I have the poem XXXIII. griefs as a hw assignment, i have to analize it. i have absolutely no clue i thought thismight help. The poem is also known as "I measure every grief..". Here are the questions:

1. How long is her grief?
2. How heavy is her grief?
3. Name 3 Kinds of grief:
a.
b.
c.
4. What kind is her grief?
5. Summary of poem:



6. Reaction? (I already wrote i didnt like it bevasue it was confusin,boring, and deep.)

Been there, done that. Check the General Discussion forum.

les

hi there. I am a grade 11 student from Terrace B.C., an I am doing a poetry assignment in English class. Now, I've read your poem "I laughed a Crumbling Laugh" but I am not exactly certain on what it is about. I was thinking that maybe it is about someone eves dropping, and realizing what they were listening to was very funny, so they ran away, out of the house before anyone knew they were ever there. I was just wondering if you would help me to understand your poem a bit better. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.


~Candice, age 16

I Years had been from Home
And now before the Door
I dared not enter, lest a Face
I never saw before

Stare solid into mine
And ask my Business there --
"My Business but a Life I left
Was such remaining there?"

I leaned upon the Awe --
I lingered with Before --
The Second like an Ocean rolled
And broke against my ear --

I laughed a crumbling Laugh
That I could fear a Door
Who Consternation compassed
And never winced before.

I fitted to the Latch
My Hand, with trembling care
Lest back the awful Door should spring
And leave me in the Floor --

Then moved my Fingers off
As cautiously as Glass
And held my ears, and like a Thief
Fled gasping from the House --

Oh, some steps in life are so scarry to make. it's like a child going to school on the first day, or like how you feel an hour before you get married. How about the first day on the job. It doesn't have to be deep. this describes an emotion we've all had usually on the first day of something, or a gutsy move we really aren't sure we should have made.

can i start a new one please?

what does the poem "The Raven" about? what is it's meaning? why do people think it's so evil? what is edgar allen poe trying to tell us in this poem?

If you post your question at the bottom of someone else's topic thread, it's likely to get lost. Start a fresh topic if you want to change the subject to a question you seriously want answered.

I assume you are serious about this one, because you have posted it at the end of half a dozen different topics (also not the right way to use this site), though I wonder why you feel the need for more than one pseudonym.

Do a search for 'Raven' on this site and you'll find earlier threads where the subject was discussed.

I believe Poe himself said there was no real meaning in 'The Raven'. He dashed it off as a late night fantasy. Any 'evil' is only brought to it by the reader.

There's an old joke about a traveller writing 'quoth the raven' in the comments book of a grotty hotel when checking out.