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In six pages this paper examines how the growing up experience is presented in an explication of Gwendolyn Brooks' poems 'The Ball...

the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...

interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...

merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...

is presumably a nurse, and the nurse arrives at an individuals house at five in the morning: "At five in the morning/ I knock on h...

"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...

blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...

know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...

Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...

"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...

a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...

one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance ...

of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...

a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...

seventeenth century in his impressive text of nearly 800 pages entitled, Religion and the Decline of Magic. Thomas demonstrated h...

sort of image of things that awe us. Even in these two simple words we are presented with a magical picture of a time of harvest, ...

Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...

The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...

(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...

the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Af...

sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...

woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...

their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...