The speaker of Blake’s “The Lamb” refers to himself as “a little child,” which suggests that Blake has created a fictitious character who is speaking the poem, called

The equal protection clause

Which line from Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory” helps the reader understand the poverty of the speaker?

Poets often change the grammatical structure of sentences, such as John Donne’s final lines of “The Flea”: “Just so much honour, when thou yield’st to me, / Will waste.” Such arrangement of words and phrases is referred to as

To what is Longfellow comparing the “fond mother” (line 1)?

What is the problem presented in this sonnet?

To what is Longfellow comparing the “little child” (line 2)?

Two words that look like they should rhyme but do not, such as “brow” and “mow,” is called

In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” the two roads in the poem function as a symbol of 

When writing about theme, the writer should focus on