YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :2 Original Poems
Essays 901 - 930
occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...
in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...
women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...
the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...
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...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...
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...
men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
that is illustrating the power that was possessed by these women, but not the power that the men and women of the time thought the...
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 ...
I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...
be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...
strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...
man knows truth. How can this be? It is through the very essence of man, through the essence of the tree and of flowers and of dog...
William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...
pool one day. She thought about their lives and how they felt and realized they were victims of a society and also young me who de...
won your town the race x / x /...
between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...
world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...
angry or even vengeful, but sedate and sullen. But, there is also the element of natural violence as well in the symbolic presence...