Essays 361 - 390
Its clear this feminist perspective seeks no harm, but merely wishes to illuminate her celebration of women. Specificall...
depict the changing of the seasons not only as they relate to nature but as they relate to humans as mortals as well (Nelson). Poe...
scared woman. While she is now grown and teetering on the brink of emotional despair, she recalls both the idolatry and anger of ...
for repetition and free flowing verse to express his ideas and was considered not only exceptional because of these elements but a...
sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...
stresses and also spondaic emphasis on the phrase "this years snow." Still other lines mix and match rhythm patterns so that the o...
the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...
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. ...
In Sonnet 72, it becomes evident that the initial sexual flush is still very much in evidence, but the references to the distant h...
poet of nature. For example, "The instinct of Wordsworth was to interpret all the operations of nature by those of his own strenuo...
The urn it seems, inanimate or not, is alive in some peculiar sense. In...
("Deconstruction"). For this reason, deconstructionists focus on very close and careful readings of particular texts, and can also...
Lord once of shed, garage and garden, Each with its proper compliment of tackle"...
to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...
that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popul...
and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...
is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods...
the trees brings back an plethora of memories for the poet, images of himself as a "swinger of birches," when life was not so comp...
seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...
reflect an attitude of equality instead of segregation between blacks and whites; however, inasmuch as much as humanity has succes...
employs descriptive words to create in the reader an appreciation for the reality of nature. This is not to imply that these poets...
the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...
May new buds and flowers shall bring; (I)/ Ah! why has happiness--no second Spring? (I)" (Smith 1-14). As we can note, at least...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
In this we are set up with a very quiet and harmless love that is only waiting for consummation. It is a pleasant little scene tha...
important, yet we are not really told who it is. We are puzzled at one point for the narrator uses the word I in such a way that i...
behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out...
be expected that the earlier writing would be more explicit, because of Augustus reputation for demanding morality. This is not t...
own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...
Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...