YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Examination of Four Love Poems
Essays 1981 - 2010
5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...
its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...
various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...
as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...
title, the fact that he notes how the sea is history immediately makes the reader wonder. They may wonder about how the ocean is r...
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...
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...
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...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Americas historical experience with race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Who could be more appropriate for this task than one of our c...
the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey" (Angelou). In essence, we see Margaret excited and bearing no feelin...
Age of Reason: Experiencing the Poetry of Wordsworth and Keats). In this poem Keats also brings sounds into play in a very power...
generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...
demand. Kessbury does not employ rhyme in this stanza. In fact, he only employs rhyme once in the poem, in the last two lines, w...
in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...
the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...
occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...
about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...
as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...
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...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...