YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :2 Poems by Emily Dickinson
Essays 511 - 540
(Brooks 9-15). The narrator is illustrating how the reader, or listener, who is likely Black would not have believed them had they...
reached/ was you" (Brooks 2-8). In this the reader is subtly illustrating how society, white American society perhaps, has control...
also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...
has planted a bomb. He sees a woman in a yellow jacket go in, then a man in dark glasses comes out; then two men in jeans talk for...
of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...
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...
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 ...
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...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....
unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...
being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...
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 ...
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...
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...
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...
This paper consists of five pages and discusses how Section 40 of the poem that features the bride analogy is enmeshed in the comp...
Objectification of humans is the focus of this poetic analysis of 'Pruned Tree' by Howard Moss, 'The Work Box' by Thomas Hardy and...
would be needed if the creature were simply to be taken as male), is female--as the focus on the "slow thighs" suggests--as well a...
In twelve pages this paper discusses the themes of an individual's responsibility in 'The Prophet' poem by Kahlil Gibran. Six sou...
In four pages this poetry explication considers the author's future world vision and anger regarding God....