Cold in the Earth, by Emily Bronte, and Thistles, by Ted Hughes, both address life and death issues. One is through the imagery of war while the other deals with the death of a loved-one.

"Canal Bank Walk" is a poem of religious significance focussing on creation through God's love. The poet clearly has a love of nature, its beauty, its purity and its origins, all attributable to God.

Essay discusses how Carl Sandburg utilizes the aspect of allusion in his short poem entitled "Grass."

In the seventeenth century, poetry began to move away from humanism and began to explore the everyday person's thoughts and feelings. Robert Herrick was one of the many poets who wrote during this time of change. His poem `To the virgins, To make much of time' is a good example of the carpé diem theme in poetry. The poem, "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a tale of a turning point in the speaker's life. The narrator is faced between the choice of a moment and a lifetime.

Analyzes the ever-changing relationship of father and son in the poem "Boy Driving his Father to Confession," by Seamus Heaney. Reflects on the idea of change.

Provides a theme analysis of the poem Channel Firing, by Thomas Hardy. Describes how Hardy portrays condemnation of the disturbing nature of war.

Describes the modern Sonnet and its distinguishing characteristics. References Modern Love by George Meredith and If We Must Die by Claude McKay.

This essay discusses two of Sigfried Sassoon's World War 1 poems, "The One-Legged Man" and "The Hero."

Seamus Heaney's poem "Blackberry Picking" reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings about his childhood and his memories of that childhood. As the poem tells an account of a blackberry-picking expedition, Heaney's easily understood imagery enables the reader to become increasingly aware of Heaney's unhappy, tormented childhood and the intense emotion he felt about it.

Provides a critical review of "Childhood" by Edwin Muir. Describes the techniques/devices Muir has used to convey his ideas to the reader and the extent to which these ideas can be considered responsible. Examines theme, imagery, word choice, structure, and mood.

Analyzes Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Discusses Blake's attitudes toward authority and his dismay of its treatment of children.

Explores Beowulf, an epic poem written in the eighth century. Examines the concurring themes of Paganism and Christianity in the poem.

Christopher Dewdney's poem Night Wind perplexes readers as it progressively becomes less comprehensible. The use of five stanzas, failing to establish a speaker, and misguided use of intelellectual language all contribute to the failure of this poem.

All the elements of Medival romanticism are found in John Keats's poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci." In this literary ballad, Keats's beautiful femme fatale ruins the life of a knight.

This essay examines the form and cultural connections of Robert Browning's poem titled "My Last Duchess."

Essay discusses the imagination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

To-day Coleridge might be considered melodramatic, but to a poet of the romantic period he is being denied much more than a nature walk, he is being denied the chance to appreciate the beauty of nature and perhaps to expand his love for it.

Colonial School Girl opens with the phrase, "Borrowed images/willed our skin pale", which is an allusiin to many teenaged school girls bleaching their skins with different creams and soaps to become a lighter complexion. The poem as a whole focuse on the rejection of one's color to a more favoured one, emphasised to them by the outer one.

Written by Walt Whitman, "Come up from the Fields, Father" is a poem from volume eight of Leaves of Grass and was published in 1900. The poem is a narrative story, sharing the effects of a single war death on an Ohio family.

In "Kubla Khan", a poem written of a dream, Coleridge attempts to portray, not only one, but many visions of Xanadu. By using imagery related to beauty and nature especially, he attempts to enhance his visions of beauty, power, mystery and paradise in the minds of the reader.

Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Bells" brings out the meaning behind the symbols of various bells. He incorporates musical and sound devices as well as auditory and visual imagery to describe different dispositions associated with four different types of bells.

A very thorough and profound analysis, this commentary investigates all aspects of the poem "Death of a Naturalist" by Irish poet, Seamus Heaney.

Provides a detailed and insightful commentary on Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress." Describes how Marvell masterly uses his writing as a tool for chauvinism and uses the structure of the poem to systemize and sustain his argument.

Comments on the major themes in "Blessing" by Imtiaz Dharker, as well as the various literary techniques used. Mentions water as a scarce gift from God to be treasured. Keywords: Indian poetry

Discusses metaphors, themes, imagery and other literary devices in the poem "Search for My Tongue" by Sujata Bhatt. Keywords: culture, cultural identity, culture clash

Speaks on the themes in the poem "Growing Pain" by Vernon Scannell, highlighting the problems of growing up and the importance of a close parent-child relationship.

In the poem "Two Hands" , by Jon Stallworthy,the speaker is comparing his own hand to his father's hand. Although physically their hands are rather similar: "spade palms, blunt fingers, short in the joint", these people are in fact very different. The poem also describes the relationship between the father and the son and their feelings towards each other.

