YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :5 Poems Interpreted
Essays 451 - 480
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...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
A 5 page examination of the Adrienne Rich poem. The experience of marriage as it is affected by constriction, theme, tone, narrat...
is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...
fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...
uses is "disturb." the author is clearly shaken by this presence of someone else. This "someone" is likely his sister with whom he...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bly and Djanikian all wrote famous poems dealing with snow. This analysis looks at Snowflakes by Longf...
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...
time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...
for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...
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...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...