Essays 421 - 450
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
"Mending Wall" we have a very powerful look at what self reliance can do to an individual. It presents us with a picture of what s...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
Carolina, on July 22, 1967 at the age of 89. Although beloved during his lifetime, Sandburg remains a target of critical neglect ...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
apt description of reverie being that which is made up of a few simple things; and if those things are not available, well, reveri...
cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...
line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
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...
/ 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...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...
In five pages this paper examines how lines thirteen to twenty represent Edward Thomas' poem 'Lob' and also analyzes poetic devisi...
In five pages this essay offers a contrast and comparison of Theodore Roethke's poems 'The Waking' and 'I Knew a Woman' and A.A. A...
The writer discusses the fact that in Beowulf, which is the oldest poem in English, many of Beowulf's enemies are non-humans. Thes...
A 5 page esay reviewing the Robert Frost poem. This paper comments on both the strengths and the weaknesses of the poem. 1 sourc...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes," "This is My Letter to the World," "I Had Been Hungry," and "They Shut Me Up in Prose,"...
of the Muse to introduce its tale: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contendin...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the poem that asserts the spiritual themes of the poem are metaphorically portrayed by the trag...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...