YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Examination of Four Love Poems
Essays 2071 - 2100
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...
(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...
"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...
The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...
the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...
a child will enjoy it to some extent, but it is safe to say that this poem was not intended for the young, though it may very well...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance ...
girl who is rejected by nearly everyone. In fact, so too is her family as the lot of them is cursed with ugliness and rejection. ...
gaps I mean,/ No one has seen them made or heard them made,/ But at spring mending-time we find them there" (Frost 9-11). In th...
means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
considers himself to be a far more civilised specimen of the human race than the Yahoos, he cannot deny that their way of life is ...
is presumably a nurse, and the nurse arrives at an individuals house at five in the morning: "At five in the morning/ I knock on h...
turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...
Increased number of women enrolling in higher education * Technological Environment * Technological advancements * Pervasiveness o...
of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...
sort of image of things that awe us. Even in these two simple words we are presented with a magical picture of a time of harvest, ...
a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...
seventeenth century in his impressive text of nearly 800 pages entitled, Religion and the Decline of Magic. Thomas demonstrated h...
blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...
and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...
of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effect, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be ...