【正文】 rhythmic insertion of the long dash to interrupt the meter。 envy long ago: these words echo many a year ago in Line 1, Stanza 1. a cloud: Using these words instead of the sky infuses foreboding and gloom while symbolizing the dark envy of the seraphs. selpulchre: British spelling of sepulcher. Britain, of course, has always had a monarchy, the type of government that would rule in a kingdom by the sea Fourth stanzaout of a cloud by night: Use of this phrase emphasizes the dark envy of the angels and their sneaky scheme (which unfolds under the cover of night). chilling and killing: an example of internal rhyme Fifth StanzaThe narrator here focuses on three worlds: (1) earth, the realm of humans。 the most beautiful thing described by a poem is the death of a beautiful woman。 unreal woman。 The voyage= a search for truth。s dilemma represents the inability to live a meaningful existence in the modern world. McCoy and Harlan wrote For many readers in the 1920s, Prufrock seemed to epitomize the frustration and impotence of the modern individual. He seemed to represent thwarted desires and modern disillusionment. As the poem uses the stream of consciousness technique, it is often difficult to determine what is meant to be interpreted literally or symbolically. In general, Eliot uses imagery which is indicative of Prufrock39。you and I39。s location on the border between civilization and wilderness echoes a mon theme throughout American literature. The speaker is drawn to the beauty and allure of the woods, which represent nature, but has obligations—“promises to keep”—which draw him away from nature and back to society and the world of men. The speaker is thus faced with a choice of whether to give in to the allure of nature, or remain in the realm of society. Some critics have interpreted the poem as a meditation on death—the woods represent the allure of death, perhaps suicide, which the speaker resists in order to return to the mundane tasks which order daily life.1. One of his most wellknown poems. New Hamshipre.2. iambic tetrameter3. Rubaiyat stanza, 4. rhyming shceme: aaba/bbcb/ccdc/dddd5. chain rhyme “The Road Not Taken”.the poem is inspirational, a paean to individualism and nonconformism.The poem consists of four stanzas. In the first stanza, the speaker describes his position. He has been out walking in the woods and es to two roads, and he stands looking as far down each one as he can see. He would like to try out both, but doubts he could do that, so therefore he continues to look down the roads for a long time trying to make his decision about which road to take. The ironic interpretation, widely held by critics, is that the poem is instead about regret and personal mythmaking, rationalizing our decisions.In this interpretation, the final two lines:I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. are ironic and Setting Sunold age. Then “the Dews drew quivering and chill” makes the protagonist feel terribly cold, which may mean that they are getting nearer and nearer to the tomb. But at last, his panions, Immortality and Death, finally desert him and leave him alone to go toward Eternity.So it seems that though death cheats him and at the same time deserts him, the experience of death itself is not painful. Emily Dickinson’s poems just explain this kind of essence of life, which then lead you to a world of imagination and thinking.“In a Station of the Metro”. The poem is essentially a set of images that have unexpected likeness and convey the rare emotion that Pound was experiencing at that time. Arguably the heart of the poem is not the