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The Wild Honey Suckle: It is Philip Freneau’s most widely read natural lyric with the theme of transience. The central image is a native wild flower, which makes a drastic difference from elite flower images typical of traditional English poems. the poem showed strong feelings for the natural beauty.All the images make us feel pity for the beautiful flower which has only a short life. The Indian Burial Ground: It is another poetic description of native subjects --- the Indians. In this poem, beauty, fancy, awe, death and eternity are harmoniously interwoven. To a Waterfowl: It is a lyric poem with a strong spiritual intent. Simple as it is, it may well represent the peak of Bryant’s poetic creation. It expresses both the poet’s grateful view, at the close of a day of self-doubt and despair, of a solitary bird on the horizon and his sense of a divine power guiding and protecting everything in nature. The clarity of the central image, the “gliding” quatrains and the aptness and simplicity of the moral analogy have always been admired by critics and general readers alike. Thanatopsis; this is Brant’s best-known poem in the form of blank verse and with the theme of death. It follows the tradition of the English “graveyard school” and the central image is the “mighty sepulcher”, which will bring contentment to the dying, who knows there are countless people from all places and all time to share the great tomb of man. The title of the poem means “view of death.” The Raven:is a perfect illustration of his theory on poetry. A sense of melancholy over the death of a beloved beautiful young woman pervades the whole poem: the portrayal of a young man grieving for his lost Lenore, his grief being turned to madness under the steady one-word repetition of the talking bird introduced right at the beginning of the poem To helen:it was inspired by the beauty of a young mother of poes schoolmate. The poem is famous for its rhyme scheme, its varied lengths,and its metaphor and so on