Images in Poetry
.... one addresses is a lover, and love, life, and death are intertwined in this poem in a complex fashion that is aided by the imagery of the
poet speaking to a ....
(726

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Effect on Readers of Different Types of Writing
.... The conversational tone of the poem creates a sense of reality causes the reader to accept that the
poet is
speaking the truth as he perceives it, which is all ....
(855

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)
"Thoughts on the Works of Providence" (Wheatley)
.... The style is so grand that it makes the reader feel that the
poet is
speaking down to him or her, even sermonizing, as if the
poet had a closer relationship ....
(1132

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)
Metaphysical Poet Andrew Marvell
.... days are past the best, Simply I credit her false-
speaking tongue; On .... Shakespeare was primarily an Elizabethan
poet, meaning that he reflected the prevailing ....
(2544

10

)
The Story of an Hour
.... could have been created. 3. The punctuation shows that the
poet is
speaking to the tiger with insistence. The repetition shows the ....
(2043

8

)
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
.... could have been created. 3. The punctuation shows that the
poet is
speaking to the tiger with insistence. The repetition shows the ....
(2105

8

)
Crime Against Nature
.... beginning with the statement that "I wanted to believe/ As a fawn wanders into the meadow without fear," but almost immediately the
poet is
speaking as the fawn ....
(2327

9

)
"Reversibility" by Baudelaire
.... This particular poem, coming as it does in the virtual center of the entire collection, suggests that the
poet is still
speaking to a specific person an ....
(1061

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"Fern Hill"
.... The
poet is now
speaking from the present and not from memory, though the echo of that memory lives on in the regret and sorrow that the man feels remembering ....
(1325

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)
Chicana poet Pat Mora's "Elena"
The Chicana
poet, Patricia (Pat) Mora is known for her poetry dealing .... be drawn between Elena's ignorance of English and an English-
speaking parent's knowledge ....
(1128

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)
The Shakespearean Sonnet
.... The reader now learns for the first time that the poem has been written to a specific individual to whom the
poet is
speaking and that there is one way human ....
(1677

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)
Poems by Shelley & Keats
.... syllable emphasizes the word "Hail" in the first line and the idea that that is precisely what the
poet is doing--hailing the bird and
speaking directly to it. ....
(1591

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)
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
.... The subject is that choice and the difficulty in making it, and the
poet is
speaking here not merely of a choice of real roads but a choice of metaphorical ....
(2441

10

)
William Shakespeare in "Sonnet 18"
.... in "Sonnet 18"--"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"--speaks as the
poet observing the beauty of the person to whom he is
speaking, and inherent in this ....
(588

2

)
"I Am Ready to Tell All I Know"
.... The
poet is
speaking as one who is riding the train coming into Times Square station, and in the opening stanza he uses words that evoke that event as an action ....
(3762

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)
Poetry of Emily Dickinson
.... The
poet uses the language of business in later passages, as if she were
speaking only of worldly goods, but this seems to belie the urgency of the opening ....
(1547

6

)
The poem "hay un lugar"
.... The duchess of which he is
speaking is already dead and he is
speaking to a man .... to the marriage of true minds The type of love about which the
poet writes in ....
(4139

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)
William Butler Yeats and Irish Mythology
.... the
poet his distinctive voice, and yet it is interesting how the
poet strained against .... He may have feared that his poetry was
speaking to too small an audience ....
(740

3

)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
.... The
poet is . . . a man
speaking to men" (Drabble 46). Wordsworth's pantheism can be debated more sensibly than can his transcendentalism. ....
(1879

8

)
The Study of a Poem
.... days are past the best, Simply I credit her false-
speaking tongue; On .... Shakespeare was primarily an Elizabethan
poet, meaning that he reflected the prevailing ....
(813

3

)
The human imagination
.... The
poet's argument is simply that the artist has given these people and their actions immortality. In a broader sense, Keats is
speaking of the power of art ....
(2771

11

)
Ode to a Grecian Urn (Keats). Stonehedge
.... The
poet's argument is simply that the artist has given these people and their actions immortality. In a broader sense, Keats is
speaking of the power of art ....
(2771

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)
Irony in Poetry of Ezra Pound
.... He draws attention to the function of the
poet, to the existence of a .... The voice
speaking, ambiguously identified as "Mr. A. Little or perhaps Mr. Nelson, or ....
(2540

10

)
Irony in Pound's Cantos
.... He draws attention to the function of the
poet, to the existence of a .... The voice
speaking, ambiguously identified as "Mr. A. Little or perhaps Mr. Nelson, or ....
(2702

11

)
Ezra Pound's Poetry
.... He draws attention to the function of the
poet, to the existence of a .... The voice
speaking, ambiguously identified as "Mr. A. Little or perhaps Mr. Nelson, or ....
(2569

10

)
Analyses of 13 Poems The opening line of this
.... The
poet savors the eating of the plum and recreates the experience in sound .... The
speaking of the word requires one to "pout and push," and the author equates ....
(2800

11

)
Keats and De Quincey and Austen
.... The
poet's argument is simply that the artist has given these people and their actions immortality. In a broader sense, Keats is
speaking of the power of art ....
(1085

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)
The Book of Sand (Borges)
....
poet kills himself and the king must wander the streets of a beggar in the kingdom he formerly rules "'At dawn,' said the
poet, I awoke
speaking words that ....
(3520

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)
Meditation and Ritual in Religion
.... In the poem "
Speaking of Siva," Basavanna addresses "this thing called bhakti." Bhakti is the .... The
poet warns the reader not to take on this thing called bhakti ....
(1542

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)
My Last Duchess
.... Such structure helps us read the poem exactly as the
poet intended, in order to .... He often directs or gives orders to the person to whom he is
speaking like "Will ....
(1591

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