Essays 481 - 510
But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
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 ...
of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
"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...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
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 ...
on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...
himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
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...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...
be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...
1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...