.... mind Finally, reality is clinched! .....

.... towards God and the heavens. He has come to the harsh reality that being a child in a profession where help is needed, because the child can not help himself, God has let him down since he has not released him and the other boys from their coffins of black. He reveals this to the reader in the last stanza of “Songs of Experience” when he makes his parents think that he is still happy. Therefore they forget about the boy and go “praise God & his Preist & King who make up a heaven of our misery”(p36 L 11-12). The three most important role models the boy has are not there and in his mind have left him in solitude. Having st .....

.... so fast like the tablecloths magicians pull from under stuff on the table but the gasp from the audience makes it not matter. The passage was comparing going to junior high school to a tablecloth the magicians pull because junior high school was a big change to the boys. The gasp! from the audience meant the change did not matter because in the long run everything will be O.K. The fifth and last passage is a personification. It is a personification because the passage is saying that the arroyo taught them to look the other way. It stated, "That was the first time we stopped going to the arroyo. It taught us to look th .....

.... worlds, for example, "The Chimney Sweeper," "London," and "The Garden of Love." In "London," Blake reveals that this hypocrisy has robbed the world of innocence and spirit. In the first two lines, Blake repeats the word "charter'd." He uses this repetition to stress the mechanical behavior of the world around him. The word "charter" has connotations of something that can be sold or hired for money. Blake is connecting this idea with the chartered rights of Englishmen given three hundred years ago by the crown and never to be taken away. By using the subject “street,” and the river “Thames,” Blake is an .....

.... was not only a success for him but also a success for the battleship. This poem was written in such a way that people like me 100 years later can still see the point that he is trying to show us. This was one of the things that the Fireside poets were known for, writing in such a manner that the common man could understand it. The poem Old Ironsides was truly a great poem that made Holmes a star and also fits him with the other Fireside poets. .....

.... as their children will and their ancestors did. The poet questions the significance of a person's achievements by asking, "My great thoughts as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre [sic]?" It would be hard for any person to measure their self-accomplishments on the planetary scale which Whitman is speaking of. The second verse of the poem introduces the metaphor of the world being a "simple, compact, well- joined scheme" with the people dissolved into the "eternal float of solution." Like the mechanical"scheme" that Whitman refers to, much of the poem consists of topics that possess a repetitive or mechanical quali .....

.... her any way, “For though Othello has his blood from Kings his ancestry was barbarous, his ways African his speech uncouth.” Dickinson implies how impossible their relationship was in the simple phrase, “Overlooked I all-”, this I interpret as how she ignored her senses. She knew it wouldn’t work yet chose to ignore her better judgement. Another thing that stands out is the styles that these are written in (especially Mrs. Dickinson’s choice of style). Bishop was taking the view of an outside party, to which thing are alway6s more clear, so his was written in a clear, more traditional manner. However Dickinson’s po .....

.... she chose, and she chose to spend her life studying the arts on the isle of Lesbos which was a cultural center in the seventh century BC. Sappho spent a majority of her time here, but she also traveled extensively through Greece (Robinson 35). She spent time in Sicily too, because she was exiled due to certain activities of her family. The residents of Syracuse were so honored of her presence that to pay homage to her they built a statue of her because she had become a well- known poet (Cantarello 56). She was determined a lyrist because her poems were to be performed with the accompaniment of a lyre. She wrote her own musi .....

.... on the third line. The words breath and death are dominant words that reveal a somber tone, which runs throughout the piece. In the second line, the words ‘dizzy’ and ‘easy’ are paired as sight rhymes. Although the rhyme scheme is entertaining, the late night waltz between father and son is serious. The poem is told by a boy who remembers waltzing with his father. The first stanza reveals that the father has been drinking and that his breath ‘could make a small boy dizzy.” Imagery is used to describe how the boy interacts with his father. He ‘hangs on like death, ’as the pair romp with such a vengence that th .....

.... stating clearly and vividly the emotions of the scene, it is easy for the reader to identify the theme itself, and also to identify with it. In the first stanza, the speaker describes the ambulance arriving on the scene more so than the actual scene itself. The ambulance is described using words such as "wings", "dips", and "floating", giving the impression of the hectic nature of its business at an accident. When the ambulance arrives and breaks through the crowd, "the doors leap open" to further convey the hurried state it's in. In line 5, as the ambulance passes the beacons and illuminated clocks, it gives the reader an obv .....