get her bearings. The voice, which she qualifies as a "voice in mastery," poses the question to her: "Guess now who holds thee?" She quickly and fatalistically answers, "Death." But then to her happy surprise, the voice contradicts her, averring, "Not Death, but Love."from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Barrett Browning's Sonnet 1
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Emily Dickinson's "There is another sky" is an innovative, or American, sonnet. The lines are short, only 3 to 5 metric feet, and with Dickinson's characteristic slant rime, the rime scheme is roughly, ABCBCDECFCGHIH. This innovative sonnet sections itself into two quatrains and a sestet, making it a gentle melding of the English and Italian sonnets.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Dickinson's There is another sky
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In the first quatrain, the speaker metaphorically refers to death as "the Present"; although he cannot predict when he will die, he avers that whenever it is, the time for him will be the present, not past or future.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Hardy's Afterwards
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She has "smiles that win," and "tints that glow."
But not only is this woman physically beautiful, one upon whom the light and shadows play perfectly in balance, she is also good; he imagines that she passes her "days in goodness."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Lord Byron's She Walks in Beauty
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The father typically tries to avert the child's attention from the military pennant's allure and points that attention to other areas of life. The father points out that there are houses and money and cars loaded with goods to be dealt with. His implications are that the land is rich with material wealth with he would like his child to become engaged with instead of having to serve in the military to protect these things.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Whitman's Song of the Banner at Daybreak
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Wordsworth claimed that poetry results from the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." This poem is an excellent example of the poet's statement on poetics.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Wordsworth's It is a Beauteous Evening
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Guruji shows that only those who "have asked" for the discipline can receive it, but once they ask, then he is compelled to offer his discipline; therefore, for those who have asked him "to guide [them] to my Beloved's presence," he will do so, as he has done by warning them when they made mistakes.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's When I Am Only a Dream
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The speaker continued and "stole the sweetness from the honeycomb of innocent joys"; again, he looks for satisfaction in the simple pleasures life offers. He continued his search in activities such as reading, smiling, working, planning, and still he "throbbed" and "aspired" for that all-quenching something-else that seemed to elude him.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's When I Cast All Dreams Away
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