Essays 271 - 300
expression in the sections of the poem where the persona deals with happy memories, and the sharpness and abruptness of those wher...
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 ...
of sounds within any language, the speakers in a language community all feel that certain sounds either "the same" or "different" ...
until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...
This 3 page paper discusses three of Wordsworth's poems, "The World is too Much with Us," "Composed on Westminster Bridge," and "I...
says Sandburg, none of that matters; what matters is that the grass will eventually cover up the battlefields, the dead, the blood...
While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...
the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...
powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...
my brain. Never show fear (Free verse) Animals and small children know when youre afraid. They growl and bite, or cry and fight ...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...
break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...
This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....
how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...
a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...
or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...
his force" (Behn 13-14). In her case she is a virgin who has finally, it seems, given in to the man Lisander, and is ready to give...
unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...
mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...
paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlords"; it is the y...
could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...
has planted a bomb. He sees a woman in a yellow jacket go in, then a man in dark glasses comes out; then two men in jeans talk for...
of children and their behavior, their fears and victories. This paper compares and contrasts two of her poems, "The One Girl at th...