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• Answered a Question in Macbeth

  This quote is a speech by Lady Macbeth, wife of Macbeth. In this play, Lady Macbeth urges her husband to kill Duncan, the king of...

• Answered a Question in Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Hopkins's view of the interplay between God and his creations are best described by the terms "inscape" and "instress." Hopkins...

• Answered a Question in Lycidas

  Lycidas is considered to be the archetypal pastoral elegy in English; as a result, it embodies many of the characteristics of...

• Answered a Question in John Donne

  In his poem "The Good Morrow," Donne's main vehicle to describe his vision of love is spatial; he uses many maps, globes, and...

• Answered a Question in To Autumn

  As your question presupposes, there are different types of discourse going on in this poem. In the first stanza, the speaker is...

• Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  The verb tense changes to the conditional; the conditional is a tense that signifies "what if?". We use the conditional to express...

• Answered a Question in Sir Philip Sidney

  The rhythm, or meter, of this poem is iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter is the most common meter in British poetry (especially...

• Answered a Question in Rudyard Kipling

  Kipling's poem "If" is a message to a young man dictating how he ought to live his life if he wants to be successful. There seem to...

• Answered a Question in Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

  "Bells for John Whitside's Daughter" is a classic example of an elegy, a poem mourning a death. This elegy centers on a great...

• Answered a Question in William Wordsworth

  "Three Years she Grew in Sun and Flower" is one of Wordsworth's Lucy poems, a group of poems that center on a girl who has passed away...