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British poet Walter de la Mare captures a night scene wherein the moonlight has bathed everything in silver.

Millay's "Renascence" dramatizes a mystical experience that results in the speaker's new birth, realizing the depth of love and the power of the soul.

Addressing the sonnet, the speaker/poet in Shakespeare sonnet 106 celebrates the poem's ability to skillfully portray beauty that outshines that of the ancients

Paramahansa Yogananda, the great Guru/Poet, dedicates his book, SONGS OF THE SOUL, to his earthly father and consecrates it by offering it to the Divine.

A deeply religious poet, Anne Bradstreet focuses on the interrelationships of nature, humanity, and the Divine in her spiritual masterpiece "Contemplations."

Robert Browning's dramatic monologue, "My Last Duchess," a poem without poetics, is loosely based on the character Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara.

W. H. Davies' speaker bemoans the lack of leisure in society as he explores the idea of time and leisure used simply to observe natural events as they unfold.

The speaker in Frost's "A Prayer in Spring" offers a simple prayer highlighting a type of love and gratitude that traditionally accompanies the season of Thanksgiving.

The literary parody is generally employed to deride the original work, and Bret Harte obviously attempts such an employment in his take-off of Whittier's "Maud Muller."

Rudyard Kipling's poem, "Tomlinson," dramatizes the biblical concept of Karma, the principle that humans reap what they sow.

Robert Frost's poem "A Soldier" is a fascinating combination of the English and Italian sonnet. It offers an insightful testimonial on the meaning of a soldier's duty.

Sonnet 126 is a problem; it is not technically a sonnet. It has only 12 lines, six rimed couplets. It is located between the "young man" and the "dark lady" sonnets.

Wheatley was influenced by Greek and Roman classical literature, as well as by early 18th century British poets, who were also influenced by that same literature.

The speaker of John Greenleaf Whittier's "The Mystic's Christmas" understands fully the meaning of Christmas, the soul-significance of the Christ-Consciousness.

Yeats' speaker expands the Genesis concept according to Eastern philosophy as evidenced by the title to include the moorfowl, a lotus, a roebuck, and a peacock.

The speaker in Yogananda's "City Drum" dramatizes the glory of simply waking up in the morning to the sounds of a city as it begins an ordinary yet miraculous day.

While demonstrating the nature of a true patriot, the speaker in Yogananda's "My Native Land" offers a loving tribute to India, the country of his birth.

The omniscient speaker metaphorically compares a thirsty traveler to a spiritual seeker on the path to God-realization.

The theme of "The Noble New" is individualism; the speaker is urging the devotee not to be dragged down by a herd-mentality when journeying toward self-realization.

In this poem, the speaker dramatizes the spiritual oasis that he can summon even in the midst of the day's hustle and bustle by merely focusing on the call of the Divine.

Pop McIntyre and Smoky Hughes don't see eye to eye when it comes to giving thanks; Smoky presses his individualism a little further than Pop can abide.

In six quatrains, Blake presents a speaker who dramatizes the pathetic plight of children forced to labor in squalid conditions in London during the 18th century.

Poe's "The Sleeper" takes as its subject a beautiful woman in death, the subject that Poe claimed in his essay, "The Philosophy of Composition," to be the most poetic.

One of Frost's most analyzed poems, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" dramatizes the very human desire to hold on to what it has deemed "golden."

John Greenleaf Whittier's "Maud Muller" captures the melancholy of the human heart's penchant for grieving over "what might have been."