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“The Lost Leader” is a poem written by Robert Browning in 1845. Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat – Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled…

The poet of the poem “The Planners”, Boey Kim Cheng, uses many techniques, including but not limited to an extended metaphor and personification, to effectively communicate his views on the planners. In the beginning of the poem, the poet states what the planners do. “They plan. They build. All spaces are gridded,” shows that the…

When Henry Constable attempts to describe his “lady”, he paints the reader an image of love, pureness, and of natural beauty. In his sonnet, “[My lady’s presence makes the roses red]”, Constable talks to the various body parts of his “lady”, claiming that they inspire envy into flowers and that his “lady” is in fact…

When one would finish reading Las Ruinas Del Corazon by Eric Gamalinda, the first reaction, amongst many others, would be disgusted. The most evident and common reaction from the readers would most likely be abhorrence and revulsion, or any response related to those. But why? What is it in this poem that causes these reactions?…

The world is constantly becoming an increasingly more dangerous place, and in this day and age, everything has a warning label. Whether it’s a hairdryer, a computer keyboard, or even a simple toy, all manufactured products and structures around us have a label stuck on the side to protect us. It seems as if at…

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…