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on desires, and the depressingly harsh realities of Aunt Jennifer's existence, using sharp contrasts between the tigers that she sews, and herself. The tigers that she stitches appear to be everything that she's not- bold and valiant, not fearing…

Box" Sylvia Plath's poems "Daddy" and the "Arrival of the Bee Box" both show the speaker of the poem desperately struggling with their feelings of vulnerability and powerlessness. Throughout the poems, the readers see the speaker attempting to…

This tranquil and nostalgic poem has a slight eerie feeling to it and shows how the writer of the poem is so accepting of death. Many parts of this poem include references to Dickinson's theory concerning the circle, and how everything that goes…

Looking at a Blackbird," is misleading, because he does not only offer thirteen ways of looking at blackbird, but the poem offers us many insights on how humans think. "Blackbird", written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, has many similarities with…

be The Red Wheel Barrow by William Carlos Williams. It is one my favorite poems because it is one of his shortest poems, that was published in his volume of poems called Spring and All. Even though the poem is very short compared to some of his other…

what would be better then reviewing one of his famous poems? Birches takes us away from the woods of New Hampshire (which are typical of Frost's poems) or the despair of humanity and places us partly back in the woods, but also partly in a certain…

sends the message that success, like any other possession tangible or intangible, is only appreciated by those whom it is not always readily available. Dickinson both clearly states this message and implies it throughout the poem, and uses rhyme,…

Les Murray's 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow', there is a clear unconventional portrayal of the hero, and he shows many heroic concepts as a result of the dramatic techniques used to convey the notion of the weeping man not being society's 'conventional…

between the speaker and the father embraces the ideas of unseen love and the speaker's regret. The poem is a result of the speaker's reflection on his or her past experiences with his or her father. Hayden shows all the little things the father does,…

various writing techniques to relate meanings of poems. According to Bedford/ St. Martin "Part of what makes poetry interesting is its indirectness, its refusal to state something simply as the way it is." W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off…