Love provides the underlying impetus and thematic content in many works of literature, especially poetry. In its various forms and expressions, love is the driving force of life, the magnetism uniting mother to child, lover to lover, friend to friend. However, love is not always portrayed as a liber...

In Helen Chasin's poem "City Pigeons" old people are compared to birds. To achieve in making this comparison make sense and be valid, Chasin make use of words that are normally associated with birds but uses them in a way that relates to old people as well. In fact, if you were to t...

As the subtitle suggests, Herman Melville honors the dead in this "Requiem", both blue and gray, who fought at the Battle of Shiloh, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. Melville writes a modernized poem for the time period and, both in tone and sentiment, Melville gives the fata...

Robert Frost's " The Road Not Taken " and " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening " are two short, yet very profound poems about the decisions/paths we choose to take in life. Although both poems depict the choices we make in life, they each have two very contrasting decisi...

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" and "The Oven Bird" Robert Frost's most recognizable quality is his use of natural imagery in his poetry. He is the epitome of a New England poet, using figurative language to paint an image in his poem for his readers. Whether it is a snowy fore...

One must analyze tone, metaphor, diction, imagery and alliteration to understand the meaning of, "To His Coy Mistress." Andrew Marvell uses all five tools to convey just how much passion the speaker has for his mistress, Marvell uses all five tools in very tactful ways to convey h...

What do you learn about Scouts relationships in the first three chapters of the novel? You should: · structure your work in 4 main paragraphs, each focusing on Scout's relationship with the characters · use plenty of quotations in each paragraph to support your points ·...

On the surface "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a poem about a man who is on a journey and comes to a fork in the road. He is faced with what seems to be a very casual decision about which way to go on his stroll in the woods. Should he go to the right or to the left? Is there a ...

In the Greek play Antigone, Sophocles develops the Chorus to demonstrate how its opinion is influenced by evidence presented. As the Chorus becomes aware of important details throughout the play, its opinion changes from being completely supportive of Creon; to being sympathetic toward Antigone; an...

Wallace Stevens and Religion This essay offers an explication of Wallace Stevens' poem "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman." Addressing "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman," the speaker proposes "poetry" as "the supreme fiction" (line 1) rather than God or religion. S...