Essays 331 - 360
how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
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...
one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...
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...
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...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
In 5 pages this paper presents an ideological analysis which compares Lanyer's text to Jonson's poem. Two sources are cited in th...
everything has been parched almost to nonexistence. The stanza closes with a line from a German translation of Tristan and Isolde,...
That this was an accepted practice makes it no less a neglectful situation; in fact, it only serves to set up the child in a more ...
just a few words (McConnell). The first stanza shows the thesis. The soul or the individual person is sovereign in deciding who ...
An explication of William Butler Yeats' poem 'Leda and the Swan' includes analysis of allusion, situation, character, and tone con...
In four pages this paper presents an analysis of the imagery featured in these poems. There are no other sources listed....
In one page this analysis of the poem 'Out, Out' focuses upon poetic verse, imagery, and theme. There is no bibliography included...
In one page the 'dream' referred to in the poem is subjected to a sociopolitical analysis. There is no bibliography included....
In five pages an analysis of this poem by Theodore Roethke is presented. There are no other sources listed....
Goldsmith, who sees Beowulf as being addressed to the "powerful" and designed to "warn them of the dangers attendant upon power" (...
In five pages this paper discusses making the most out of each day in an analysis of the poem 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marv...
accurately and appropriately described as of a "shared identity." However, that shared identity also has a level of uncertainty w...
The ways in which logic is employed to seduce women are discussed in a six page comparative analysis of the poems 'To His Coy Mist...
oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...
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...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...
between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...