Essays 121 - 150
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...
As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...
In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...
of the Puerto Rican dream to its death and the deaths of those who made up his poets society, but it is a stretch to say that it m...
This essay answers three question. The first pertains to the arguments presented to Achilles on why he should fight, the second li...
became sterile and meaningless. (Because of the variety and relative obscurity of Eliots allusions, readers must work through the ...
This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...
This essay pertains to the poetry of Robert Frost and discusses two poems: "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy...
This research paper/essay discusses the "Iliad" and the "Aeneid" as two epic poems that mirror the values of Greek and Roman socie...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
to Yvain goes even further than the loan of the invisibility ring. Lunette considers an alliance between her lady and Yvain to be ...
questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...
Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...
shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...
as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...
serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...
questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...
17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...
(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...
in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...
poem despite the metaphysical airs assumed by Michael Robartes. In this poem, Yeats expresses the concept that can be concisely ...
future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...
This essay presents a comprehensive overview of the poem that analyzes its content and draws on scholarly opinion as substantiatio...
This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...
This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". Short essay responses to discuss...