Essays 481 - 510
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...
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...
the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...
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...
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...
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 ...
has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...
at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...
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...
to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...
God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...
Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...
to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
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...
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...
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...
readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...