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I've been through so much in my life, words can't express; the only feeling I have inside is plain loneliness.
When you, finally, came around, you said you'd never leave, but I've never felt so alone; I find it hard to breath.
When I asked you if you had been drinking, you sat there and told me 'no''. You didn't know how I felt; I didn't let it show.
My insides were dying; they were falling apart. It was like you placed a knife to my chest, and stabbed it through my heart.
Mom never gave up; she raised me all alone. But you never even gave a damn; Have ...
This poem isn't just about "foregoing the chores." This poem is a reality check. First, there's no mention of the two being a married couple, and I don't believe they are. However, they are living together--a woman with an artist--and how the realty of living with an artist is completely the opposite of the woman's romantic fantasy. The house i...
What the heck does that mean?' Many people have found themselves asking that question when reading poetry. So in order to help get a general idea of what poems say, it is necessary to look at some examples of poetry and try to decide what, if anything, the poet is trying to say. Three poems, each by a different author, which all basically follow...
The Personification and Criticism of Death in John Donne's "Death Be Not "No poem of John Donne's is more widely read or more directly associated with Donne than the tenth of the Holy Sonnets, 'Death, be not proud.'" (Dr. Gerald McDaniel, lecture). In this sonnet, Donne personifies death in two ways, as rescuer and as punisher of even the most nob...
Joe Trev February 6th, 2021 Thoughts on "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost I read this poem in high school and found it very eerie; I didn't understand it at the time; therefore, it overlooked why the poem is so great. To me, the poem symbolizes the amount of self-destruction that haunts people every day. In the poem, fire represents desire, and I fin...
The Romantic period has numerous characteristics that help to distinguish it from other literary periods. A large majority of the pieces found in this period have at least one of the distinctive elements. Edgar Allan Poe uses a few of these elements to put a time frame on his short story, "The Black Cat". Poe begins his short story by saying th...
