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and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...

unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...

However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...

This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....

how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...

a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...

who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...

for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...

wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...

are happy and playing and skipping and singing, that seems to make sense but is very lilting and nonsensical in many ways. This is...

to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...

educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...

died. The poet feels that the entire world, in fact, should be in mourning as even "public doves" should have "crepe bows" around ...

that is the shortest day of the year; we can feel the cold, the deep silence of the woods during a snowfall, the solitude and the ...

of sounds within any language, the speakers in a language community all feel that certain sounds either "the same" or "different" ...

denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...

expression in the sections of the poem where the persona deals with happy memories, and the sharpness and abruptness of those wher...

Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...

be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...

This 3 page paper discusses three of Wordsworth's poems, "The World is too Much with Us," "Composed on Westminster Bridge," and "I...

powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

says Sandburg, none of that matters; what matters is that the grass will eventually cover up the battlefields, the dead, the blood...

the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...

are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...

First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...