who is free from "courts" and "towns" and owns his own small farm where he can "breath[ ] his native air" is the happiest man. The reader will find the serenity of the situation described here to be quite hypnotic.from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Alexander Pope's 'Ode on Solitude'
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While Dickinson's poem, "The Only News I Know," is obviously an exaggeration, it, nevertheless, dramatizes the most important topics with which the poet likes to engage: immortality, eternity, and God. She likes to occupy her thinking and musing with ethereal places and events.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Dickinson's 'The Only News I Know'
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The speaker begins by claiming that if a dweller of the Himalayas happens upon a male bear and "shouts to scare the monster," the bear will "often turn aside." Not so with the female of the bear species—she will "rend[ ] the peasant tooth and nail." Therefore the speaker concludes that the "female of the species is more deadly than the male."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Kipling's 'The Female of the Species'
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His traveling mates ridicule him for wanting to rest, and they continue on their journey: "they held their heads high and hurried on;/they never looked back nor rested;/they vanished in the distant blue haze." The speaker remains to enjoy his leisure while the others keep their busy pace.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: May Poet--Rabindranath Tagore
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Therefore, it is his soul that he praises, not his physical body, which is only an instrument used for "[p]ainting [his] age with beauty of [the soul's] days." Thus his sin is commuted to a virtue, because he is merely admitting love for his own soul, which is, in actuality, love for the Divine.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 62
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