YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Poem Comparison Frost Hughes
Essays 511 - 540
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
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...
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...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
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...
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 title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
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...
/ 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 ...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
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...
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...
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...
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...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
In six pages this paper analyzes the classic elements of the poems 'Letter to F...,' 'Lenore,' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe....