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Questions about poetry in general or about any specific poem. Please use this tag with the appropriate author tag, and, if applicable, a language tag (such as [french-language]).
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Understand "rip through him as at a distance" in Ted Hughes' "A Kill"
It is a strange way of putting it, but poetry is allowed to 'break the rules' so to speak. Your interpretation of the actual physical figure of the line is correct. …
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Why might Robert Frost specify a ' long two-pointed ladder' in the poem 'After Apple Picking'?
The opening lines of Robert Frost's 'After Apple Picking' read:
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there …
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Did William Blake intend The Tyger to resemble a nursery rhyme?
Compare the illuminated versions of The Songs of Innocence and of Experience, wherein we find The Tyger to the roughly contemporary Tommy Thumb's Song Book and there are many similarities. The Tommy …
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