As the title suggests, in "Second Glance at a Jaguar", Hughes returns to an isolated jaguar held captive behind bars in a zoo, and revisits several ideas he first put forward in his poem "The Jaguar" written ten years previously.

In the poem `Break' by Dorianne Laux, the image of putting a puzzle together is used to compare the way of life of the family. The shape of the poem looks like a piece in a puzzle, by the combination of long and short sentences.

This essay is a comparison between two poems that deal with loss, distance and the ways in which human beings cope with those feelings.

Comparison of two World War I poems: "Dulce ET Decorum est." by Wilfred Owen and "Vitae Lampada" by Sir Henry Newbolt.

Three poems about war: "Disabled" by Wilfred Owen, "Recruiting" by E.A. Mackintosh, and "The Hero," by Siegfried Sassoon. All three poems reveal soldiers and their war experience and evoke pathos. In "Disabled," we feel sad because the man is seen as someone to pity; "Recruiting" is a satirical view of war propaganda; and in "The Hero," we pity the mother because she is lied to and will never know the truth about her son's death.

`To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell and `A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' by John Donne are two poems which show two poets expressing their love. Marvell thinks of love and relationships in a physical way, and often portrays sex in his poem. In contrast, Donne is more of a romantic, and thinks of love as something rather special that should be treasured.

Poets used are: William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Pond is similar to The Wild Swans at Coole in terms of theme. The both talk about the poet's own life. In The Wild Swans at Coole, Yeats compares his life with that of the swans. Meanwhile, the pond is Schmidt's own life metaphorically. On the other hand, Pike is about the fish, pike, which makes readers think about man's relationship with the natural world.

A comparison of the poems "London" by William Blake and "Composed Upon A Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth. The poems take opposing viewpoints with regard to the city of London; Blake takes a generally negative view, while Wordsworth takes a generally positive one.

In " Little Boy Crying", the three-year-old boy learns the lesson of not making a "plaything of the rain", he knows he needs to behave himself or else this will cause him his father's slap. In " The Lesson", as the title suggests, the boy learns a lesson from his father's death.

A comparison between the poems "The Villain" by W.H. Davies and "Apparently With No Surprise" by Emily Dickinson.

Comparing and Contrasting "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke and "Piano" by D.H. Lawrence

Explores how both David Malouf and William Wordsworth utilize similar themes in their poetry in differing ways to explore the tension between humanity and the natural world.

Both Thomas Hardy's poem "Snow in the Suburbs" and Ted Hughes' poem "Wind" have the natural elements as their theme, showing the power of nature and its effect on the world. However, the two poems establish completely opposite moods through their individual uses of simile, metaphor, personification, and line length.

William Blake wrote two versions of the final stanza of his poem "London." The poem describes societal attitudes toward and reactions to everyday unethical behavior, and a comparison of the two versions of the final stanza reveals that the second version serves this purpose more effectively and dramatically.

Compares the poems, `To His Coy Mistress,' by Marvell and MacNiece's `Prayer Before Birth.' Explores the tone of disappointment used in each poem.

Symbolism and the use of an animal in extended methaphor in two poems: "The Tyger" by William Blake and "The Thought Fox" by Ted Hughes. The tiger in Blake's poem symbolizes evil and the fox symbolizes the writer's mind in Hughes's poem.

Both sonnets share the same general idea: the immortalization of the beloved. Beauty is seen as something that will change as time passes by; even though it is something the speaker almost refuses to admit. Nonetheless, the speaker, in both sonnets, defies time and vows to keep his beloved's beauty alive and well, even if it's only through the existence of his lines.

Wilfred Owen's, "Anthem for a Doomed Youth" and "Dulce and Decorum Est" both convey a message of disgust about the horror of war through the use of painfully direct language and intense vocabulary. The reader can appreciate at the end of both of Owen's poems the irony between the truth of what happens at war and the lie that was being told to the people at home.

The romantic poems "To a Skylark" by Shelley and "To Autumn" by Keats are both about nature. But how similar are they?

Provides a brief comparison of two love poems, Petrarch's "365" and Stampa's "151". Describes how each poet bemoans lost loves, but in completely different ways.

Both of these poems `Upon Julia's Clothes' and `Sonnet 138' teach of love in the past about what it could do to you and how different men used to express their love for a woman. Both poems are successful love poems which show two sides to love, how strong love is, and how it can blind people to the truth about what is really happening.

Essay shows the contrast between two of Shakespeare's sonnets, Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130.