YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Poem by Frost
Essays 1261 - 1290
She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...
mans mortality is Death itself. He walks among the graves and notes that the poorer people have flat markers and the more famous h...
include "back-yards graying / with knowledge, embankments blazoned / with pig-face whose hardihood / be theirs, / mantling with pu...
a shared, antagonistic experience, and in the process radicalized poetry. This is attributed to Ciardi and di Prima, who brought w...
of children and their behavior, their fears and victories. This paper compares and contrasts two of her poems, "The One Girl at th...
in spite of that, is often hopeful, even joyous. This paper explicates her poem "Million Man March." Discussion The theme of the ...
of the Puerto Rican dream to its death and the deaths of those who made up his poets society, but it is a stretch to say that it m...
Stood - A Loaded Gun," has been described as her most difficult. This paper discusses the poem with regard to its meaning and some...
considering they are the only words that are linked/combined with dashes, which clearly emphasizes their metaphorical nature. Rill...
States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cultures simultane...
party recite the poem removes the reader even further from the statue, lending it an even greater air of mystery and moving it fur...
the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
of Oisin is one of the most beautiful epics ever written. It is particularly rich in imagery, as Yates paints a word picture of 30...
original adventure stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on ...
also says that the flea is swollen with their blood (there is a strong suggestion here of the way male and female genitalia swell ...
but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...
1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...
accompanying poem begins, "Juans ax aches/His tracks lead backwards." The alliteration, assonance and consonance of his word choic...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti are quite different from one another. Ginsbergs long and sprawling lines certainly look nothing like Snyders...
her, reluctantly, to maintain these values. This argument is grounded in 17th century ideals of chivalry and courtly honor, ideals...
another boy who is bald and who cries. This boy has a dream which is very innocent and very uplifting for the boy for in that drea...
the placement of the poem, offers the reader a sense of innocence and childhood as well as purity. The poem begins with...
misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...
Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...
Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....
other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...