Great Regulars: He admits that when it was early spring

and easy to see a little yellow flower where no other flowers were blooming, he had willingly stopped his walk to peer at the "smile" from the yellow violet. But when the "gorgeous blooms of May" were displaying their splendor, he overlooked the little humble flower.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Bryant's 'The Yellow Violet'

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As a poem, this list is seriously flawed. Robert Frost would probably be embarrassed that people are fawning over it as an important Frostian find. It is merely a list that seems to wax profound trying to compare a bird fight to the war in France.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Frost's 'War Thoughts at Home'

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But the ponies are dead now with everyone else who is dead, but they "wait like children under their granite breastplates,/lucid and helpless." The speaker is reminded of the nightmares that terrified her, when she was a child, and she begins to suspect that she might have been a rape victim or a victim of incest: "children under their granite breastplates."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Louise Glück's 'The Pond'

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Then the speaker does make a prediction that if the young man does not produce a pleasing son to carry on those worthwhile qualities, when the young man dies, so will those qualities: "Or else of thee this I prognosticate:/'Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.'"

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 14

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Here is the young man at the height of his prime "Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,/To change your day of youth to sullied night." This is the time when nature begins to inflict the downward course from youth to old age.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 15

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In the octave, the speaker claims that she intends to place Chaos into a sonnet, and she intends to "keep him there," and he will be able to flee only if he "be lucky." She suspects he will try to conjure up ways of escaping; she asserts, "let him twist, and ape/Flood, fire, and demon."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: The Sonnet as a Cage

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There are always those who are "out of tune" with nature and the spiritual life, and even before the onslaught of the dreadful Industrial Revolution, there was the process of getting and spending, and most of the getters and spenders would have been oblivious to nature and would have failed to walk a spiritual path.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Wordsworth’s Romantic Cry

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