Essays 451 - 480
to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...
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...
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
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 ...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...
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...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
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...
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...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
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...
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...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
In three pages this paper discusses an epic in terms of characteristics and how thee are expressed in literature and on film in a ...