YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :2 Poems by Robert Herrick Analyzed
Essays 451 - 480
"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...
to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...
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...
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
his own set of biases that he probably brought into the telling of the story, and it can be assumed that he did not have as good a...
the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...
"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...
not procreate indiscriminately but should rather follow Natures example and wait until circumstances are optimal in order to add t...
turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...
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...
beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...
find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...
monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...
mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...
in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...
poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...
cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...
kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...