YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :2 Poems by Roman Poet Catullus
Essays 1081 - 1110
This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....
being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
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...
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....
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...
implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...
song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...
the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
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...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...
"Mending Wall" we have a very powerful look at what self reliance can do to an individual. It presents us with a picture of what s...
that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...
to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...
about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...