"To a Skylark" 
.... The effect of the
bird is beneficial to mankind, and the
poet believes that this is the effect of art in all cases, even his own art, limited when compared to ....
(488
2
)
Poems by Shelley & Keats
.... In the latter case, the song of the
poet has a different tone from the song of the
bird--the joy of the
bird becomes a contemplative song for the
poet. ....
(1591
6
)
"Ode to a Nightingale"
.... Throughout, Keats uses imagery derived from nature to evoke relationships to the
bird and the song of the
bird, and as he does so he (the
poet) sinks further ....
(505
2
)
Richard Wilbur's poem "The Writer"
.... It is a
bird which has brought this jaded
poet back to his daughter and to writing. Again, the final stanza clarifies the discovery made by the
poet. ....
(857
3
)
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
.... element in terms of the linguistic effect of the work, for this
bird is able to utter only one word, an echo of the hopelessness of the
poet: Each reiteration ....
(1530
6
)
Imagery & Subject Matter in 2 Poems
.... from the tree, and this image of the crow rising up evokes the image in the
poet's mind of a shape rising up. Roethke now sees a tremendous
bird moving further ....
(1161
5
)
The End of the Raven
.... came into the
poet's study from the point of view of the
poet's cat, making its way around the floor and dreaming of leaping on and eating the intruding
bird. ....
(460
2
)
Richard Wilbur
.... In the memory of the
poet, the father and daughter once shared an understanding of the trials of the starling and shared in the
bird's triumph when finally it ....
(1618
6
)
Two Poems by William Blake
.... The
poet sees the child as being separated from nature, and he makes this clear through a comparison of the school-boy to a
bird in a cage: How can the
bird ....
(1388
6
)
Anne Sexton's Poem, Cinderella
.... man who sang songs in "black face." In this manner, the
poet connects the .... something that is reinforced in the seventh stanza when the
bird drops Cinderella a ....
(1215
5
)
Romantic Poets and Poems
.... The killing of this
bird is a crime, and much of the poem is then taken up .... a dream vision and is incomplete because the dream was never completed by the
poet. ....
(974
4
)
"There's No Frigate Like A Book"
The
poet used the vehicle of books to explore other worlds than her own .... However, another lesser-known meaning for frigate is a sea-
bird that cruises close and ....
(1324
5
)
Maya Angelou
.... autobiography, beginning with I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings and .... cook, calypso dancer, actress, madam, civil-rights activist, filmmaker and presidential
poet. ....
(1346
5
)
Poems about Religion
.... It is also a way of articulating despair, and the
poet watches Shiva assume solitary .... creative principle, which has the image of a new nest of
bird's eggs out ....
(2185
9
)
Keats and De Quincey and Austen
.... A similar images of escape from the self into the flight of a
bird is found in "Ode to a Nightingale" as the song of the nightingale causes the
poet to want to ....
(1085
4
)
Life & Works of Edgar Allan Poe
.... rapping" on his chamber door; it is the raven, "ghastly, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous
bird of yore." To each expression of the
poet's hopes and dreams ....
(1783
7
)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
.... As Whitman (4-5) writes of the boy informing the
bird, O you singer .... Cradle Endlessly Rocking" in order to demonstrate the emotional maturation of a young
poet. ....
(689
3
)
Maya Angelou's Biography
.... course of the autobiographies, focusing on I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings. .... of stamps, Arkansas was transformed into Maya Angelou, author and
poet who achieved ....
(1487
6
)
Five Odes of Keats
.... through envy of thy happy lot, / But being too happy in thine happiness" (Stanza 1, Lines 5 6). The
bird's song has awakened many complex emotions in the
poet. ....
(4416
18
)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
.... once again blame the mariner for his senseless killing of the good
bird. .... The
poet show considerable skill by transferring the Christ symbol from the Albatross ....
(655
3
)
Corso and Rich
.... In Adrienne Rich's Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law we have another
poet who is attacking .... At one point she likens the female soul as a
bird in a locked cage ....
(3228
13
)
Two Poems by Whitman
.... mourning gull and the rhythm of the waves his urge to become a
poet. .... As Whicher observes, "The
bird's story is Whitman's story, distanced and disguised, but it ....
(3596
14
)
Maya Angelou's essay "Graduation in Stamps"
.... is a portion of her autobiographical work I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings. .... She has had a career as author,
poet, professional stage and screen performer, and ....
(1612
6
)
Death Portrayed in Romantic Poetry
.... As the speaker exclaims, "Thou was not born for death, immortal
Bird! .... from the effects of time, which seemed the only ideal state to the
poet." These two takes ....
(2508
10
)
Two Works of Art of the Sung Dynasty
.... was sometimes considered as the greatest master of the Sung "flower-and-
bird" school in .... Seen in this light, the tilt of the
poet's head and his open, perhaps ....
(2058
8
)
Walt Whitman's Concept of Death
.... two together" (388), along the shore building a nest: One forenoon the she-
bird crouch'd .... Walt Whitman the
poet is born: And with them the key, the word up from ....
(3255
13
)
Edgar Allan Poe Preoccupation with Death
.... of time and death is expressed in the poem "The Raven," where the
poet emphasizes that the events described take place at midnight when the black
bird appears. ....
(2027
8
)
The Poems in White Pine by Mary Oliver
.... The child pecks like a
bird, "his eyebrows are like the feathers of a .... of these details is deliberate and they are given during the
poet's direct observation of ....
(3519
14
)
Coleridge's Literary and Dramatic Criticism
.... power of human reason is either suppressed by the
poet's imaginative manipulation .... to understand that the mariner "inhospitably killeth the pious
bird of good ....
(3135
13
)
The Book of Sand (Borges)
.... Mystics invoke a rose, a kiss, a
bird that is all birds, a sun that is the sun .... In this tale, a king enlists the aid of a
poet to render his deeds in words in ....
(3520
14
)
