Great Regulars: Smoky's view is that he owes no one any

thanks for what he has, because he is the one who works so hard to get what he's got. Smoky reports that he has "wrangled horses" since he was "a rusty-knuckled lad." He's ridden broncos and "punched a heap of cow." Thus he believes, "I've . . . earned my own danged 'blessings' by the sweat of my own brow!"

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Barker's Thanksgiving Argument

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The speaker engages the conceit of a "clasping knife" to refer to the "world's sharpness" that would intrude upon the love between herself and her belovèd. Like the metaphysical poets who employed such devices, this poet follows their lead at times, engaging strange metaphors and similes to express her comparison.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Barrett Browning's Sonnet 24

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She was not happy about how expensive it was just to get her cards printed. She told the printer, "I wasn't no mint." But she wanted to see her name on a card so she thus had to spring for this expenditure; since she "hankered to see/[Her] name in print," she continued with the transaction.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Hughes' Madam's Calling Cards

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But his final jab at life and society and particularly the person who is responsible for the inaccurately carved epitaph is especially stark and accuatory: "Now that I am dead I must submit to an epitaph/Graven by a fool!"

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Masters' Cassius Hueffer

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Thus, the reader learns that Robert Fulton Tanner is a hardware store owner, who fancies himself an inventor, trying to invent the proverbial "better mouse-trap." But clearly Tanner thinks of himself as victim of a "giant hand" that has caught him and destroyed him.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Masters' Robert Fulton Tanner

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Solway establishes his thesis by quoting Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who spoke at the Second International Conference on Climate Change in New York in March 2009 and described those global warming believers: "These are people interested neither in temperature, CO2, competing scientific hypotheses and their testing, nor in freedom or markets. They are interested in their businesses and their profits--made with the help of politicians."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: The Poet and Politics

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In the final stanza, Guruji dramatizes the unity of his teachings which draw together all peoples of all cultures and religions, as he binds together the destinies of both America, which is "earthly freedom's paradise," and India, which is "spiritual freedom's paradise."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's Life's Dream

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