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“No Swan So Fine” Marianne Moore (1932) “No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles.” No swan, with swart blind look askance and gondoliering legs, so fine as the chintz china one with fawn- brown eyes and toothed gold collar on to show whose bird it is. Lodged in the Louis...

How do diction and devices contribute to make meaning in this poem? Is this exclusively a poem about the sea or does something else lurk beneath? How are literary allusions employed? “Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore” Charlotte Smith (1798) Huge vapours brood above the clifted...

What can you learn from reading a sonnet like this one? How does Hopkins make meaning and how are the techniques of the poem important in that process? Does engaging in such analysis help you become a better poet? As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; As tumbled over rim in roundy...