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 ...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...
(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...
like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...
"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...
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...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...
that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...
enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...
he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...