YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :2 Poems by Emily Dickinson
Essays 601 - 630
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 ...
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 ...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...
and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses...
William Blakes "The Divine Image" have little in common, as the first poem relates a mystical enchantment of a knight with a super...
reflects both the poet and the readers changing perspectives that can only be achieved through a rational and nonprejudiced examin...
that this is "Her hardest hue to hold." The budding of plants at this time in the early spring is the shortest part of the seas...
of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...
to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...
Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...
has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...
In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at found poetry. Rossetti's "Goblin Market" is used to construct a found poem with fem...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Blake's The Chimney Sweeper. The Innocence and Experience versions of the poem are ...
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
(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...
This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
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...