Essays 31 - 60
trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...
it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...
future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...
in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...
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...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
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...
must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...
sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...
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accurately and appropriately described as of a "shared identity." However, that shared identity also has a level of uncertainty w...
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)...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...
line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...
faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...
when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...
exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Spenser's "Sonnet XXX". A mechanical analysis of the poem's devices is carried out,...
An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...
monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
This analysis consists of ten pages and considers the poem's relationship to the Romantic period and also compares and contasts th...
In a paper consists of five pages this poem contrasts and compares Orwell's essay and Sorrell's poem. There are no sources listed...
his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...
In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...
1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...