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once again. The first stanza is about her longing to be with the lover. The second stanza is the biggest shift and the climax, the speaker has reached her limit. The speaker is frustrated that they cannot be with the lover and is at breaking point. However, the third stanza relates back to the first by longing for the lover once again. Emily Dickinson’s self-reserved, recluse lifestyle was influential in “Wild Nights-Wild Nights”, as she uses metaphor, imagery, and stanzas to show her passion in

the woman as the poem indicates in the first stanza “She says :”(Line2) and “She insists” (Line4) also mentioned in the final stanza “She says” (Line8). Therefore, this suggests that they are communicating with each other. As the poet writes this

century societies, with the use of literary devices. Firstly, the four-stanza poem begins, in first-person narration, with an exposition of the speaker’s first kiss at the age of five as an act of force and objectification by a young boy. The speaker illustrates their experience as they were held down by their arms in the lines 3-5: like the handlebars of the first bicycle he ever rode The use of simile, in the first stanza, allows the comparison of the speaker, at the age of five, to an ordinary

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

first three stanzas Hardy reminisces about a memory he has with a past loved one. During the last stanza, Hardy reflects how the relationship shaped him. The speaker is aggravated mentally by the disappointment of love, believing that things were once beautiful.  He is devastated and frustrated when love perishes and feels deceived by the sweet promises love had to offer. In the first stanza, Hardy compares his dying relationship to his surroundings. He sets the tone during this stanza as melancholy

Angelou relies on metaphor and juxtaposition to convey her theme. Through this, she focuses on comparing two birds--one that is free and one that lives in a cage. Throughout the poem itself, the only forms of punctuation come at the very end of the stanza, signalling it as a continued thought. This mimics the often light-hearted nature of birds, as they have the freedom to do as they please. The freeverse of this poem further develops this, as while the narrator chooses to repeat some structures and

their notice and were disturbed. The form of visual imagery is presented in the third and fourth stanza, “There interposed a Fly--/With Blue--uncertain stumbling Buzz--/Between the light--and me--” (12-14). The reader visualizes the fly roaming around the room, and the light can mean the light of a window, lamp, or possibly the light at the end of the tunnel towards death and the afterlife. In the last stanza, the speaker states, “And then the Windows failed--and then/I could not see to see--” (15-16)

equality, caring for and helping each other.             The first technique Cullen uses to show his theme is the structure of the poem.  “Any Human to Another” is made up of five stanzas:  the first and

STANZA 1 It was midnight, while he sat there nearly asleep, contemplating on something that made him dismal, and sorrowful, he heard someone knocking on his door. STANZA 2 It was a dreary December as he sat there watching the ash from the fire on the floor, he wished that he could change the fate of his angelic, love, Lenore, to a happy one, as in a book. STANZA 3 The purple curtains reminded him of Lenore, and reminded him of the same terror he felt when she died, as he was hesitant to open the

In the first stanza of the poem, Swells, Ammons makes a connection between swell and memories. Swell is the vehicle and is use as a way to describe the substance of a particular memory. Memory plays a role as the tenor. The speaker believes there is a correlation in terms of the size of the “Swell in the ocean” with the importance or impact of the memory; as the swell increase in size, so will the memory significance. The stanza then goes on to create an image for readers with the words, “Information