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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...

interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...

Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...

The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...

the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

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...

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

his own set of biases that he probably brought into the telling of the story, and it can be assumed that he did not have as good a...

the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Af...

sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...

see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...

to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...

When someone mentions "the road not taken" or "the road less traveled" it is often without any realization of Frosts famous poem, ...

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...

old and his first book at age 13 (Yarborough). In short, he was a prodigy who might have been destined for greater things, had he ...

exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...

his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...

Hobson would never die as long as he was on the move. Until his revolution was at stay, in the sense of a ball which has stopped s...

one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance ...

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...

not procreate indiscriminately but should rather follow Natures example and wait until circumstances are optimal in order to add t...

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, ...

turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...