YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Examination of Four Love Poems
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from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
modernist writing was meant as a contrast to the traditional approach in that it could recognize how fast the world was changing a...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses the two parts of the poem by Parmenides, 'The Way of Truth' and 'The Way of Mortal Opinions'...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...
experience it for himself. As a teenager I would drive Fathers Chevrolet cross-country, given me...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...
pool one day. She thought about their lives and how they felt and realized they were victims of a society and also young me who de...
angry or even vengeful, but sedate and sullen. But, there is also the element of natural violence as well in the symbolic presence...
world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...
Hobson would never die as long as he was on the move. Until his revolution was at stay, in the sense of a ball which has stopped s...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places...
Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...
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...
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...
brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...
"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...
When someone mentions "the road not taken" or "the road less traveled" it is often without any realization of Frosts famous poem, ...
Hughes indicates the basic characteristics of the music that a black man plays at a piano. The alliteration between "droning" and...
slumber to acts of resistance. However, Fischer demonstrates that Revere did make his famous ride and that the ride was signific...
writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...
would stay close to home and her beloved father, reading books and living a simple but personally rewarding life (LePrince de Beau...
to rid the Chinese Community Party of all of Maos rivals and enemies and to take control of their country through his leadership (...