… hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done." To grasp a hold one someone's true being cannot be done through what they have said, or what they have done, but instead, a healthy combination of both. John Greenleaf Whittier, a highly…

… events that influenced her poetry. As a child, things like 'lacking' a mother or being sent to boarding school. As she got older, she began to see the ones that she loved pass away. Although these were events that happened to everyone, they had a major…

… the affect of life on that childhood. However, they both express completely different point of views - 'Rising five' uses the idea of a child to show how children treasure life so much more than adults. Charles Causley's poem uses the child to show…

… a young girl who is seduced by a boy after the party, and consequently becomes pregnant. The second section describes how the girl then regrets her decision. In general the poet does intends her reader to feel sympathy for the girl. She does this…

… to convey his thoughts and emotions on the current state of the world. Macneice wishes to emphasize how harsh and ruthless the world is, and how it can strip away a young unborn baby of its innocence. By cleverly combining uses of structure, rhyme scheme…

… comforts the rain brings. It begins by simply stating how beautiful the rain really is; everything seems to become more alive and vibrant in nature. It can make something as ugly as dull and dirty streets seem to glisten with beauty. The way the rain…

… travels in one point in their life, forcing them to make choices and decisions that affect their lives. There is never a straight path that leaves one with but a sole direction in which to head. Regardless of the original…

… seemingly simple poem on the surface. The poem is written in ballad form, and contains four quatrains. Each stanza alternates between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, and provides the basic rhythm of the poem. This regular iambic rhythm of an…

… into my garden. It had one black spot on its tail, As if a drop of ink had soiled Its purity. It looked at me As birds do: head sideways, Neck twisted, almost upside down; Then went the other way, fluttered, Cooed, straightened, and stared at me With…

… born with a defected foot. He was known as George Noel Gordon He was raised by his mother Catherine Gordon. His father, Captain John Byron, was an ex naval officer. He was known as "Mad Jack" Byron. He had married Catherine Gordon by force, on the…