Essays 61 - 90
is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...
Her 1999 volume of poetry, "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" exemplifies the ways in which Dove captures a moment, sees it for what it ...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
Indeed, it is these characteristics which may account for Yeats continuing appeal to readers who dont normally pay much attention ...
heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...
she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...
fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...
of the Muse to introduce its tale: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contendin...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...
San Fransico but he would grow up primarily in Massachusetts where he, his siblings, and his mother would move to after the death ...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
the hierarchy, to base matter, at its lowest level, with man and the natural world between the two, and Donnes commentary reflects...
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
result is that he was able to craft a poem such as "Assisi" which has a gentle yet pointed grace and, as Brodie points out, a "dec...
Additionally, Dickinson makes creative use of punctuation to create dramatic pauses between lines, as well as within them. The ...
cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...
The urn it seems, inanimate or not, is alive in some peculiar sense. In...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
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...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...