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grave which helps create a poem that covers all aspects of a person. The first stanza is addressed to ‘old men’ and how they should not simply slip away and die quietly, they should fight death until the end. Poetic techniques

Here, it is acknowledged that death is inevitable and introduces people as a whole dealing with death, an idea repeated in the following three stanzas before acknowledging the true audience of the poem. “Words” is defined as speech, but in this case seems to be metonymic for actions taken throughout life because there is more to life than speaking and writing. As a whole, a person’s actions speak

milk” can be divided structurally into two halves; the first three stanzas constitute the first half, and the last three stanzas make up the second half. Each stanza in the first half corresponds to a stanza in the second half. The first stanza describes the temperament of Nature, who is, above all, creative. This first stanza of the first half corresponds to stanza four, the first stanza in the second half of the poem. Stanza four divulges the nature of Time, who, unlike Nature, is ultimately

decision, but he won’t be able to do anything in the end because he is a realist. Although there are many stanzas, the most important stanza is about two roads and how he must make a choice, but he is unsure of which path he should take. Also, the poem develops in many ways through the attitude of each stanza because he is dwelling on which path he will take. Between the first stanza to the fifth stanza, it talks about how he is sorry for how he can’t take both roads and that life is forcing him to choose

The stanza establishes a form of isolation between the persona to the place that they live, as they believe that in this unknown territory, ‘[they] think / in a language of [their] own and talk in’ (Stanza 1, Line 4/5) those who lives in the territory. Almost every reader can relate to this theme of isolation as a common theme that a person would experience

poet. At the very beginning, the first stanza presents someone who has disappeared from this world. The second stanza tells us about a woman who has lost something or someone really important, and how this affects her emotional state. Later on, the poem goes deeper in the woman's feelings of desolation. In stanza five, the poem explains the journey taken by the woman, in order to find the body of her loss, ending up with the encounter to a witch. The next stanza clarifies that she has found Hades world

In the five-stanza poem, there are four lines in the first two stanzas; three in the next two, and the last stanza only has one line. Not all the lines are the same beat either, in the first stanza the first two lines have four beats and the next two lines have five beats. In the second stanza, the first line has three beats and the following three lines have five beats. The third stanza has three consecutive four beat meters, and the fourth stanza starts with three

is interesting to note that from the shepherd boy to the lamb to the bird all carry connotations of youth and vibrancy. As we see later on, this connection between youth and nature goes much deeper. The joy felt throughout this stanza is carried over into the fourth stanza where there is a such a vibrant celebration even the very earth is a part of it. During this celebration, he says that it would be an evil day if he were upset right now. This almost suggests that he is unhappy right now and is

both literally and figuratively. The poem begins with a serene description of the area where the sidewalk ends, where it is described to be bright and sunny with the wind blowing in the background, next to a bird resting on it. However, the next stanza of the poem starkly contrasts this serene image with a dark contrast of the sidewalk next to the end of it. In this area, it is dark and dismal, and “the dark street winds and bends”. However, from there, the street has arrows that point toward the

He ends the fourth stanza with a negative mood by using “you may forever tarry”. This phrase means that for the rest of your life you will suffer with loneliness if you don’t follow his commands. Herrick’s poem is in an ordered structure and has an alternate rhyming