YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Homers Epic Poem The Odyssey
Essays 511 - 540
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
This paper offers a summary, analysis and background information on Rafeef Ziadah's poem "Shades of Anger," which expresses the po...
How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...
Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...
each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...
She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...
Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...
ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...
time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
woman. The narrator states, for example, "If the skies illuminate/ trasluces of paradise,/ islands of color of ed?n,/ it is that i...
he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...
the midst of conversation, a factor that appears to be typical of Longfellows verse. The entirety of the poem, while formally stru...
in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...
the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...
a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo"(Plath...
oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...
how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...