YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Examination of Four Love Poems
Essays 1411 - 1440
to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
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)...
won your town the race x / x /...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...
the years of the decade of the 1990s, conventional wisdom held that interest rates must always be linked to the "boom and bust" bu...
strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...
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...
be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...
between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...
Americas historical experience with race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Who could be more appropriate for this task than one of our c...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey" (Angelou). In essence, we see Margaret excited and bearing no feelin...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
systems (Miner 362). The first of these styles is exploitative-authoritative. Here there is a more autocratic styles. Leadership...
have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...
as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...
men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
that is illustrating the power that was possessed by these women, but not the power that the men and women of the time thought the...
said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...
this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...
prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...
though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...
/ Is an unlessond girl, unschoold, unpractisd; / Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she may learn; happier than this, / Sh...