.... nothing more. Then he begins to explain out loud that he was napping, and the visitor came rapping and woke him up. He opens the door to look at who or what is there, but all he sees is the darkness of the night. At that point the man's mind went wild, wondering, fearing, and dreaming of what might lie beyond his front stoop. The only sound that was heard was the soft whisper of the name "Lenore", as if the man was expecting her to answer his faint plea. Jolting back into the chamber, the man hears another rapping. Only this time it is coming from the window lattice. He a .....

.... that the speaker has reached a resolution after being kept under a man’s thumb all her life. In lines 71-80 the speaker compares her father and her husband to vampires saying how they betrayed her and drank her blood--sucking her dry of life. She tells her father to give up and be done, to lie back" (line 75) and in line 80, she says, "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, Plath’s attitude towards men is expressed in this passage through her imagery of the villagers stamping and dancing on the dead vampire. The speaker says "If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two–" most likely meaning .....

.... States. Finally, Hughes uses repetition of the first and last stanza to conclude his poem. To thoroughly understand the point that Hughes is making, one must take an enhanced inspection at certain elements that Hughes uses throughout the poem. In "Negro", Hughes gives the reader a compact visual exposé of the historical life of blacks. He does not tell the reader in detail about what has happened to blacks; therefore, Hughes allows these actual accounts to marinate in the mind of the reader. Instead of saying that he[Hughes] is a black man living in America, he simply s .....

.... movement through the second and third quatrain. For example, in line 5, Dickinson begins death's journey with a slow, forward movement, which can be seen as she writes, "We slowly drove-He knew no haste." The third quatrain seems to speed up as the trinity of death, immortality, and the speaker pass the children playing, the fields of grain, and the setting sun one after another. The poem seems to get faster and faster as life goes through its course. In lines 17 and 18, however, the poem seems to slow down as Dickinson writes, "We paused before a House that seemed / A S .....

.... 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 moment. “The darkest evening of the year” (8) “The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake” (11) “The woods are lovely, dark and deep” (14) Most people would find woods that are quiet, dark and deep to be frightening. The positive appreciative attitude of this poem makes the woods “lovely (14 .....

.... duplicity As they sit pondering On the lonely bench The thoughts penetrate their mind Finally, reality is clinched! .....

.... the multitudinous meanings found by the reader, allowing the poet to further implicate his or her beliefs and situations. Thus, the use of physical artifacts provides a freedom to express that which the characters in each poem lacks in their lives. Though unable to grasp the images that they create, each character in the poems gains a sense of self awareness. These utopian moments expressed by the creations are frozen, images that surpass the lives of their creators and remain intact with meaning. Through the utilization of physical artifacts, Aunt Jennifer and the Orname .....

.... 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 business. Frances died from tuberculosis when John was fourteen years of age. Frances’s death furthered financial problems for the family, which started when her father died. Now, John and his siblings were left with a guardian to live their lives. John never had any interest in books at his young age and it was .....