Essays 481 - 510
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 ...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
lays dead. No individual has truly come to help him save for one youth, Wiglaf. In these particular lines we note the following: "...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...
argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...
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)...
of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...
But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...
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 ...
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...
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...
faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...
break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...
the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...
narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...
the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...
people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...