Edgar A. Guest

The lines "Life is queer with its twists and turns, / As every one of us sometimes learns" in the poem "Don't Quit" mean that life is sometimes strange with all its many twists and turns and that...

Edgar A. Guest's poem "Be a Friend" emphasizes the value of friendship over material wealth. The poem elaborates that being a friend doesn't require money but involves extending kindness,...

In Edgar A. Guest's poem See It Through, figurative language includes personification, metaphor, alliteration, and repetition. Troubles are personified as adversaries to confront, and "nerve" is...

The poem "Equipment" by Edgar Guest employs several poetic devices including apostrophe, anaphora, allusion, and repetition. Apostrophe is seen in the direct address to "my lad," while anaphora is...

Edgar A. Guest, a popular poet of the World War I and Great Depression eras, died in his sleep on August 5, 1959, at age seventy-seven. The cause of death was determined to be a cerebral hemorrhage,...

The poem "It Couldn't Be Done" primarily uses paradox, as the protagonist accomplishes what is deemed impossible. Hyperbole is evident in the repeated assertions of impossibility. Jaunty internal...

Edgar A. Guest's poem "See It Through" was written before its 1917 publication in the collection Just Folks. Guest, known as "the people's poet," published over 11,000 poems and was Poet Laureate of...

The theme of "Equipment" by Edgar A. Guest is that individuals are responsible for their own fate. The poem asserts that everyone is born with the same basic abilities or "equipment" to succeed, and...

In Edgar A. Guest's poem "Other's Success," there are two types of people: those who feel jealousy and resentment when others succeed, and those who genuinely congratulate and celebrate others'...