loathed the poetry of Dylan Thomas and Henry Treece, and other modernist poets, and they considered the modernist movement "pretentious nonsense." They decided to expose the poetry that reminded them of "free association" tests, so they assigned three rules for writing the nonsense that would debunk the avant-garde, surrealistic poetastry:from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: The Ern Malley Caper
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Because these walls don't seem to want to stay repaired, the speaker repeats his opening line, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall," to which he now adds, "That wants it down!"
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Frost's 'Mending Wall'
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As a music score has its individual parts that when combined produce a pleasing sound, a good marriage that produces pleasing offspring has the power to enrich the world in a like manner.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 8
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Not only would the world weep like a widow, but it would also morn that fact that the young man left no pleasing heir to follow him.
A widow may continue to enjoy her children and in them the memory and appearance of the husband.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 9
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The speaker does not want to believe that such "murderous" crimes of hatred are, in deed, maintained in the bosom of this pleasing young man. The speaker rhetorically asks the young man if it is easier to hate than to love.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 10
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The song lyric is more dependent on rime and meter than the poem. The song lyric is usually less dense than the poem, that is, while the song may employ the same literary devices as the poem, it usually does so less frequently.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: What is Poetry?
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Then, the speaker begins to catalogue the various laborers he hears "singing": he first hears the mechanic, and each mechanic is working in his own special way, a way which the speaker qualifies as "blithe and strong."
Next, he names the carpenter whose song includes the measuring of planks and beams.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Whitman's 'I Hear America Singing'
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The speaker beseeches Duty to guide him so he will become strong: "let my weakness have an end!" Slavery to the senses leads to ruin, but becoming a "Bondman" to Duty frees the heart, mind, and allows one to follow one's true self, the Soul.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Wordsworth's 'Ode to Duty'
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