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Burns
To a Mouse
Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Auden
Their Lonely Betters
Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Keats
The Eve of St. Agnes
Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven
Spenser
Amoretti 23
Meredith
Modern Love #1 & #17
Prior
A Fable
Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Walt Whitman
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Hardy
The Convergence of the Twain
Houseman
Epitaph on an army of Mercenaries
Yeats
Easter 1916
Brown
Slim in Atlanta
To A Mouse Significance
Planning for the future & Extreme difficulty of life for poor people and the injustice of a world where they have so little.
I Wndered Lonley as a Cloud Purpose
the power of nature to inspire and uplift humanity through its beauty. Nature has the power to create joy
Their Lonely Betters Purpose
Explores the difference between natural beings like birds and vegetables and man made things like the art of language
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Purpose
the guilt of shooting a bird and learning to make up for his mistake
The Eve of St. Agnes Purpose
a forbidden love where they escape through the night together
The Raven Purpose
Loss, death, and grief. a man sad about his lover who has passed, the raven is a reminder of his loss.
Armoretti 23
Comparing his desire for his love to a sailor yearning for the shore.
A Fable Purpose
importance of a good leader and power
Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry
It describes the ferry trip across the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn at the exact location that was to become the Brooklyn Bridge.
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking purpose
The basic theme of the poem is the relationship between suffering and art. It shows how a boy matures into a poet through his experience of love and death.