YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Homers Epic Poem The Odyssey
Essays 511 - 540
woman. The narrator states, for example, "If the skies illuminate/ trasluces of paradise,/ islands of color of ed?n,/ it is that i...
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)...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
This paper offers a summary, analysis and background information on Rafeef Ziadah's poem "Shades of Anger," which expresses the po...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
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...
haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...
of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "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...
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 ...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...
Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...
stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...
in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...
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...
each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...
The ways in which logic is employed to seduce women are discussed in a six page comparative analysis of the poems 'To His Coy Mist...
In three pages the literary devices of simile, metaphor, rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration are used in a comparative analysis of the...
An analysis of this poem and what it reveals about the life and poetry of Walt Whitman is presented in five pages. Attached are 4...
In one page the 'dream' referred to in the poem is subjected to a sociopolitical analysis. There is no bibliography included....