YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :2 Carpe Diem Poems
Essays 211 - 240
uses is "disturb." the author is clearly shaken by this presence of someone else. This "someone" is likely his sister with whom he...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bly and Djanikian all wrote famous poems dealing with snow. This analysis looks at Snowflakes by Longf...
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...
time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...
fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...