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and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...

born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...

argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...

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

the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...

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...

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...

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

For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...

this book. Baca runs the gamut of emotions in this text that is true, but what the reader finds within Healing Earthquakes is onl...

Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spiders web...

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

shipwreck (Anonymous, 2002; Junaidul, 2000). Wordsworth worked out his grief over this event in several poems, most notably the "E...

own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...

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...

Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...

that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...

narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...

Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

located in West Seattle; his patients are mostly urban and poor ("Peter Pereira"). On the literary front, he has been published...

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

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...

strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...