... "knuckle", and "key" suggest the abrupt sound of air passing through the paper roll of a player piano. In the next line, the word flicker is a phonetic intensive, closely associated with word ‘flame'. Since the ‘flame' is a symbol of life and light, it gives the reader a feeling that the piano is alive, further adding to the effect of personification in this poem. In the last line of the first stanza, there is consonance in "these", "keys", and "melodies". The repeat of the smooth "s" sound in these three consecutive words evokes a feeling of rhythm or harmony - pleasant sounds from the player piano. ...

... bulge softly in the language as the fruits itself. The first line states that “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,� recalls the cold of the mists as well as the mellowness of the season of harvest (line 1). In the line five, “The mossed cottage-trees,� sounds like the scrunch of teeth through an apple releasing the sharp flow of juice (line 5). The next line curves with the lushness of “swell the ground,� but any excess is checked neatly by the astonishing “plump� appearing as a verb and wonderfully solid and nutty to touch (line 7). The last three lines in the first stanza move heavily and lazi ...

... portion of his late poetry and is most readily apparent in three of his most famous Odes: To a Nightingale, To Autumn and on a Grecian Urn. In the Ode to a Nightingale, it is the ideal beauty of the Nightingale's song - as permanent as nature itself - in the Ode on a Grecian Urn, it is the perfection of beauty as art - transfixed and transfigured forever in the Grecian Urn - and in the Ode to Autumn it is the exquisiteness of the season - idealised and immortalised as part of the natural cycle - which symbolise eternal and idealistic images of profound beauty. In Ode to a Nightingale, Keats uses the cent ...

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... Art" is simple, yet many literary devices are used. The last line repeated, to the effect of "The art of losing isn't hard to master" suggests that the speaker is trying to convince herself that losing things is not hard and she should not worry. Also, the speaker uses hyperboles when describing in the fifth tercet that she lost "two cities...some realms I owned." Since she could not own, much less lose a realm, the speaker seems to be comparing the realm to a large loss in her life. Finally, the statement in the final quatrain "Even losing you" begins the irony in that stanza. The speaker remarks that losing this pe ...

... and comprehend. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a simple poem written with a feeling of appreciation for the little things in life. The speaker of the poem has a lot of work to do and he is stopping in the woods to watch the snow. It would be very convenient for him to watch the snow as he continues traveling, however he finds it necessary to stop his wagon. This shows that the speaker is willing to pause his life in order to entirely absorb the tranquillity of the snow falling in the woods. The appreciative tone appropriately expresses his purpose for stopping. He wants to truly appreciate this mo ...

... political beliefs. The same anti-societal anger has found its way into the minds of countless other killers, both past and present. Take for example Theodore (Ted) Bundy, who in 1978, after watching students drink and dance in a college bar, witnessed "a healthy ritual of joy from which we know he forever felt exiled". Shortly thereafter, Bundy left the bar and traveled to the Chi Omega sorority house where he watched from outside, entered, and then killed two girls and wounded two others. Just as Bundy had done, Grendel watched and surveyed from the distance. He waited outside the great hall, listening to the m ...

... a single definable theme. At one point, the narrator seems wholly narcissistic, and then turns to the power and beauty of nature. It is, however, in the final third of the poem where the narrator reveals his true thoughts to the reader, bringing resolution to the poem as a single entity, not merely a disharmonious collection of words. At the outset of the poem, the narrator gives a very superficial view of himself, almost 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", indicati ...

... we are no better or worse then the fly then we are equal to the fly. If that is the case then life is terrible for a fly is a small and meager creature. Blake is suggested that we are so useless and so petty that we are like flies. This view upon humans is one of disgust and is very depressing for the reader. Blake also says that men are similar to the fly due to their position in life. "For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing." Man is just as vulnerable as a fly, being a man can be killed at any time in his life just like a fly can be killed any time in his life. Also, " ...

... to understand. The poem was not written in what was thought to be “proper� dialect. The writer uses contractions several times. In line eleven Hughs used “there’s�, line fifteen and 21 he used “we’re�, and in line fourteen Hughs used “can’t�. The tone Hughs expressed in writing “Harlem� can be confusing to the reader. The tone seems to be of anger and then almost threatening or hostile. Hughs is expressing the frustration he and many other black people had to put up with. He talks about how prices of food are going up, tax increases, and jobs black could never get just because t ...