Essays 121 - 150
Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....
other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...
how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...
writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...
a whole. According to Hector, Paris has brought ruin on his people and has allowed his lust for women to drive him to insane actio...
This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...
has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...
this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...
Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...
As these examples illustrate, there are instances where there are definite Christian allusions in the text. Furthermore, at the be...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...
accurately and appropriately described as of a "shared identity." However, that shared identity also has a level of uncertainty w...
In three pages this essay examines how women are manufactured as described by Marge Piercy in this powerful poem. One source is c...
me leading wherever I choose. Out of the Cradle is a much slower-moving poem. It begins with the poet recalling a childhood ...
In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....
a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...
In two pages this essay analyzes this love poem in terms of the poet's descriptive language and its emotional attributes. There i...
popularity until his death. It is true that his poetry reflects a growing resentment of his critics and an apparent acceptance of...