

Both poems, ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ and ‘From Father to Son’, are written from the perspective of sons who are coping with the death of their fathers. The poets have very mixed feelings about their fathers as both poems contain positive and negative opinions towards their close relatives. However, Emyr Humphreys…

To what extent is a focus on metaphor and symbol central to an analysis and understanding of Douglas Dunn’s poetry? (The Kaleidoscope/Sandra’s Mobile/Second Opinion) It is considered more difficult for a poet to grab the attention and imagination of an audience than it is for an author. The use of metaphor and symbol in poetry…