Essays 271 - 300
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
human emotions or actions to nature or inanimate objects. Porphyrias Lover (Robert Browning) We might label this dramatic monolo...
With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
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...
about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...
against an actual flower. However, if one will recall, during this time in history in which Frost wrote, the phone had just been i...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...
stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...
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)...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...
In 3 pages a thematic examination and analysis of technique employed by Robert Frost in his poem 'The Road Not Taken' are presente...
In six pages this paper discusses how inequality is strengthened through repressing anger about gender roles and sexuality in a ps...
How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...
In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...
In seven and a half pages this poet's life, poetry, and activism are examined in an analysis that focuses primarily upon 'Power,' ...
The transcendentalism of Walt Whitman is discussed in a paper consisting of seven pages which focuses upon analysis of the poem 'S...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...