Essays 121 - 150
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...
Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....
other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...
Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...
how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...
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...
without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...
As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...
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...
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)...
a whole. According to Hector, Paris has brought ruin on his people and has allowed his lust for women to drive him to insane actio...
denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...
was really blond, white and blue-eyed (Angelou 4). This feeling on Angelous part is highly related to the restrictions on black fr...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...
writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...