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famous poet, is well known for one of his poems “Do not go gentle into that good night.” The poem has six stanzas with three lines in all of the stanzas except the last one. In the poem, Thomas writes “about his father who was going blind and fighting impending sickness” (Zaslove). The deeper meaning is how people should live life to the fullest and fight to live when they grow old. In the first stanza Thomas writes “Do not go gentle into the good night” (Thomas 1), which sounds like a metaphor for something

Introduction: "Homo Suburbiensis" is as much a poem about the human condition, as it is a record of one man 's escape from the demands of his existence. "Homo Suburbiensis" uses one man 's escape from his demands to represent our universal need to contemplate and resolve our own uncertainties in life in our own special place. Dawe uses a series of imagery to depict the workings of our minds and a chain of unpleasent sensory experiences to illustrate unwanted intrusions in our lives. Through the vague

Accustomed To The Dark” Dickinson starts off the poem with “We grow accustomed to the dark//When light is put away” right off the bat she mentions how you get comfortable with the dark or depression when the light or happiness is put away. In the second stanza of her poem, she says “We uncertain step//For newness of the night” by this she’s saying how our first few moments are uncertain but eventually a step will be taken and that’s how we learn the dark. “Then – fit our Vision to the Dark –” In this quote

Headpiece filled with straw. These lines add to the image that Eliot creates in the first stanza of a scarecrow (or something similar). This, in addition the poem’s epigram, A penny for the Old Guy, is an allusion to Guy Fawkes, an infamous historical figure associated with the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605- traditionally, a straw effigy of Fawkes is burned on a bonfire each year on the fifth of November. The stanza is the first example of Eliot’s usage of descriptive language in his poetry, as well as

the Neighbor holds the Lamp / To witness her Good bye”, stanza 1 was interpreted as if you were sent out on your own for the very first time. Thinking as if your neighbor is standing on the top of the porch holding a lamp for you to see, as well as waving good bye. However in stanza 2, that abruptly changes. “A Moment - We Uncertain step / For newness of the night - / Then - fit our Vision to the Dark - / And meet the Road - erect” that stanza was approached as if once you keep going and going getting

Langston Hughes “use[d] stanza forms deriving from blues music” (Baym 1892). Traditional blues or jazz type stanza consist of a tercet with an AAa, BBb, CCc…rhyme scheme and demonstrating iambic pentameter. Hughes’ took this form and adapted it to his writing. For example, in “The Weary Blues,” six adapted blues tercets are noticeable. These tercets contain an AAb rhyme scheme and only a couple of the lines show iambic pentameter, but most lines range anywhere from 9-12 syllables. However, like other

In the last stanza of “One Art,” Elizabeth Bishop starts with a dash to portray her hesitation. Throughout the poem, she conveys small losses in her life and how they are simply part of her routine, but the interruption of the dash conveys how even though loss is common for her, it is still painful. This delay is then followed by an apostrophe, which indicates that the “you” is the loss that she is struggling to cope with. Bishop then brings even more attention losing love by placing “the joking

the nettles with the human quality of being ‘fierce’. This makes them seem like the enemy’s army which has been destroyed by the father. The poet ends the stanza using an enjambment to possibly show the continued struggles in his son’s life, leading the readers to connect emotionally to the father’s devotion to his son’s happiness. The final stanza revolves around the nettles retorting to the father’s attacks. In the first line, the father is shown to give the nettles a funeral. This shows the father

girlfriend, and she is “barely seen.” But reading farther along the poem, you come to a conclusion that the girlfriend and her animals are irrelevant. Nowhere else except the first stanza is the host’s girlfriend included; as for the animals being irrelevant in Joanna 's dream, another fictional animal comes into play in the sixth stanza. Looking back, when Joanna was offered the fictional animals, she miraculously “agrees to take a snake-dog.” After being offered, the poem shifts to a more scary or bad

Analysis of The Moose Elizabeth Bishop's "The Moose" is a narrative poem of 168 lines. Its twenty-eight six-line stanzas are not rigidly structured. Lines vary in length from four to eight syllables, but those of five or six syllables predominate. The pattern of stresses is lax enough almost to blur the distinction between verse and prose; the rhythm is that of a low-keyed speaking voice hovering over the descriptive details. The eyewitness account is meticulous and restrained. The poem concerns