YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :5 Poems Interpreted
Essays 691 - 720
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...
help keep me in New York against coercion/ but now Im happy for a time and interested" (OHara 1-8). This is sort of a free form...
curlers, the hands you love to touch" (Piercy 75). a. The poem denotes cultural symbols. b. Symbols include bound feet an...
are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
and real images, illustrating his understanding of how poetics could work, how placement of words, creating imagery and also a str...
as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...
without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...
than they did many years ago, that people who appear happy and content are not always happy and content. Being wealthy and handsom...
a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...
itself and thus establish its own limits" (261). This, necessarily, involves the collapse of boundaries, which can be "sexual, nat...
oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...
his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...
in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...
In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...
keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...
suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...
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...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
to have stood, though free to fall" (Milton Book III). In this we see that Adam had the freedom to make a choice, and in that free...
that is illustrating the power that was possessed by these women, but not the power that the men and women of the time thought the...
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 ...
prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...
a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...
spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...
against an actual flower. However, if one will recall, during this time in history in which Frost wrote, the phone had just been i...
boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...