English Literature

In the poem Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson death is being compared to a rider on a carriage.  It tells us that death can be anywhere.  It would slowly move around us watching and waiting before death would lay claim and take us towards eternal rest.

I think the narrow fellow in the poem A narrow fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson is a snake.  I figured it could be a snake because when it moves in the grass a spotted shaft is seen (line 6) and among all the animals that crawls or slithers only a snake is narrow, resembling a shaft and has spots.

The theme of the poem The Road Not Taken is about making choices.  The author is trying to tell us that life is full of choices and we cant take both but only one.  You cant tell which of the choice would have a positive outcome you could only hope for the best.  And sometimes you make the wrong choice at which point you would have regrets but when you happen to choose the right path then it would make all the difference (line 20).

The poems, Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar and I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou both speaks about imprisonment or the lack of freedom.  I think the poem I know why the caged bird sings is more effective in expressing the thought of being imprisoned because of the comparison it made with a free bird and how freedom is enjoyed without the cage.

In the poem Harlem by Langston Hughes the simile dry like a raisin in the sun (line 3) in reference to a dream feels withered, fester like a sore (line 4) makes the dream awful, stink like rotten meat (line 6) makes it reek and definitely becomes a nightmare, like a syrupy sweet (line 8) now that feels like a really good dream and like a heavy load (line 10) makes that dream a burden.

Ive been named after a cats foe
Or a prey if youd like to think that
But Im the techy one you know
Where you click on the left of my hat