YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Examination of Four Love Poems
Essays 151 - 180
This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...
In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...
optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...
somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...
poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...
could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
of life in our worldly form, of the power of the many mystical forces of our universe, and the concepts of reincarnation and life ...
different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...
being a man./ And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie/ houses/ dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt/ steer...
often simply a reality that was accepted as part of life. It did not necessarily make people angry or bitter or resentful in a con...
envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...
1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...
his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...
this there are opposites that indicate the narrator is confused and lost and in something of a frenzy to find some balance, and id...
of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...
they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...
But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...
scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...
a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...
(VII). In this he is telling Beowulf that he had many apparently noble men claiming they would get rid of the beast but they drank...
11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...
the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...
the later part of the 19th century, who witnessed much of Chicagos history. He saw it in the early days of the 20th century when w...
that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...
present us with the sheer power of the sea. Now, as mentioned, these lines, filled with imagery, can be seen from many symbolic ...
girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...