Essays 151 - 180
between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...
world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...
man knows truth. How can this be? It is through the very essence of man, through the essence of the tree and of flowers and of dog...
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...
how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...
know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...
ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...
of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...
Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...
a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...
merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...
"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...
one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
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...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
Goldsmith, who sees Beowulf as being addressed to the "powerful" and designed to "warn them of the dangers attendant upon power" (...
In five pages an analysis of this poem by Theodore Roethke is presented. There are no other sources listed....
A 5 page analysis of the poem by Robert Frost. Frost is an expert at utlizing words to make even the most simplistic concepts see...
In three pages the literary devices of simile, metaphor, rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration are used in a comparative analysis of the...
In three pages this comparative poetic analysis considers the meaning achieved through metaphors in each poem. There are no other...
An analysis of this poem and what it reveals about the life and poetry of Walt Whitman is presented in five pages. Attached are 4...
the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...