Essays 91 - 120
It does not love flesh. It leaves a ring of cold in the wound." On the surface of this particular stanza,...
however, and we begin to feel that the poem will clearly focus on some political argument. He then introduces the word "white" ...
In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....
In five pages the symbolism of master and slave is applied to the destructive marital relationship described in the poem....
"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...
A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...
beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...
popularity until his death. It is true that his poetry reflects a growing resentment of his critics and an apparent acceptance of...
In two pages this essay analyzes this love poem in terms of the poet's descriptive language and its emotional attributes. There i...
to Literature. 11th ed. Eds. Barnet, Sylvan, et al. New York: Longman, 1997. 723-724. RESEARCH OWNED & PUBLISHED GLOBALLY BY THE P...
This essay provides a reading of the classic Cummings' poem, "somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond." The aut...
In five pages this essay analyzes the theme of loneliness as it is presented in 'The Whitsun Weddings,' 'Toad's Revisited,' and 'M...
In five pages this essay ponders how religious faith in poetry represents the time periods in which it was composed in an examinat...
In five pages this essay analyzes this poem and the impacts of connecting to a particular place on human relationships. There is ...
In eleven pages this essay explicates Keats' nineteenth century poem in a consideration of life experiences, language, and poetic ...
In five pages this essay examines William Wordsworth's poetic substance and form as represented by the poem 'The World is Too Much...
really saw his last wife as a person in her own right, but rather regarded her just one more beautiful "object" that he owned and ...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...
of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...
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...
sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...
In three pages this essay examines how women are manufactured as described by Marge Piercy in this powerful poem. One source is c...
me leading wherever I choose. Out of the Cradle is a much slower-moving poem. It begins with the poet recalling a childhood ...
accurately and appropriately described as of a "shared identity." However, that shared identity also has a level of uncertainty w...
best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...
In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....