Essays 271 - 300
American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...
Dry chlorine compound - just a small drop - then melts upon the loop. Letter F - a sixty degree refractive angle hollow prism - i...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...
each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...
She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...
his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
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...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
type is, at its heart, an examination of the way we attend to, bring order to, and make decisions about our awareness. If this is ...
of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...
in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...
a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...
and real images, illustrating his understanding of how poetics could work, how placement of words, creating imagery and also a str...
curlers, the hands you love to touch" (Piercy 75). a. The poem denotes cultural symbols. b. Symbols include bound feet an...
is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...
woman. The narrator states, for example, "If the skies illuminate/ trasluces of paradise,/ islands of color of ed?n,/ it is that i...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...
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)...