.... the next is when Roethke states, “At every step you missed / My right ear scraped a buckle� (11-12). This in fact shows that the little boy is being drug around by the drunken father. In this particular instance the boy is being hauled around, but the author compares it to a dance when you would “miss a step� and stumble. Roethke then states, “You beat time on my head�, as if he were keeping time for a dance or a rhythm on the boys head (13). This all enlarges the negativity and sadness of the poem. The small boy also states, “But I hung on like death� (3). This proves that the boy was thinking about death, but dangl .....

.... speaking to a beginner. The beginner could be any age and starting anything, such as a baby beginning life, an athlete beginning a season, or a student beginning a course of study. The poet is telling the novice to build on what she has learned in the past, to continue to set her goals high and to open herself up to help from a higher being, which may be herself, her father, a mentor, or God, to help her achieve her goals. Booth is saying in this poem that the first lesson one needs to learn in life is that we must prepare ourselves for the future. In doing so, we must rely on a “higher being� for support, because we are not capable .....

.... (Cruttwell 153). The first two stanzas of the poem seem to be the speaker talking to an audience of people, w hile the last one looks back and refers to the first two stanzas as a "song." The audience to which this poem was intended is very important because it can drastically change the meaning of the poem, and has therefore been debated among the critics. While most critics believe that the audience changes from men, to women, then to a single woman, or something along those lines, Gregory Machacek believes that the audience remains throughout the poem as "two women who have discovered that they are both lovers of the speaker and hav .....

.... is stopping in the woods to watch the snow. It would be very convenient for him to watch the snow as he continues traveling, however he finds it necessary to stop his wagon. This shows that the speaker is willing to pause his life in order to entirely absorb the tranquillity of the snow falling in the woods. The appreciative tone appropriately expresses his purpose for stopping. He wants to truly appreciate this moment. “The darkest evening of the year� (8) “The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake� (11) “The woods are lovely, dark and deep� (14) Most people would find woods that are quiet, dark and .....

.... known, The wearinessm the feverm and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale and spacter--thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow. Away! Away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Becchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry Fays; But here there is .....

.... If anyone has ever seen anything dry up whether in the sun or not you can understand the gist of what he is saying. Drying up like a raisin in the sun would suggest losing hope after trying so hard. Another example Langston used was the festering of a sore. Of course, it is painful to get a sore. Such an act or thought could equate to the struggle the blacks in-lets say the sixties went through during all those marches across the country. The pain and suffering they endured trying to become a part of the so-called "American dream". In many ways those efforts were null and void because we still are not equal, racial discrimination .....

.... solipsism. William Wordsworth was very concerned with others in the subject of his poems as well as in his real life. In "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," he would not have written, "I have pleased a greater number than I ventured to hope I should please" (141) if he was only concentrating on the self. Wordsworth was concerned for all responses from all mankind and not only his personal response. He emphasized and focused on the common man in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads by writing in a common language that the ordinary man can easily understand and appreciate. There are no phrases or figures of speech in his poems that would not be found in .....

.... of laborers, thieves, and lovers. Both poems, therefore, see the need for man to be aware of both his earthly and spiritual worlds and to achieve a balance between the two that elevates and defines him as a creature of God. Robert Frost and Wilbur Richard rely on good word choice to exemplify their common theme. Frost's "Take Something Like a Star" sticks with the word star to represent God. All of the adjectives that Frost uses to describe the star also go hand in hand with God. In the Poem "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World", Wilbur uses laundry on a clothesline to characterize the human spirit. Wilbur uses more nouns to d .....

.... in which the invitations occur, what each speaker offers, and the tone of each speaker, these differing methods can be understood. The "Passionate Shepherd" is set in a romantic, natural backdrop in the seventeenth century. In this rural setting the Shepherd displays his flock and pastures to his love while promising her garlands and wool for weaving. Many material goods are offered by the speaker to the woman he loves in hopes of receiving her love in return. He also utilizes the power of speech to attempt to gain the will of his love. In contrast, the poem "Song" is set in what is indicative of a twentieth century depression, wi .....

.... curious about it. An example of the difference in time is that they had celebrations, feasts, and entertainment by way of scops in meadhalls. The meadhall of the story is Heorot and they describe it saying, "The great hall rose / high and horn-gabled" (l. 55-56). The phrase ‘horn-gabled' is referring to the group called the Scyldings which were always associated with the stag. They also probably decorated the hall with horns. Some further elements of the setting are the geographical features. The story mentions many places such as the misty moors, the marshlands, and the wastelands. These places are all dangerous and uninha .....