Essays 451 - 480
from these early stanzas that Lizzie is somewhat stronger - she is aware of the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit. It is ...
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...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
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 ...
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...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
The writer discusses the fact that in Beowulf, which is the oldest poem in English, many of Beowulf's enemies are non-humans. Thes...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the poem that asserts the spiritual themes of the poem are metaphorically portrayed by the trag...
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...
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...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...
In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
"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...
question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...