.... seven-year old child who becomes separated from her parents and is lost in a wild kingdom. In the first stanza the author prophasizes the future, foretelling of a serious situation. William Blake then goes on in the poem to tell about how the young girls parents react to the new knowledge that their daughter is missing. The parents are fearful because they know the dangers of the jungle their daughter is lost in. The parents, caretakers, of the young girl can not conceive the possibility that the jungle may have a soft and caring side. We then find out the age of young Lyca, "seven summers old." At the age of seven, a young girl must be very scared alone i .....

.... As he watched the fill up the woods he knew that there was no chance of his friend seeing him that day. The easygoing snowfall occupied the speaker's attention even though he had a prior obligation to meet. In the poem, the speaker expressed his thoughts through his horse. An example of this was demonstrated in stanza 5. He was self-conscience about being lost; so his concern may have been why his thoughts were voiced through his horse. Yet, he made no attempt to leave the woods immediately. We learn that the speaker's character is similar to the tone of the poem. For instance, the topic of the poem is about a snowy evening in the woods, which could b .....

.... the conscience of the rebels. Though individuals having their own thoughts, they also share the goal of obtaining freedom from the British Empire. Yeats uses animals in his poem that cause splashing and other disruptions to the stream. These animals represent the pivotal uprisings and revolts made by the liberty seeking Irish rebels. A horse-hoof slides on the brim, And a horse plashes within it; The long-legged moor-cocks call; Minute by minute they live: The stone’s in the midst of it all (932) Here is an example of events supporting the stone’s cause, in which the overall constancy is maintained. This constant is the underlying strive of the .....

.... the poem’s subject, but also the speaker’s attitude.” Death of a Young Son by Drowning” and “On My First Son” are both straight- forward titles. Looking at them, the reader discerns 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 .....

.... an effective job in describing the speaker. In this case, it is nighttime, and the thunder is roaring. The speaker starts by saying: "The rain set early in tonight,/The sullen wind was soon awake,/ It tore the elm-tops down for spite,/ And did its worst to vex the lake(Barnet 567):" This description gives the reader the first glimpse of what is yet to come. These turbulent words help give the poem a gloomy feeling. When Porphyria arrives at the speaker's cottage, she is dripping wet. The speaker makes it an important point to describe her after her arrival. The description of the articles of clothing that Porphyria is wearing helps the reader know that Po .....

.... was merely a half-mile from their home. Thomas was riding home for the family dinner when his horse slipped on a cobblestone street, which threw him off and fractured his skull. Unfortunately, when a neighbor found him he was already dead. John was only at the age of eight when his father died. John’s mother, Frances Jennings, did not take long to recover from her husband’s death because she later married only two months after. Frances and her new wed husband, William Rawlings, had a terrible marriage from the start. As a result, the children were sent to their grandmother’s and will later be joined by Frances when she left William with the family bus .....

.... be special. I love you more than anyone will ever know, If there was a word to describe my love, Surely it would only be spoken by God, For no other person could love you more than me. In my heart I carry you and the essence of love, In its pure and simple form. All I have to offer you is me and my love, Though both are simple I promise they are true. Even as I write this, I think of how to describe to you. Something I hardly understand, But I must tell you how I feel. So I close my eyes, And let my heart guide my hand. Perhaps the tear .....

.... which illustrates the horror of war. Owen and his platoon of exhausted soldiers were painfully making their way back to base after a harrowing time at the battle front when a gas shell was fired at them, and as a result of this, one of the platoon was fatally gassed. Owen has arranged the poem in three sections, each dealing with a different stage of this experience. He makes use of a simple, regular rhyme scheme, which makes the poem sound almost like a child's poem or nursery rhyme. This technique serves to emphasise the solemn and serious content, and the irony of “the old lie,” of the title. In stanza one, Owen describes the soldiers as they set off towards .....