Spenserian stanza

smile. Love poems about loss are pieces of mourning and wailing. However, John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” does not fall into this cliched trap. Instead, Donne provides something genuine for his readers to dissect and ingest from the stanzas with varying contents. He also includes language that may be interpreted as sexual while saying that their relationship transcends the physical. “A Valediction” provides information on how Donne sees romantic relationships as well how poetry treats

Emily Dickinson’s poetry arose during a time of much deep questioning going on in the literary world. Many of her poems lend themselves to various interpretations, as Dickinson looks at the world through a variety of perspectives. Dickinson wrote concisely and broke the traditional rules of writing poetry, and in doing so often wrote in one way but meant something entirely different. Poem 340, or “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” is one of these such poems that has no clear answer and is ultimately

identity such as braces and ashy knees. Suddenly, she is contemplating about serious concerns like death. In the first stanza, she states that she is in love with an immature boy who still sucks his thumb in private,worried about her skin condition as her skin has “betrayed her,” and worried about dying when she says, “what if I die/before morning” (Line 8-9). In the second stanza, she goes on to tell us that she feels inadequate from a social perspective. She says that she wants to learn to dance

also how his education often attempts to strike fear away. “If you were not afraid you would kill him”. Lawrence further endeavored away from the “traditional reaction” by feeling “honoured still more/ That he should seek my hospitality”. 2. In stanza 12 of the “Snake”, D.H. Lawrence describes with great lucid detail the god-like

order to find hope in the present. The title of the poem implies that the home of characters is not a place where anyone would want to spend their life. When the north is described as the “poor north,” in both the title and at the end of the first stanza, it makes it seem as though it is an established fact, recognized by anyone who has visited or lived there. The description is solidified when the speaker says, “nothing goes right” in the “poor north” (5). A bad experience must have occurred in

whites of having to show restraint. “Gain”, gives a connotation of accusing satirically towards the non-Europeans. In other words, the Europeans believe that they are showing restraint and are able to “gain” by helping the “Half-devil”. This next stanza

of reading a poem. The first opinion, which is advocated in the first five stanzas, is of the poet or teacher who describes how he would like readers to read the poem. The second opinion, which is condemned in the last two stanzas, is of the readers and students who want to find out as quickly as possible what the poem means. Throughout the poem, there is heavy use of metaphor for “poem”. For example, in the first stanza, “I ask them to

an idea about what to do or create: a force or influence that inspires someone. (Online) Inspiration in poems can decide whether a poem is average or great. While reading “For Poets” Young is very inspiring, and he helps build self-esteem in his stanzas. Being inspiring that means you are caring, and are passionate about people. Young gave examples throughout his poem: “Stay beautiful.”(1) Be loyal to who you are,

After reading My Last Duchess and My Ex- Husband, there were more similarities than there were differences. My Last Duchess was about a jealous Duke that ended up killing his wife because he thought she was cheating with the man who painted the portrait of her that is hanging on his wall for only him to see. In My Ex- Husband, the poem is about a woman who writes about how much she hates her ex, though cannot seem to move on from his mistakes of cheating. Both of these poems demonstrate poetic

American woman who wrote about freedom for her people. The best example would be her famous novel and poem “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.” The book is about her life struggles and the poem is a metaphor about a bird that seeks freedom. The final stanza of the poem reads “The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.” This excerpt of the poem demonstrates how she yearned for her people