Essays 61 - 90
is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...
$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...
the sea, suggests a love of nature, as is evocative of natures beauty. Secondly, Sappho connected this image with memory, which su...
affected her personally. This is exemplified in her poem fragment that scholars have numbered 93. The poem begins with the injunc...
he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....
"I am the people, the mob." In this, we share a similar sentiment. However, your work expresses a much more accepting and optimist...
the gods high-heeled walking wounded" (pp. 239). She was born in Boston, the daughter of a university professor and one of his gra...
savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...
In five pages this paper examines how Houston promotes drama and literature through theater and writers groups and considers their...
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...
beginning, feels like he is in a position of complete helplessness. His father has been gone nearly 20 years and he is forced to d...
of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...
experienced. In A Divine Image the narrator illustrates aspects of human nature that are very clearly connected to the darkest s...
Robert Frost is highly regarded as a master poet. His ability to explore complex social and cultural issues by using rural everyda...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti are quite different from one another. Ginsbergs long and sprawling lines certainly look nothing like Snyders...
of publicly responding to criticisms over his exclusion of Owen that Yeats made the remark in question (Rusche, 2010). His primary...
and white, life and death, happiness and sadness, rich (white majority) and poor (black minority) to express social injustice and ...
of dealing with this new and frightening situation (Modernism, 2002). The modernist poets had a much more disillusioned worldview ...
to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...
with subjects such as science, as well as religion and morality (Bradstreet, Anne Dudley (1612?-1672)). "However, her best poems d...
mere lust, but sacred and precious. Therefore, he constructed a poetic dialogue that would "provide this decisive encounter with ...
looked at the human experience through natures eyes. The landscape was Roethkes own life, and his experiences were the word pictu...
those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...
are sticky and crusted, open sores, and other elements that suggest a physical representation of a dream. This makes the dream som...
of my grandmother a desolate and lonely cemetery. Another possibility could be: The black jeep roared to life Jumping buckling...
on all aspects of Transcendentalism in one way or another, for her poetry was very much that which developed as Emily herself went...
help keep me in New York against coercion/ but now Im happy for a time and interested" (OHara 1-8). This is sort of a free form...
her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...
printers apprentice and then went on to work as a journeyman printer and a teacher (Books and Writers). Following that period of...