Essays 541 - 570
This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontent, as well as the influence t...
(lines 3-4). It is clear that whatever aspirations that the woman had as a pianist have been supplanted by her role as a mother....
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...
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...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
kingdom of heaven is similar to a field in which a man has sown good seed. The "good seed" are righteous people who will come to b...
action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...
unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
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 ...
but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...
ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...
strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...
in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...
selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...
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...
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...
we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...
and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...
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...
In this essay that consists of three pages the technique and lyricism of Weeded and I Hoed and Trenched is compared with the emoti...
In nine pages postmodernism is discussed within the historigraphical context of the poemen 'The Meaning of the I Ching' and 'Pictu...
The ways in which logic is employed to seduce women are discussed in a six page comparative analysis of the poems 'To His Coy Mist...