Essays 151 - 180
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...
a whole. According to Hector, Paris has brought ruin on his people and has allowed his lust for women to drive him to insane actio...
works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...
best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...
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...
In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....
In three pages this essay examines how women are manufactured as described by Marge Piercy in this powerful poem. One source is c...
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...
a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...
since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...
of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
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...
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...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
In five pages this essay examines William Wordsworth's poetic substance and form as represented by the poem 'The World is Too Much...
really saw his last wife as a person in her own right, but rather regarded her just one more beautiful "object" that he owned and ...
This essay provides a reading of the classic Cummings' poem, "somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond." The aut...
In five pages this essay analyzes the theme of loneliness as it is presented in 'The Whitsun Weddings,' 'Toad's Revisited,' and 'M...
In five pages this essay ponders how religious faith in poetry represents the time periods in which it was composed in an examinat...