https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/t-s-eliot/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock

This poem is about domestic abuse, from the woman's point of view. This poem demonstrates her life and how she is living in an emotionally exhausting relationship. She is in a constant rotation of feeling loved, controlled, despised, forgiven and then loved again.

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https://mindbodycounselingreno.com/blog/mind-and-body/signs-of-a-toxic-relationship/

https://genius.com/Adrienne-rich-living-in-sin-annotated

Collins writes "the knives they have hired" to represent the lawyers they have hired that are cutting away at a once loving relationship.

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Poe had many lovers, especially in the years leading up to his death. The earlier years of his life were dedicated to his wife, Virginia. Despite the circumstances of their criminal marriage, one could not deny Poe's love for her. After her untimely death by tuberculosis, it was only two short years later when Poe would write "Annabel Lee". The poem describes the love between the narrator and a young woman named Annabel Lee. There is a line in the beginning of the poem that states "I was a child and she was a child". Considering Poe was 14 years older than his wife, this statement stands out. It is also known that Poe would often lie about the age of his young bride or his own age to diminish the scandalous marriage. This poem is likely a projection of his love for his wife and a projection of the shame he may feel for taking away the youth of Virginia.

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"Church Going" consists of a highly conversational tone toward its reader. The poem is filled with a ramble of words describing the melancholy, empty, nostalgic feeling a church used to provide its visitors. The importance of the Church is deeply embedded in those feelings for the narrator. The poem "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold opens up a similar discussion about the importance of religion and church as you grow older. Both poems are considered identical in their despairing, pessimistic tone. The poems are both considered conversational pieces.

Some would see the spider and the moth and just assume that it is just the chaos of nature that came from a corrupted world, but Frost gives a different perspective. Frost puts everything in white, a common symbol of purity in both the Bible and the standard social norms. This symbolizing purity allows for the reader to see that even if the current nature that we as humans see can seem bad, we must remember that God created everything and in all things said, " It is good." If all things were made good then even if on the surface things seem bad now they were initially made good, pure, and holy.

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