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This book report was done for S.E. Hinton’s novel, THE OUTSIDERS. In my essay, I explore the quote, “stay gold” and it’s meaning. I used a poem that was in the novel to express this topic (the poem is by Robert Frost). What it basically is about is the cycle of life. I have just…

The visual imagery present in this composition is very detailed and conceals hidden messages through metaphors, that in general are negative a nd nihilistic. The speaker also utilizes personification and other forms of figurative language to display the grim reality of impermanence. In the wake of this idea of impermanence the speak er emphasizes the…

INTRODUCTION             Sharon Olds  is a famous poet of modern times who writes her poem with themes , usually personal, with great intensity that explore violence, sensuality, family and the physical body. She was born in San Francisco in 1942 and grew up in Berkeley, California.  She studied in Stanford University and got her Ph….

In Edna St Vincent Millay’s Petrarchan sonnet “What lips my lips have kissed”, the speaker talks about past lovers that are in her life no more. Millay uses a variety of poetic devices such as, imagery, tone, and metaphor. She uses imagery of pleasure, intimate love, and nature. Her tone alters throughout the poem from…

Examining “Making A Fist” Nye employs visual imagery to convey the message that living life to the fullest requires confidence. In lines 4-6, Nye describes her experience as a child, stating, “I was seven, I lay in the car/ watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass.” Through these powerful images, Nye enables…

William Blake, born on November 28, 1757 in Westminster, was a romanticist poet who wrote poetry during the Industrial Revolution. He primarily lived in London and started his career as an engraver at fifteen years old. Interestingly, his poems were accompanied by engraved pictures in each original print. Later on, he built his own engraving…

Choose a poem in which the creation of mood or atmosphere is an important feature. Show how the poet creates a mood or atmosphere, and discuss its importance in your appreciation of the poem as a whole. A poem which I recently studied was Box Room by Liz Lochhead. This poem focuses on the recount…

Literary Analysis of “The Names” by Billy Collins In the poem “The Names” by Billy Collins many words are used to paint vivid images of themes of war and sorrow-filled family members of soldiers lost in Vietnam. In literature, words are all that an author has to express their feelings and memories. Sometimes words are…

When every pencil meant a sacrifice his parents boarded him at school in town, slaving to free him from the stony fields, the meagre acreage that bore them down. They blushed with pride when, at his graduation, they watched him picking up the slender scroll, his passport from the years of brutal toil and lonely…

“There will come soft rains” is both the title for the short story by Ray Bradbury and the poem by Sara Teasdale and the poem is embedded in the short story. The poem and short story were written in 1920 and 1950 respectively, shortly after WWI and WWII. Thus it is not surprising that both…