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the wild honey suckle（Philip Freneau）As is displayed in this poem, honeysuckle, instead of rose of daffodil became the object of depiction; it is “wild” just to convey the fresh perception of the natural scenes on the new continent. The flowers, similar to the early Puritan settlers, used to believe they were the selects of God to be arranged on the abundant land, but now have to wake up from fantasy and be more respectful to natural law. Time is constant but the time of a life is short; any favor is relative but change is absolute; with or without the awareness, nature develops; flowers were born, blossomed and declined to repose, and human beings would exist in exactly the same way. A philosophical meditation is indicated by the description of the fate of a trivial wild plant.Thanatopsis(william cullen bryant)Thanatopsis” is a meditative poem of eighty-two lines, granting consolation for human mortality through mankind`s unity with nature. The poem is a wonderful literary work which explores the often controversial questions of death. Within his well written lines Bryant attempts to show the relationship between deaths eternal questions and the ongoing cycle of nature and life.Thanatopsis (1817), shows the deep Romantic spirit of Bryant in his youth. Bryant’s view is that death is the absolute end of the individual. Nature has a kind of healing effect. Nature can share your happiness. The image of death is definitely not horrifying, because you will be melted into nature.At first, this “view of death” might seem a cold and terrifying thought. But, as he explains in later poems, the life of man is part of the wonderful life of nature as a whole. The individual soul is not alone but, as he says in A Forest Hymn, part of “the soul of this wide universe”. Almost all of his poetry expresses his excitement at the idea of being part of something so vast. to waterfowl(william cullen bryant)The poem is a big success in presenting the beautiful and enchanting natural scenery. the usage of apostrophe by the poet creates a sense of intimacy between the waterfowl and us. this poem vividly presents for us a solitary and weary waterfowl flying in the distant rosy sky. the poet was actually asked himself where he should go, where was his eventual destination. And this relation between the bird and the poet paves the way for his moral teaching. From the waterfowl, the poet was teaching us the importance of struggling, of fighting against difficulties and harshness. Although the dark night was near, although the atmosphere was cold and thin, although the waterfowl was tired, the bird did not rest.To helen(Edgar Allan Poe)The theme of this short poem is the beauty of a woman with whom Poe became acquainted when he was 14. Apparently she treated him kindly and may have urged him–or perhaps inspired him–to write poetry. Beauty, as Poe uses the word in the poem, appears to refer to the womans soul as well as her body. On the one hand, he represents her as Helen of Troy–the quintessence of physical beauty–at the beginning of the poem. On the other, he represents her as Psyche–the quintessence of soulful beauty–at the end of the poem. In Greek, psyche means soul. As is typical with many of Poes poems, the rhythm and rhyme scheme of "To Helen" is irregular but musical in sound. The poem consists of three stanzas of five lines each, where the end rhyme of the first stanza is ABABB, that of the second is ABABA, and that of the third is ABBAB. Poe uses soothing, positive words and rhythms to create a fitting tone and atmosphere for the poem. His concluding image is that of light, with a "brilliant window niche" and the agate lamp suggesting the glowing of the "Holy Land," for which Helen is the beacon.\The ravenPoe wrote the poem as a narrative, without intentionally creating an allegory or falling into didacticism. The main theme of the poem is one of undying devotion.The narrator experiences a perverse conflict between desire to forget and desire to remember. He seems to get some pleasure from focusing on loss.The narrator assumes that the word "Nevermore" is the ravens "only stock and store", and, yet, he continues to ask it questions, knowing what the answer will be. His questions, then, are purposely self-deprecating and further incite his feelings of loss.Poe leaves it unclear if the raven actually knows what it is saying or if it really intends to cause a reaction in the poems narrator.The narrator begins as weak and weary, becomes regretful and grief-stricken, before passing into a frenzy and, finally, madness.Christopher F. S. Maligec suggests the poem is a type of elegiac paraclausithyron, an ancient Greek and Roman poetic form consisting of the lament of an excluded, locked-out lover at the sealed door of his beloved.Annabel leePoe set the scene in a kingdom by the sea and uses some images like sepulcher and tomb, which add some Gothic touch to the poem. With the repetition of some words and 。