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In all three poems from Percy Shelley, he brings up that you can learn from things that you typically wouldn’t think you can learn from. He points out that you can learn from ruin cities, to wind, to even birds singing. Each of his poems has a message behind them whether it is not to be so full of yourself and stay humble or even learning from a bird that is singing a song. Throughout all of Shelley’s poems, Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, and To a Skylark, Shelley wants to point out that no…

William Butler Yeats use of pastoral poetry in his poems Lake Isle of Innisfree and Easter 1916 his use of this type descriptive language evokes the reader to imagine a rural Irish life rich in folklore and fairytales. Yeats’ also urges his reader to envision life in the picturesque world, he used this style of writing to bring about a feeling of nationalism but with the preservation of Irish history. In the poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, Yeats uses pastoral imagery to describe the Western…

Setting: The Garden Party was written in 1922, shortly after the end of WW1. The story is set mostly in the garden of the Sheridan’s house which is based one the author’s childhood home in Wellington, New Zealand. The first part of teh story is set in a festive, light mood on a “perfect day.” (Mansfield 1) The sky is described as “without a cloud” (Mansfield 1) futher representing the light mood which seems to take away all your worries. In contrats, the second half of the story is set in the…

The poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden is a short lyrical poem that tells a particular story about the relationship between a father and son. Though the poem is filled with complex emotions, the simplistic language of the poem brings out the great use of imagery and alliteration that drawls out the density in each line. This poem is about two people, a son and a father. The son is recalling back to his adolescent years and his tough relationship with his father. The son, as a boy, did…

One of my exceptionally most loved spots to go in my extra time is the shoreline. A shoreline is a national geographic nature made landform that is almost a waterway. It normally comprises of free particles, which are as often as possible made out of sand, rock, shingle, stones, or cobblestones. The particles living on a shoreline are every so often natural to the causes, for example, mollusk shells or coralline green growth. Shorelines normally show up around territories along the drift where…

The poem “No Longer A Dream But Reality” by Rylee Bishop is about an event that happened in the speakers life a long time ago. The speaker seems to think that she has a lot of time with her lover, only to realize later that the time they had together was short lived. The poem takes on a reminiscent tone as the speaker reflects with their lover. As the reader, we read about how the speaker longs for their lover’s sweet embrace and their kiss on their lips. (Bishop, 4). There’s a lot of visual aid…

In attempts to enlarge the meaning of life, literary rhetoric of the Renaissance allowed for development of one’s personal understanding of the universe through metaphorical devices. By associating the subject or theme to the universe effectively enhances it to a greater scale, drawing focus to a poet 's underlying message. In John Donne’s sonnet “The Good-Morrow,” the speaker relates love to a microcosm of the universe. The poem is an expression of love through physical and spiritual metaphors…

The Cremation Of Sam McGee was written by Robert Service and published in 1907. Robert Service was living in the Yukon during the 1896 gold rush when the wrote “The Cremation Of Sam McGee” and the poem was published 1907. The first stanza of the poem stages a setting for the piece. The speaker makes it very clear that the poem takes place where the sun shines all day and all night, where men work very hard in search of gold. In this first stanza, the speaker addressing that this is a place…

A poem exhibiting an extended metaphor clarifies the two objects that are being compared by using figurative language and other writing techniques. “Nature,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is an example of this type of poem as it compares mother nature and a human mother as caretakers of humanity. Through explicating this poem, it is easy to see the theme that death is inevitable and that nature brings people to rest just as a mother leads her child to bed after a long day; Longfellow uses…

Most people are successful because they are passionate about their work; however, some are not and it has shown negatively. Robert Frost demonstrates when people are in tune and out of tune with their work. Many distractions or attractions may encounter while doing the job. In the poems, "Mowing", "A Tuft of Flowers”, and "Out, Out" work ethics varies on the perspective and mindset of the person. Two out of three of the workers are in tune with their work. The cause of them to have great work…