… about retired horses. It explains that the horses are now relaxing in a field. They do not have to race as they once had to. They "stand at ease" The sibilance and alliteration in "summer by summer all stole away, the starting-gates, the crowds and cries…

… in their purposes and goals; however, they are also very different. "Lucinda Matlock" by Edward Lee Masters, "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg, "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson, and "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar are all about the…

… No regular pattern in the first line, chaotic, gloomy. The word deep is a plosive, exhaling of breath. Symbolizes truly dead, out of the way.. finished as is the same with the word piled. Piled also adds magnitude. Not only is he dead but so Is every…

… The Grapes of Wrath, that of a story about migrant farm workers and their lives as a reflection on society, was the book that thrust Steinbeck into the limelight as a national celebrity. He won many awards and honors including being picked as one of…

… horizon. Faded Levi jeans with shredded pant legs caked in mud. The cloudless afternoon sky engulfing the earth in a baby blue blanket. A violent ocean wave crashing into the side of a rocky cliff. The hue of a day that is coming to a close. …

… Ancient Anglo-Saxon society was based around four highly valued traits; Courage, Generosity, Loyalty, and Courtesy. It is of these four characteristics in which many epic tales were created, and thus passed down for many years through oral…

… epic poem of "Beowulf" presents the characteristics of two heroes, Beowulf and Hrothgar. During this Anglo-Saxon time period, Hrothgar rules as the king of his Danish lands. However, this king faces many problems due to the disturbances of a monster…

… in c And 'Charlotte O'neals Song' use their poems as a form of protest. I will be looking deep into the obvious and not so obvious ideas and themes; throughout both of the poems and hopefully shedding some light on the subject. The poems where written…

… The poem Tiananmen is about protest, about the people who died whilst protesting. Tiananmen is a square of national importance, in Peking, China. It was a scene of world famous event in the late 1980's and was written in Hong Kong. The poem Belfast…

… by Sophie Cabot Black are both centered around the season summer, yet the images used to describe the season summer in each poem create very different perceptions of what summer is. This essay will discuss the use of images to evoke summer in…