Essays 31 - 60
trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...
a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...
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...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
accurately and appropriately described as of a "shared identity." However, that shared identity also has a level of uncertainty w...
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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...
in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
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)...
sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...
must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...
line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...
exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...
This analysis consists of ten pages and considers the poem's relationship to the Romantic period and also compares and contasts th...
faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Spenser's "Sonnet XXX". A mechanical analysis of the poem's devices is carried out,...
the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...
when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...
monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...
was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...
This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...
In six pages this paper discusses the dark side of social commentary and how the writers reflect their respective societies in Tom...
In five pages this essay offers a contrast and comparison of Theodore Roethke's poems 'The Waking' and 'I Knew a Woman' and A.A. A...