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“Hunting Snake” written by Judith Wright and “Pike” written by Ted Hughes are two poems about nature and animals. Hunting Snake has four stanzas and Pike has eleven stanzas. The animals in the Hunting Snake and Pike seem to be similar animals as they hunt in similar ways by being slow, quiet and pouncing to surprise the animal. Both of the poets write about their encounters with hunting animals, a hunting snake and a pike fish. Judith writes about a “big black snake” in nature hunting like in…

While Anne Sexton and Robert Fagles were both inspired by the Van Gogh painting The Starry Night, they execute their ideas into two similar yet very different poems. Primarily, despite the fact that both poems are named after the same painting, the subject, their experiences, and the speaker of each poem are different. Additionally, both poets stimulate the reader’s senses through different images to evoke a similar gloomy atmosphere and convey the theme of death and madness. Thus, Sexton and…

Poetry has always been a vital part of humanity’s history. It shares a piece of the past while also showing the poet’s skills. One famous female poet of the past is Anne Bradstreet. Anne Bradstreet holds a reputation of being the first female poet acknowledged as a successful New World Poet, an admirable position. Although she wrote many reputable poems in her time, she had to endure the gender bias as a woman. Some of her beliefs were rejected since they were still new to her era. Despite the…

this because the title concludes that something happened with the word “because”. I feel like the author avoided death so long, that it pursued her. The poem could also be about all the times she was close to Death but never accepted Death. Emily Dickinson was born December 10th 1830. Throughout her life, she seldom left her home and visitors were few. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an enormous impact on her poetry. She is known for her poignant and compressed…

As there are many impressive and impactful poets out there, Emily Dickinson is to be known as the most awe-inspiring and unique poets of all time. She was known for her actions of opposing the rules of poetry and made poetry into her own style. Even though her life was not full of excitement and pleasure, she organized her poems in a radical and far-reaching manner. Generally now, she is recognized for her death-related poetry; although, she also surrounded her poems with the spiritual mind,…

mostly by the poets of her own time and also by her reading of the Book of Revelation. Her desire for intimacy also helped her produce some of her most notable poems. Sources say that “In her early years Dickinson was mostly influenced by Leonard Humphrey, the principal at her school,…

devices.. The various poems and story, showed how the early Dark Romantics saw death as a gentleman or kind spirit. Others saw death a form of fear or the wrath of the devil himself. In the poem “Because I could stop not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson, the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, and the story “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, all use rhetorical strategies of English text to convey their views of death. There are many different interpretations of death, such as…

all in one’s head, or in the “Evenings of the Brain.” The lines also say that these darkness can become bigger without any light and hope such as the “Moon” or the “Star.” But in the next stanza, Dickinson declares that the “Bravest” look and wave their hands in the darkness, looking for a path. Dickinson continues by pointing out that the “Bravest” can bump into a “Tree.” This signifies that the “Bravest” can come face problems in their dark path. But they will “learn to see”though the problems…

Emily Dickinson’s poetry in Brooks and Cixous theories Emily Dickinson is considered one of the greatest female poets to live during the 19th century. We read Emily Dickinson’s poem(s) because her work is short and very detailed. Her topics tend to be on subjects that are presented in the masculine world but she brings her own opinion to them. One of the main themes is her observation of what is around her by using tone in her work. In most of her poetry, she never titles her work with titles…

Poetry is the key to many different emotions. A poem can cause many different feelings and memories, both good and bad, to bubble to the surface of our minds. Readers use poems to find a simple piece of artwork they can relate to, however are usually unprepared if it hits too close to home. Elizabeth Bishop, poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, had a difficult early life when growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her father passed away when she was at a young age, and her mother admitted to…