Essays 631 - 660
hobo before he was twenty, and even served a rotation in the Spanish-American War(Academy of Poets). This experience was...
be expected that the earlier writing would be more explicit, because of Augustus reputation for demanding morality. This is not t...
shipwreck (Anonymous, 2002; Junaidul, 2000). Wordsworth worked out his grief over this event in several poems, most notably the "E...
San Fransico but he would grow up primarily in Massachusetts where he, his siblings, and his mother would move to after the death ...
The truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths...
poem. The rhyming pattern is alternately free form and occasional standard abab. It follows the pattern of iambic pentameter of ...
was the spirit of Zen, as he drew his imagery from the "taproots" of the earth, the presence of a moment (Hassain, 1995). The "su...
Friendship, within which the members each assumed classical pseudonyms. Katherine was known as Orinda," and in her "her poetry, sh...
Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spiders web...
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...
For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...
this book. Baca runs the gamut of emotions in this text that is true, but what the reader finds within Healing Earthquakes is onl...
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...
see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...
born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...
loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...
argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...
ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...
the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...
and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...
smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...
this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...
strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...
an exploration of what it means to be an American. "A mountain-born, country-bred,homegrown jibara child,up from the shtetl, a Ca...
and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...
4 sonnets by Browning. We discuss them separately and then provide a comparison and contrast of their works. Mariana Tennysons...
in a fight for their own survival and right to exist, and that the simple things in life, those things that really count for more,...