YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :2 Poems by Robert Herrick Analyzed
Essays 181 - 210
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...
and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...
When someone mentions "the road not taken" or "the road less traveled" it is often without any realization of Frosts famous poem, ...
Her 1999 volume of poetry, "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" exemplifies the ways in which Dove captures a moment, sees it for what it ...
in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...
the Berlin wall. And we also know that there will be just a "touch" of whimsy about the poem, when it begins with "something ther...
one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth; / Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the bett...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...
This paper consists of six pages and reveals how familiar situations and places are used by the poet to reveal the alienation the ...
how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...
enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...
An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
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 dance, of course, is that Theodore loves it, despite the fact it is somewhat rough-and-tumble; Roethke observes that "at every...
to his section describing the scene. He writes "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/ Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipe...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
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 reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
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 ...
about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...
In five pages the symbolism of master and slave is applied to the destructive marital relationship described in the poem....
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
and women to enjoy each other. The Philosophical Viewpoints We want to relate the conflict and the writings to various philosop...
Love and death as found in these works by Herrick and Marvell are discussed. Both poets display ideas about time and living in the...
Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...