.... to free her people, not the child. In the poem "Ballad of Birmingham", by Dudley Randall, written in 1969, Mr. Randall uses tone and irony to describe the events of the mothers decisions, and as well as her concern for her child's well being. In the first stanza irony is used in order to make reading the poem more interesting. The situation in this first stanza is also very important. The little child is in a desperate situation and wants to help better the lives of the African Americans. Randall also focuses on specific culture here. The speaker is allowing the reader to make a mental picture of one specific march in Birmingham (Hunter 17). But, you kn .....

.... yearns to free himself from his own mortality. Every aspect of his gloomy existence transpires in his house from which he never ventures forth. Roderick's altered appearance probably was caused by his insanity. He had once been an attractive man and "the character of his face had been at all times remarkable" (667). However, his appearance deteriorated over time. Roderick had changed so much that "[the narrator] doubted to whom [he] spoke" (667). The narrator notes various symptoms of insanity from Roderick's behaviors: "in the manner of my friend I was struck with an incoherence -- an inconsistency...habitual trepidancy, and excessive nervous agitation... .....

.... he started to court his distatnt cousin, Mary Chaworth, and "as she became sick of that 'lame boy', he began to see her as a symbol of the perfect, yet unattainable love, and turned his sadness into poetry." (Wolf, 19) Byron traveled and wrote a lot for the next few years and his mother died on August first, 1811. On January second, 1815, Byron married Anne Isabella Milbanke. They had one daughter, Augusta Ada, on December 10, 1811. Byron and Anne Milbanke divorced one year later and Byron left London forever. Byron went to Switzerland where he befriended Percy Shelly, another promenent poet at the time, and became fairly obsessed with him. In 1824, after B .....

.... Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. Humans throughout history have striven to overcome their mortality by leaving something of themselves behind -- evidence of their existence. The subject of Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" is an ancient king who shared this common desire, but not in a common way. He not only wanted to leave behind a record of himself for future generations, he wanted his memory exalted above that of others, and even above the "Mighty" who would live after him. He did not want to give up at death the power he had wielded in life. The irony in this poem lies in the difference bet .....

.... have to tell those that are dying that it is okay to leave and that we can survive without them here. Celine Dion understood this when she sang "Fly", a song that portrays the fear of those who are dying. They are often afraid of the unknown and of leaving others behind to live without them. "Fly" eases those fears and reassures everyone that everything will only be better. Celine Dion sang this song in remembrance of her infant niece. She had no children of her own at the time and was very close to her niece, who died SIDS, and she expresses her feelings for the child very eloquently in the song. In the song, she gives her niece permission to stop fighting a .....

.... create an image in the poem of a man who is very brave and would do anything for his country. The character in the poem reinforces the meaning because he truly believes in his country. He describes England in his ninth line by saying, "And think, this heart, all evil shed away." These are the words of a man who truly believes that his land is the greatest of good. Images in "The Soldier" are extremely strong and persuading. One image is the line "Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam." This line evokes images of a beautiful woman cherishing and caressing the man who stands at her side. Another line is "Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of h .....

.... in Plath's poetry. Sylvia Plath had high expectations for herself and suffered from anxiety and self-doubt when it appeared that she would not reach her goals. Many women feel that their homes, children and marriages are not perfect and perceive themselves as failures, in 1932 according to Bill Gilson in her biography Sylvia Plath was born in to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She published her first poem when she was eight. Her father's death in 1940 from gangrene ( the consequence of a diabetic condition that he refused to treat), Plath was only eight years old, this was the crucial event of her childhood. In her poem "Daddy" we see Plat .....

.... Keats is saying that the urn is a "bride" yet still kind of pure like a virgin. It's full of young love and the promise of new and intimate discovery. He's saying that the urn will be explored from different standpoints, at different times, and by different individuals. Although a "bride," it can never be entirely fulfilled. In the next line it is the "foster-child of silence and slow time," the urn exists in time because it is only throughout time and its events that we can even begin to understand the scenes it presents in their relation to our own experience. "The Sylvan historian, describes the panels on the urn that present ancient woodland scenes, .....