Essays 121 - 150
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...
other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...
has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...
this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...
Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...
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...
As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...
consider myself a failed woman and a failed poet, or to try to find some synthesis by which to understand what was happening to me...
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devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...
of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...
of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...
her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...
In three pages this essay examines how women are manufactured as described by Marge Piercy in this powerful poem. One source is c...
me leading wherever I choose. Out of the Cradle is a much slower-moving poem. It begins with the poet recalling a childhood ...
accurately and appropriately described as of a "shared identity." However, that shared identity also has a level of uncertainty w...
best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...
In two pages this essay analyzes this love poem in terms of the poet's descriptive language and its emotional attributes. There i...
popularity until his death. It is true that his poetry reflects a growing resentment of his critics and an apparent acceptance of...
In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....
a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...
This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...
This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...
In one page this essay analyzes Dickinson's poem in terms of symbolism, imagery, and theme with an evaluation of her employment of...