YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of 4 poems by Robert Frost
Essays 391 - 420
industrial revolution and the transition to a coal-fired economy" (Pan). Roberts points out that the shift from an agrarian econom...
beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...
world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...
lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
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...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...
sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...
know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...
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...
Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...
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...
merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...
is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...
With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...