NINETEENTH CENTURY POETS - Book Report/Review Example

Lizzie is like a protective shield for Laura and takes the risk of going to goblin men for saving the life of her sister. It was she who advised Laura like “Dear, you should not stay so late,” when she comes in the second part of night after enjoying her feast with the men. It was she who cradled Laura in her arms at night and comforted her for having a sound sleep. The poem offers plethora of the images which prevail Lizzie’s sisterly affection throughout the event. “Tender Lizzie could not bear” the use of very word tender repeats and emphasizes that the poem is for praising a sister’s love for another.

"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point The poem is a depiction of a black girl’s agony that suffers and is trodden down by the white men of the society. Though the whole poem is comprehensively consisted on the parts of the same thought, yet the forth stanza “I am black.might be trodden again to clay” is the most significant. To me it pleads and explains the suffering of the black girl who is truly a victim of racial prejudice. Her words “under the feet of the white creature” very well explain her being exploited and used by the white creation.

One of the striking feature of the stanza is that this is an innocent complain to God questioning Him if He made her to be victimized and to bear the curses. Emily Dickenson seems preoccupied with death and presents the same thought in one or the other way in many of poems. In “I want-it pleaded all its life” and “Because I could not stop for death”, single idea is presented and the speaker seems quite placid and pacified while going and accompanying death. It seems as Emily takes death as a very real solution and the true comforter which makes a man to rid away all his labors and works.

In the first poem, the speaker is presenter very civilized and easily gets ready to give his life in response to death’s single phrase “I want”. The speaker here is present outside the grave and seems unable to meet the death very late in life. So, it bows down and simply drives his way. While in the second poem, the speaker is too busy that she keeps the death to wait finishing her tasks. Yet the gentle attitude of death which stood waiting for the time she finishes made the speaker to be kind and leave the work.