Essays 391 - 420
"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...
know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...
their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...
how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...
the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...
the midst of conversation, a factor that appears to be typical of Longfellows verse. The entirety of the poem, while formally stru...
in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...
the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...
in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
from these early stanzas that Lizzie is somewhat stronger - she is aware of the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit. It is ...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
of life in our worldly form, of the power of the many mystical forces of our universe, and the concepts of reincarnation and life ...
to discern the "inexhaustible richness of consciousness itself" (Wacker 16). In other words, the poetry in fascicle 28 presents ...
of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...
argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...
of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...
a feast of rejoicing, as well as to keep himself clean and well groomed; he is to cherish his children and his wife (Radcliffe PG)...
propelling them forward, as does the rhyme and the rhythm. The steady short-long cadence of the rhythm is, in this context, like a...
smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....