YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Homers Epic Poem The Odyssey
Essays 511 - 540
know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...
of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...
and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...
sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
man knows truth. How can this be? It is through the very essence of man, through the essence of the tree and of flowers and of dog...
between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...
world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...
against an actual flower. However, if one will recall, during this time in history in which Frost wrote, the phone had just been i...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...
he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...
is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
A 5 page analysis of symbolism and structure in this interesting poem. An exploration of inner conflict, fluctuation and inconsis...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bly and Djanikian all wrote famous poems dealing with snow. This analysis looks at Snowflakes by Longf...
In 5 pages this paper presents an ideological analysis which compares Lanyer's text to Jonson's poem. Two sources are cited in th...
In five pages an analysis of this poem by Theodore Roethke is presented. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages this paper presents a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem 'Lady Lazarus.' Four pages are cited in the bibliogr...
traditionally transferred orally from one generation to another. The struggles of the slaves were captured in these work songs an...
In five pages Cesar Vallejo's 'Down to the Dregs' and an untitled Pablo Neruda poem are contrasted and compared in this analysis o...
everything has been parched almost to nonexistence. The stanza closes with a line from a German translation of Tristan and Isolde,...