William Blake's poem, "The Poison Tree", states the basis of morality in its simplest form. Blake takes one of the toughest emotions there is to deal with-anger, and blends it with the convicting power of Christianity. The proof lies in the first stanza, "I was angry with my f...

The third glimpse at Keats's craftsmanship comes through his mastership at yet another poetic form: the ode. In his poem " Ode to Autumn" , Keats praises the season overlooked by most people: Autumn. In the first stanza, the reader gets a vivid picture of the landscape by Keats focusing mainly on v...

An appreciation of the poem-To Autumn The three stanzas of the poem present us a lively picture from the aspects of taste, vision and hearing respectively. In stanza one, the author gave us a gustatory feast of autumn with some representative image, such as apple-bended moss'd trees, the grap...

John Keats once said about Lord Byron, "He describes what he sees - I describe what I imagine, mine is the hardest task." "To Autumn" is evidence of his way of thinking, as the poem is a vivid, lyrical portrayal of the English autumn, as he imagined it. The poem is written on a...

"If lecherous goats...cannot be damned, alas, why should I be?" The poet of the Holy Sonnets John Donne, uses certainty as well as an impulse towards talking to God "the lord" and creator of the universe. The poem presents the theme of guilt and being "damned" as Donne ...

"The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads). Discuss. Wordsworth argues in his 1802 preface to Lyrical Ballads that "poetry should be written in the natural language of common speech, rather than in the lofty and elaborate dictions th...

ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE As one reads this poem of John Keats, the overwhelming feeling is the envy the poet feels toward the nightingale and his song. He compared the carefree life of the bird to the pain, suffering and mortality of men. He continually referred to Greek gods and mythology when s...