Essays 121 - 150
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
was really blond, white and blue-eyed (Angelou 4). This feeling on Angelous part is highly related to the restrictions on black fr...
denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
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)...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...
As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...
Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...
shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
As this suggests, this psychologically complex poem portrays a pivotal exchange between two people who are trying to cope with los...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...
of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...
her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...
of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...
devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...
use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...