Essays 151 - 180
road that was not as well traveled. The grass being green and not trampled tells the reader that few people coming to that crossro...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...
of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...
But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...
one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth; / Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the bett...
to his section describing the scene. He writes "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/ Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipe...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
"Mending Wall" we have a very powerful look at what self reliance can do to an individual. It presents us with a picture of what s...
the fact that the burden of responsibility for success now rests entirely on the dreamers shoulders. There is no one else who shar...
In three pages this paper discusses an epic in terms of characteristics and how thee are expressed in literature and on film in a ...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...
to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...
be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...
In five pages this paper analyzes Gwendolyn Brooks' poems including 'We Real Cool' and 'Kitchenette Building' in a consideration o...
This paper analyzes one of Frost's poems, Acquainted With The Night. The author addresses both thematic elements and structure. ...