.... the idea of when a beautiful thing like love can turn into an ugly thing like hate. The Tyger is obviously a representation of evil and of darkness. In Blake’s words, it is also apparent that the Tyger is somewhat of a puzzle, or an enigma, if you will. It is a mysterious beast with unknown origins. It seems that the Tyger is a result of something inhumane, whereas the Lamb is a direct product of Christ. According to the poet himself, the Tyger is somewhat “immortal” and out of this world: “..What immortal hand or eye./Could frame they fearful symmetry?” (lines 3-4) Blake requires the reader to ponder the .....

.... feel sympathetic or jealous when he wrote “Romeo and Juliet”? Poetry allows the reader to explore his own emotions and judge his own heart and desires because they have been brought to his attention by the poetry. Overall, poetry is an outlet. It allows us to express the unfathomable thoughts that race through our human minds. The writer gains support from the reader. The audience, however, must be able to decipher the emotions the writer is expressing. A poet can take a simple word and open new expressions giving the word a new beauty and new definition. In this excerpt from “A Definition of Love”, Jill .....

.... In Reconciliation, Whitman shows the devastation of war. In a war, you kill someone and even if you win, you lose. Whitman describes a man mourning over the death of his foe. He rejoices over the ultimate death of war "Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must...be utterly lost." He also feels great remorse over his so called enemy's death "For my enemy...a man divine as myself is dead." He then shows his love for the enemy "I...bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin." He shows war twisting the mind of a soldier who then deeply regretted his actions. In Dreamers, Sassoon shows the .....

.... has chosen is love and this theme works well with the sonnet format. The first half of this sonnet is written about how the subject is like a summer's day, for example: "Thou art more lovely and more temperate:" (line 2) and after line eight, Shakespeare concludes that the subject cannot be a summer's day because they are more beautiful and will last longer than summer itself. The sonnet form is suitable for this theme because it allows the direct comparison of the subject to a summer's day, and the thought division allows the author to change his mind and reconsider the comparison. Shakespeare uses many sound devices in .....

.... his single talent instead of investing it. At the lord's return, he cast the servant into the "outer darkness" and deprived all he had. Hence, Milton devoted his life in writing; however, his blindness raped his God's gift away. A tremendous cloud casted over him and darkened his reality of life and the world. Like the servant, Milton was flung into the darkness. Line seven, "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" describes the limitations and burdens of a person who has lost his sense of place in life. Obviously, Milton is making a reference to his blindness in relation to line seven. Line seven implies that once .....

.... as an Iron Age in which humans have become degenerate. There are three main kinds of pastoral that can be identified in different works. The classical pastoral begins with a conception on man and on human nature and locates it in a specific type, the shepherd, the simplicity of whose life is the goal toward which all existence strives. The shepherds remain first and foremost emblem of humanity, a general rather than a specific type and his afflictions and joys are universal. is an example of classical pastoral although it present a very ambiguous situation. Even though the shepherd lives in a world of natural simplicity in which .....

.... - which symbolise eternal and idealistic images of profound beauty. In Ode to a Nightingale, Keats uses the central symbol of a bird to exemplify the perfect beauty in nature. The nightingale sings to the poet's senses whose ardour for it's song makes the bird eternal and thus reminds him of how his own mortality separates him from this beauty. The poem begins: "My heart aches, and a drowsey numbness pains" (Norton 1845). In this first line Keats introduces his own immortality with the aching heart - a machine of flesh with a fixed number of life-giving beats. He also employs a common poetic device to indicate a visio .....

.... announced that "I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it." Sassoon's hostility to war was also reflected in his poetry. During the war Sassoon developed a harshly satirical style that he used to attack the incompetence and inhumanity of senior military officers. These poems caused great controversy when they were published in The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). He published many more later on such as: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930 .....

.... is not directly stated, it is to be understood by its audience. The poem tells the story of a young girl who asks her mother if she can participate in a Freedom March on the streets of Birmingham. Her mother refuses to let her go due to the fact that there is a high risk that the march is potentially dangerous. Instead of a march in the streets, the mother suggests that the daughter go to church and sing in the choir, where she will be safe. The poem takes an unexpected turn when the mother hears an explosion. Instead of performing a hate crime at the demonstration, the church was bombed. The speakers of the poem are describ .....

.... pride constantly by exerting harsh and swift punishments. He possessed no civil rights and in the eyes of the law he was not a “person”. His masters were oft to treat him with inhumane cruelty. Similar to Venture Smith’s life growing up in the slavery system, Douglass witnessed brutal beatings given by slave owners to women, children, and the elderly. Young Frederick was grossly mistreated and it did not get any better until he was sent to live with Mrs. Auld and her husband. Mrs. Auld instilled in Frederick the will to learn to read and write. This deed proved to be Frederick’s rude awakening to a world of knowled .....