... an almost spiritual experience by simply observing the stillness of morning. 'Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;' (13:WB) Just as Wordsworth finds fulfillment in nature, he also finds disgust in the world's neglect of nature. His sonnet, 'The World Is Too Much with Us' deals primarily with his dissatisfaction with the world.Wordsworth criticizes mankind for misdirecting its abilities. 'Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers' (2:TW) Wordsworth also hopes that the world would find more of itself in nature, similar to his desire for his sister in his poem, 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey', ...

... he will choose to travel. He has to choose only one path, therefore leaving one that he will not get to experience. The disappointment of the speaker is shown when he expresses that he is "sorry. . . [he] could not travel both" (line 2). He also shows his "hesitancy of the decision" (Barry 13) when it is stated "Though as for that, the passing there / Had worn them really about the same" (line 9-10). It seems as if he is expressing an "inability to turn his back completely on any possibility" (Barry 13) of returning when the poems reads "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" (line 13). He also knew that the p ...

... of becoming distinguished, or obtaining an identity, is to live a life of self-satisfaction. The persuasive devices in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" successfully communicate Whitman's own theory of breaking the molds of society by living as a self-satisfying individual. What makes one person's life different from the next? Whitman leaves the apprehension that the distinguishing characteristics are few. Whitman informs the audience that he has lead the same life as they, who lead the same life as their children will and their ancestors did. The poet questions the significance of a person's achievements by asking, ...

... seeming angered when one of the tramps interferes with his wood chopping: "one of them put me off my aim". This statement, along with many others, seems to focus on "me" or "my", indicating the apparrent selfishness and arrogance of the narrator: "The blows that a life of self-control/Spares to strike for the common good/That day, giving a loose to my soul,/I spent on the unimportant wood." The narrator refers to releasing his suppressed anger not upon evils that threaten "the common good", but upon the "unimportant wood". The appparent arrogance of the narrator is revealed as well by his reference to himself as ...

... him," How did you survive" (13) He picks up the turtle to comfort it, but the turtle goes back into its shell to hide from him. He uses his experiences with the turtle to compare it to his wife's sickness. His wife, who is a middle-aged woman, is having a hard time getting over losing one of her breast due to an operation. It also seems that she feels she might die. His wife is not comfortable with the way she looks and she shies a way from her husband every time he tries to get close to her: "In the widows before us,/ as we changed her dressings," (32-33) "One morning, I pressed my lips / to her chest until, at ...

... a somewhat dead world before actually passing on. I feel that the speaker has come to that point of closure; then she sees a fly: “Signed away What portion of me be Assignable-and then it was There interposed a Fly� (9-12). I interpret this statement to say that she has closed out all that was her life, and is ready to pass on, when the presence of a pesky fly seems to catch her attention. The introduction of this fly - a part of the world she has closed out - signals that her life is not quite complete. Perhaps she has not succeeded in gaining final closure. There comes a time in life when it is necessary ...

... Sassoon's poetry made very little impact on the critics or the book buying public After being wounded in April 1917, Sassoon was sent back to England. While recovering at Craiglockhart War Hospital Sassoon met two other poets, Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen. All three men had grown increasingly angry about the tactics being employed by the British Army. Sassoon was willing to go farther than Owen and Graves in his criticism of the war and July 1917 published a Soldier's Declaration, which announced that "I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of military authority, because I believe that t ...

... through which something is expressed or implied. An example of this is found in the title of this poem in which Don uses the word "Mourning." You could interpret this as that he is about to leave and doesn't want his lover to be sad, but it also conveys the message that when the morning comes it will be a time for them to part. Therefore, I ask, "aren't we all guilty at one point or another while in a love relationship of trying to convey a message to a loved one and they in turn have misinterpreted that message?" The poem begins "As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whispering their souls to go." Here the pe ...

... reading about and what we can expect. There is no gradual build-up to the main point. Instead, there is merely a progression of explanation. Many years beyond the grave, the narrator portrays the placid process of her passing, in which death is personified as he escorts her to the carriage. During her slow ride she realizes that the ride will last for all eternity. “The carriage held but ourselves and immortality.�(3) It is my opinion that the speaker in this poem exemplified the voice of all people. She ‘could not stop for death’ as none of us really believe we can or that we have the time. Most ...

... and imagery, to fit each poem accordingly. In Thomas' poems, "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night," "Fern Hill," and "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower," he uses different techniques and language to make each poem more effective to the reader. Thomas' poem "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" is addressed to Thomas' father, giving him advice on how he should die. The poem is a villanelle, which is a type of French pastoral lyric. It was not found in English literature until the late nineteenth century. It derives from peasant life, originally being a type of round sung. It progresse ...