YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Homers Epic Poem The Odyssey
Essays 1291 - 1320
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 rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
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...
woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...
and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...
seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...
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...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...
/ 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 ...
uses is "disturb." the author is clearly shaken by this presence of someone else. This "someone" is likely his sister with whom he...
so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...
the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...
about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...
to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...