Essays 541 - 570
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
for its wealth of atmospheric detail and rich symbolism. This makes them attractive to literary critics because there is a great d...
1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...
first case, the uniform will become old and tattered; if its the second meaning, then Shakespeare is commenting on the fact that a...
on the world (Vazsonyi 14). Browsing through Lukacss writing, it is clear that Novalis highly influenced his worldview and manner ...
Death, /Into the mouth of Hell / Rode the six hundred" (Tennyson, 1870). Still another type of poem shows death as sheer horror: ...
his force" (Behn 13-14). In her case she is a virgin who has finally, it seems, given in to the man Lisander, and is ready to give...
cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...
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)...
gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...
unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...
kingdom of heaven is similar to a field in which a man has sown good seed. The "good seed" are righteous people who will come to b...
action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
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...
in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...
selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...
ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...
but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...
The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
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...
we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...
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...
another meaning. Graham is a poet that inhabits tensions. Most of her work pushes at somehow trying to reconcile the inconsistenc...
(lines 3-4). It is clear that whatever aspirations that the woman had as a pianist have been supplanted by her role as a mother....
however, abruptly introduce us into the world he is from and although the average reader will have no knowledge of the accuracy of...
many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...
this new and different land. The paper predominantly examines the following poems: "Consider This and in Our Time (1930)," "Deaths...