Poetry Homework Help

Compare and contrast the tone of Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen with Rejoice by Bruno Frank and the major differences between the...

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In Bhatt's "A Different History," why do the "unborn grandchildren grow to love that strange language?"

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What is an example of personification from the poem "Rejoice" by Bruno Frank?

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In the poem "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath, why does the poet compare the mirror to a "lake"?

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Can you explain the meter and rhythm of this poem and other literary devices? "Eating Sin" by Michael Sharkey: A man began to eat his order of...

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Hi all, I'm doing a research paper on Ben Jonson and am trying to find a poem in which Jonson utilizes many Shakespearian elements. Any...

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Please give a suitable definition of poetry that may cover all its areas.

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Why is iambic pentameter used in sonnet 130 and how is it used? Is iambic pentameter also used in Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barret Browning? I'm...

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Do you know of any short stories and poems with "anger" or "fury" as a theme? My lit class was given an assignment where we have to explore...

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Is poetry given little regard today because of the trend toward materialisim in contemporary society?

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What two poems by e.e. cummings paint a colorful background?  

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Who is the most popular poet of all times? What were some of their popular poems?

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Explain the way Browning presents and develops the Duke's feelings and desires in "My Last Duchess."

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What are the differences between Victorian poetry and Romantic poetry?

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What is a summary the peom "Immigrant" by Fleur Adcock?

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What is a summary the poem "The Fat Black Woman" by Grace Nichols?

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In the poem For Once Then Something by Robert Frost, what religious imagery is in the poem and how does it function?   What is the tone of...

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What do you find memorable about the ending of Kevin Halligan's "The Cockroach"?

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Was the ''road'' Frost had taken easy ''to travel'' in his poem "The Road Not Taken"?  

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In general terms, what kind of existence do trees represent?

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I need help with a summary and/or analysis of the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes

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In the poem "Cooks Brook"  by Al Pittman, what are the words and phrases that suggest how the speaker feels about diving in the pool?

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Other than the tree/book symbolism, how does Sujata Bhatt explore the concept of language in "A Different History"?

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Summarize the masque Comus by John Milton.

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What is the theme of "My Grandmother's bed" by Edward Hirsch?

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What parallels, both stylistic and thematic, can be drawn between The Merchant of Venice and Sonnet 94, both written by Williams Shakespeare?...

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The analysis of the poem The River's Story by Brian Patten   

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How does one analyze Winifred Mary Letts' poems, especially "The Call to Arms in Our Street"?  

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In Hecht's "More Light! More Light!" "ghosts in the oven" alludes to  

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Explain the poem "The Cockroach" by Kevin Halligan.

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How does William Blake use satire within 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience'? Please could you give some examples?

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What is a definition of the philosophy of poetry?

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What is the form of Petrarch's Sonnet 90? (explain the sestet and octet)

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What is the meaning of the Whitman's poem about morning?

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What would be a good thesis statement in the story "The Suitcase Lady" by Christie McLaren?

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In the poem 'Without Hands' by Lorna Crozier, what does the "beautiful conjunction" and "translators of skin, bone, hair" also, please help on...

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In the poem "We Are Seven" by William Wordsworth, what does he admire in the child's perspective in this poem?

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What sounds effects are used in Boey Kim Cheng's poem "Report to Wordsworth" and how do they add to the meaning?

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What is the dramatic situation in Petrarch's Sonnet 333 (copied below)? What has happened to Laura and the Poet?   Petrarch's Sonnet 333...

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What is the analysis of the poem "Acting" by R.S Thomas?

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I am trying to find form, content, and literary elements for a poem by, William Carlos Williams, "To Awaken an Old Lady" (1921/1938)?  

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What are the symbols used in Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"?

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Could you please help me to know the deep or even the surface meaning of the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats?

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What is the main theme of "When I Was Fair and Young" by Queen Elizabeth I?

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Please give a character sketch about the narrator from "Cooks Brook" by Al Pittman.  

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How do these lines reflect the fulfillment of Janie's love and loss of Tea Cake in Their Eyes Were Watching God?     There was a time when...

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What is a feminist argument I could use when analysing the poem "Suicide Note" by Janice Mirikitani?

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Give a clear definition of poetry that differentiates it from prose (because many features that are in poetry are also in prose.)

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Explain what the poet wants to tell us in his poem "The Darkling Thrush."

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