YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :5 Poems Interpreted
Essays 721 - 750
though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...
but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...
prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...
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 ...
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...
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...
middle of a raid and rather than go through the trouble of proving he is an American chooses to run, and in this "jogging" event h...
and how they are seen by Wheatley as almost heavenly. She is clearly amazed at the figures and the power within these figures. Thi...
some reference to violence, in the course of the consummation of the marriage. There are, she notes, elaborate rhyming stanzas, th...
he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...
632). Thus, it is evident that the use of images is advancing the theme of coping with death. Fragile faces indicates those ...
now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...
and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and c...
into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...
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...
seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
her part. What she didnt know was that Zeus was responsible for thwarting her attempts at consummating her relationship with Odys...
action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...
about 1594 onward it is believed that he played with a group of actors, however: "written records give little indication of the wa...
of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...
devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...
As these examples illustrate, there are instances where there are definite Christian allusions in the text. Furthermore, at the be...
book, Ares is battling Diomedes; he thrusts at him but Athena knocks his spear away and Diomedes stabs the god. Ares flies up to O...
but the presence of Winter coming on is clearly a powerful element, or theme, in the poem as the narrator illustrates how he is re...
(4-5). This sounds like a childrens rhyme and as such would seem pleasant but the imagery is of blight, and death and then it pres...
When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...