Essays 421 - 450
form the personality of the poet as narrator. As the reader gets to know the narrative voice, it also becomes clear that a pervasi...
ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...
begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...
the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...
Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales in 1914 (Abrams, et al 1907). Early in 1933, when he was nineteen years old. Thomas sent two of ...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...
a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...
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 ...
merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...
this book. Baca runs the gamut of emotions in this text that is true, but what the reader finds within Healing Earthquakes is onl...
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...
to is none other than that of the Romantic period. The person who considered himself a romantic, too, would question some of life...
whatever virtue she may still retain intact. Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles...
ignorant about its history. He is also a simple fisherman. The conflict in the story predominately revolves around Achille and Hec...
poetry as the stresses. It is because of this particular styling that syllabic poems most often contain no rhyme or uniform numbe...
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
while it is possible to sum up each of these poems with a single sentence, to cover even half the book would entail over a hundred...