… a Welsh traditionalist born in 1913 and he died in 2000. He has strong views and lives in the past thinking of Wales of having no present or future. The poem consists of just one stanza. The main theme of this poem is war imagery, the words that suggest…

… a day in the life of a solider, presenting the harsh reality of war. The poet, Wilfred Owen, is dismissing "the old Lie", war propaganda, that it is sweet and noble to die for your country by showing the cruel actuality of life in the trenches, with…

… the French Symbolists--Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Laforgue--whom he first encountered in college, in a book by Arthur Symons called The Symbolist Movement in Literature. It is easy to understand why a young aspiring poet would want to imitate…

… work of true rhetorical mastery. Poe utilizes such strategies as vivid description and aims this passage at a wide array of readers. Poe's purpose is quite exceptional. He directs the essay mostly towards the non-believers of premature burial.…

… from Joseph Conrad's novel the Heart of Darkness. The line "Mistah Kurtz-he dead" refers to a Mr. Kurtz who was a European trader who had gone in the "the heart of darkness" by traveling into the central African jungle, with European standards of life…

… tries to capture the mood of a post war, 1950's zoo. He depicts the animals as hot, lazy and lethargic. This is because they have been captive for a long stretch of time. The animals are not lively but are dull and lifeless. He uses the expression…

… any great poet. At a time when fellow poet Walt Whitman was ministering to the Civil War wounded and traveling across America--a time when America itself was reeling in the chaos of war, the tragedy of the Lincoln assassination, and the turmoil of…

… a treatise on greatness. (Poem written by Stephen Spender) This poem, broadly, is an attempt to describe what makes a person "truly" great. The poem was written in the 1930's during wartime, this no doubt influenced the poet. However, soldiers…

… the author of, "Acquainted With the Night" uses many literary devises to tell the speaker's attitude toward the city and the speaker's current life. Frost uses language such as diction and imagery, details, and metaphors to reveal the speaker's…

… living." Many men live their lives for superficial reasons, never bothering to search for self knowledge. Yet life must be closely examined and reflected, known and discovered by every individual. Some argue that life is far better and easier, without…