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woods or is he contemplating suicide? This poem seems so pleasant, but I believe it indicates a deeper concern to the theme of suicide. While analyzing the text, in the first stanza, the speaker in the ballad, locates us to where…

The speaker also states in line 4 that, depending on the whims of Fortune and Time, individuals may be “weeds among weeds, or flowers among flowers gathered.” In this analogy, it is highly possible that weeds represent the working class and the flowers the nobility, as weeds typically possess negative connotations whilst flowers are known to symbolize beauty. It is thus also interesting to note that the speaker mentions weeds before flowers, because he refers to Time’s love before Time’s hate in…

society. Dickson illustrates images that represent how torn she is about her performance as a woman. The poem begins with the lines “I felt a cleaving in my mind/ As if my brain had split” (1-2) creating a strong image of an intensive division that the speaker feels. She continues to say “I tried to match it, seam by seam, But could not make them fit” (3-4). When she is trying to match things seam by seam the reader is presented with an image of someone trying to match something such as a quilt…

ideas of uniformity and equality. The grass in this poem symbolizes various ideas that the speaker gradually explores, one of which being the idea of equality and uniformity. Men from all walks of life, black or white, young or old, when dead, will all equally nurture nature. The grass will use nutrition equally from all the people who were supposedly different and grow on their graves. In other words, the speaker is saying that all people are equal in the face of death and nature. Moreover, the…

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“Neutral Tones”: The Sinister Similarities of the Speakers The loss of a loved one is perhaps the most difficult experience that humans ever come up against. The poem “Porphyria’s Lover”, written by Robert Browning, adds a sense of irony to this. At the most superficial layer, the speakers in both “Porphyria’s Lover” and “Neutral Tones”, written by Thomas Hardy, both deal with loss. The tones in “Neutral Tones” seem to be indifferent, or Neutral. The speaker of “Porphyria’s Lover” ends up…

In Amanda Jernigan’s poem “Exclosure”, the speaker delivers the message that writing is a process of capturing and protecting the composition from being exposed to critiques or misinterpretations. The speaker is alarmed at the thought of her poem growing out of control and no longer in her discipline, therefore she creates a sanctuary to deny the poem exposure and vulnerability to an audience. The speaker is aware that each time a poem is read, it takes on new interpretations and meanings and it…

appearance and life circumstances the speaker demonstrates an abnormal mixture…

The Weakness of Death “On Death, Without Exaggeration” by Wislawa Szymborska is an observation of Death by a third party. The speaker is discussing how little power Death has in a life. Many people feel that death is omnipotent and they have no power over this. The speaker is using evidence seen over many years to show the reader that Death is not an all powerful entity. Death is the same awkward truth in life just like it was when the world first began. Szymborska uses persona, personification,…

constricting and burdensome to keep. Freedom is considered lost through the moral obligation of a commitment when the poem states how, “If you promised, you might grieve for lost liberty again.” These short stanzas reflect upon old, brighter days as the speaker considers…