Essays 541 - 570
another meaning. Graham is a poet that inhabits tensions. Most of her work pushes at somehow trying to reconcile the inconsistenc...
an exploration of what it means to be an American. "A mountain-born, country-bred,homegrown jibara child,up from the shtetl, a Ca...
be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...
a wondrous season. In this poem Keats also brings sounds into play in a very powerful manner that speaks to us of nature and of...
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...
this new and different land. The paper predominantly examines the following poems: "Consider This and in Our Time (1930)," "Deaths...
this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...
The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...
we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...
his force" (Behn 13-14). In her case she is a virgin who has finally, it seems, given in to the man Lisander, and is ready to give...
located in West Seattle; his patients are mostly urban and poor ("Peter Pereira"). On the literary front, he has been published...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
Death, /Into the mouth of Hell / Rode the six hundred" (Tennyson, 1870). Still another type of poem shows death as sheer horror: ...
first case, the uniform will become old and tattered; if its the second meaning, then Shakespeare is commenting on the fact that a...
on the world (Vazsonyi 14). Browsing through Lukacss writing, it is clear that Novalis highly influenced his worldview and manner ...
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
for its wealth of atmospheric detail and rich symbolism. This makes them attractive to literary critics because there is a great d...
cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...
1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...
gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...
soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...
In this essay that consists of three pages the technique and lyricism of Weeded and I Hoed and Trenched is compared with the emoti...