Essays 541 - 570
says Sandburg, none of that matters; what matters is that the grass will eventually cover up the battlefields, the dead, the blood...
The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...
educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...
died. The poet feels that the entire world, in fact, should be in mourning as even "public doves" should have "crepe bows" around ...
expression in the sections of the poem where the persona deals with happy memories, and the sharpness and abruptness of those wher...
of sounds within any language, the speakers in a language community all feel that certain sounds either "the same" or "different" ...
that is the shortest day of the year; we can feel the cold, the deep silence of the woods during a snowfall, the solitude and the ...
to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...
for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
gloves" (Auden 8). Tone As one critic states, "The tone of a poem is roughly equivalent to the mood it creates in the reader" ...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...
night returning, anew began ruthless murder; he recked no whit, / firm in his guilt, of the feud and crime" (II 12-22). When Hrot...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...
matter? Good-looking, of course, dark hair, rather matted; the reddish beard several shades lighter; with very deep lines round th...
focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...
which is extremely faulty, shows that she is easily corrupted. Her first instinct on eating of the forbidden fruit is to entice ...
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...
a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...
Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...
are happy and playing and skipping and singing, that seems to make sense but is very lilting and nonsensical in many ways. This is...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...