George Manley Hopkin's poem, "Spring" is a sonnet. The poem deals with the rebirth of a soul. Hopkins writes his poem about the season of spring. Within the poem, Hopkins uses imagery as well as literary devices to portray his meaning. To begin, Hopkins uses quite a bit of allite...

"GOD'S GRANDEUR" Hopkins delivers a sonnet of fourteen lines jam packed with similes, rhymes, metaphors, and alliterations to explain how wonderful God is. The first line of the sonnet tells with authority what the entire poem is about. Hopkins uses the word "Charged;"...

Inversnaid is a very vivid poem. Hopkins involves sounds, descriptions and rhythms to portray the course of a Scottish river. The first verse is quite fast, like a stream, and the sounds are 'r's, 'c's and Ts. For example: 'The rollrock highroad roaring down' - this depicts the tumbling of the stre...

Confessional in spirit, viewing madness as a transforming force, Theodore Roethke\'s poetry explores the depths of the self, attempting to achieve wholeness through destruction. His verse is finely-crafted, full of stunning images and chant-like rhythms which echo the poetry of T. S. Eliot and Willi...

Yeats's Leda and the Swan and Hopkins's The Windhover incorporate birds to represent superior beings. With the use of their superior powers, the birds initiate violent attacks on the weaker subjects of their domain. The falcon circles high then swiftly swoops to attack his prey while the...

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Massachusetts, in 1830 and died in 1886. A shy, reclusive person, Dickinson has come to be known as one of America's greatest poets. Even though only seven of Dickinson's poems were published in her lifetime, her poetry was published after her death an...