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lets compare the form of both poems, starting with “Spring and All”. This poem consists of 27 lines organized into seven stanzas. The first stanza is a sestet, the second and fourth are couplets, the third is a quintet and the last three stanzas are quatrains. “Spring and All” has no rhyming scheme as it is a free verse poem. “Winter-Solitude” on the other hand is a one stanza poem consisting of…

that the night Frost speaks of is not the absence of light we deal with when the sun goes down. In the first stanza, he lets the reader know that he has been through dark times and known great sadness. Sometimes he has gone through dark times alone as evidenced by his outwalking “the furthest city light” which means he had no human companionship on his long walk. This second stanza seems to imply that even when he saw good people who would want to know why he is walking in the dark (so to…

The diction William Yeats uses in The Song of Wandering Aengus helps communicate the melancholic lust of an unrequited love. The first stanza Yeats begins with a fast paced, positive. In his he depicts the flying of moths, but then next he goes on to compare moths to stars "moth-like stars were flickering", he states. Stars are considered to light the dark sky, and to be beautiful or create beautiful shapes. Moths are bugs however, bugs which come and swarm sources of light and can usually be…

A Soldiers Sacrifice in “They” and “Disabled” In Siegfried Sassoon’s “They” and Wilfred Owens “Disabled”, both poems describe the physical and emotional trauma that soldiers experienced in the trenches and on the battlefield. Those left on the home front did not understand the circumstances that the soldiers were under and were shocked when their boys came home suffering from “shell shock” and PTSD. “Social reactions to shell shock victims varied from sympathy or anger at the war to confusion…

Baraka uses the first two stanzas to establish the idea of omniscient powers, and the last stanza to establish reality. Ironically, the real aspects of the world are given hyperbolized characteristics, while the supposed being is showered in reality. The speaker only sees his daughter “peeking into her own clasped…

Still present in these poems are the poet’s fascination with death, the spiritual, ruination, and the natural. These poems capture the facets of Merwin’s 1960s style and the use of imagery. They are also presented in stanzas, which are irregular, but given the link between the stanzas, the poems suggest that an inverted sonnet was used by the poet. Also, the poems are characterized by persistent capitalization at the beginning of every line. This paper seeks to deeply discuss imagery as used in…

Keats uses imagery throughout the poem, the most memorable imagery included in the poem is in the last stanza. The last stanza is about how Autumn is passing by and a new season is approaching. This indicates mortality and death. The last stanza autumn was described as the end by the sun setting, small gnats mourn, soft-dying days, and light wind lives or die. The first line of the last stanza asserts that “where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?” (Keats, To Autumn, Line 23). It shows…

From Brock’s perspective, life is like a plum. The plum is desired by the speaker as the first half of the poem describes the beauty of a ripe plum waiting to be picked. In the first couple of stanzas it focuses on the simile of a plum. The plum is depicted as opulent and splendid. It represents the cycle of life and the passing of time. The poem mentions topics such as the passing of seasons and mortality. Brock’s verse addresses the idea that…

caused her the pain. To conclude, the theme of "Ode To You" is don’t give up on love because the narrator still wants love to happen again with this person she is talking about, even though she knows that it might not happen ever again. In the first stanza of "Ode To You," the author describes all the events that occurred in the time the narrator and this other person were together. Everyday she dreams about these moments, thinking that they are happening again. Then,…

“The Definition of Love”, the poet – Marvell describes the love he has for his lover. This Love is perfect, but he has just mind occupied, but never has possessed the body. Love is comparable to love God but for that very reason hopeless. In first stanza, the poet begins by comparing the three words: despair, hope and fate. All these are what define the love of the world. The beginning of this poem, the poet says that the love of a father, mother, poet rare and its aim is strange and sublime.…