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-- "The Count your Masters known munificence/ Is ample warrant that no just preference/ Of mine for dowry will be disallowed" (lin...

few shots of a good looking, blue-eyed young man. There is the glare of the sunlight which is rather obvious. One shot shows this ...

few lines further on: "he...ventured on foot, attired in his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into the m...

Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...

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 simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...

so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...

actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...

latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...

done if they are to change their existence. She wonders if its possible for women to ever be truly happy. She wonders if existence...

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...

between blacks and whites. The mother, in her simple yet compelling tone, does not want to see her son succumb to racially-relate...

to an era gone by as well as to the present time. The poem begins "Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Are sharpening...

mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...

and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

in the literature, making it difficult for research to validate the pedagogy" (Barrett). It is her basic purpose in writing this p...

that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...

other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...

the foreground. While the sight of a butcher shop would be quite familiar to Antwerp citizens, Houghton points out that prior to "...

at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...