.... by the death of Queen Victoria. Reading attracted a large audience because of the tremendous growth in education opportunities (Granner, 616). One major downfall and factor of the twentieth century was World War I. This was had pulled up new roots that were "buried in the past," causing multiple conflicts between nations (Granner, 611). The war reflects the bitterness and troubles put on twentieth century poetry. The poets wrote of science fiction, anti-war protagonists, and ridicule of authority. Leading poets in the twentieth century are D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Dylan Thomas, and H.G. Wells. D.H. Lawrence views on nature are m .....

.... how I seem to forget You’re holier than thou. Executive office, Armani suits high tax bracket and power to-boot well versed from the best schools trained in perfection, the number one rule. Independence, autonomy and winning is just elitus and best characteristics that must always be shown never weak or unsure always believing you’re superior With all that you have, you still deserve more Denying others-what wasn’t worked for. You planned so well, I should have planned more to make one mistake I could not afford. How can you assume this is all true. I’ve never seen your foot even near my shoe. Until you’ve walked, a mile in my stead How .....

.... her why she always gazes out that window. She tries to immediately escape any discussion and threatens to leave for fresh air before trying to talk anything out. He obstructs her attempt to escape and forces her to describe what she is looking at when she continually gazes out the window. She is offended by his lack of understanding of what she is viewing and the conflict unravels. It seems as though they both have been grieving the loss of their child differently. Any feels her grieving is superior to her husband’s. His anger emerges as he feels that she must be sadder than he is. It is obvious at this point that they haven’t cried toge .....

.... the landing. Significantly, they don't come together on the architectural bridge and, when the poem concludes, readers are not assured that this marriage will regain the closeness it might have had prior to the child's death. The highly dramatic poem underscores the impact of loss and the need for communication or discussion of loss by those involved. When no reconciliation occurs, the loss intensifies to become destructive.In the poem “Home Burial�, Robert Frost talks about a couple in the verge of breaking up. I believe that the main issue in this poem is the death of a child that has not been addressed by the parents. A staircase, where the .....

.... heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course, Untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his Shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. In the simplest terms possible, Shakespeare is saying that the woman of whom this poem speaks of is beautiful. But even more than that, the eloquence in which he expresses her beauty demonstrates that Sh .....

.... of 9 feet a line. The rhyme scheme is every last word in each stanza rhyme's. Some of the imagery is with sight and sound. For sight they are “Close to the sun�, “Azure world�, azure mean the blue color in a clear daytime sky. “ Wrinkled sea beneath�, and “mountain walls�. The only one that was imagery of sight & sound was “like a thunderbolt he falls�. The figures of speech are “wrinkled sea�, which means the waves in the ocean. And one simile is “like a thunderbolt he falls�, it is saying how fast a eagle dives. The poems theme is how an eagle can fly so high and dive so fast. And how free an eagle is. .....

.... the raven’s name is “nevermore� meaning the raven is a bearer of bad news. Yet the student “marvels� at the negativity of the “ungainly fowl�. This means that the student is intrigued with the bird even if it is evil. The third instance “nevermore is used the student speaks of the bird flying away just as his hopes have. The raven represents death so in saying “nevermore� he means that no matter what disappointments have befallen you, one can always rely on death. It is the one thing that will always be there. In the fourth instance “nevermore� is used the student wants to believe that the raven escaped from a cra .....

.... for human isolation. Walls whether physical or psychological represent isolation and imprisonment. In “Mending Wall� we find the persona interrogating his neighbour as to whether a wall is necessary between them “If I could put a notion in his head�. Frost in this poem uses a simple rural activity, that is the mending of a wall, to conjure a much more universal theme that is isolation. The persona ponders at the fact why man can not live without walls, boundaries, limits and particularly self-limitations. “There where it is/ We do not need a wall�. Isolation of the individual links to our desire for barriers and boundaries as a form .....

.... 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 person is not "too hard" to master. The shift in attitude by adding the word "too" shows that the speaker has an ironic tone for herself in her loss or perhaps her husband or someone else .....

.... immediately the focus of the poem. Mid-term Break, conversely, is a title that leads the reader to believe that the poem most likely is about a normal carefree vacation and break from school. The author of this poem used this title ironically. He anticipated the reader’s expectations, and took the poem in a different direction. The character in the story is certainly not having a “normal� spring break at all, as he is spending it grief-stricken over the death of his four-year old brother. If one examines this title on an interpretive level, the word “break� takes on a new meaning, as it could refer to the death of the child as breaking t .....