YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of 2 of Elizabeth Daryushs Poems
Essays 121 - 150
"the poem asserts that the only resolution in the modern world is irresolution. Hence, The Triumph of Life becomes a latter-day at...
must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
of the Muse to introduce its tale: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contendin...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
"Mending Wall" we have a very powerful look at what self reliance can do to an individual. It presents us with a picture of what s...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...