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'This World is not Conclusion' by Emily Dickinson

question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

Poetic Explication of 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold

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

Meaning of 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...

'The Sundew' by A.C. Swinburne

of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...

'Calm' by Loma Crozier

pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...

Emily Dickinson's 'I Dwell in Possibility'

say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...

Epic 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Use of Symbolism

of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...

A Critique of Robert Frost's 'Acquainted with the Night'

about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

Literature and Dangerous Male Cultural Socialization

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...

Thematic Analysis of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

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...

Christian Dogma in Beowulf

one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...

Evil as Defined by 19th Century English Romantic Poet William Blake

abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...

'Anonymous A Ballad' by Sir Patrick Spence

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...

Friendship in Three Poems by Sappho

was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...

'When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman

the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...

Nature and Poetic Views Contrasted

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

Examination and Analysis of 'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening' and 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...

Science According to the Poems of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

'A Work of Artifice' by Marge Piercy

curlers, the hands you love to touch" (Piercy 75). a. The poem denotes cultural symbols. b. Symbols include bound feet an...

Sappho's 'To Evening' Analyzed

evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...

'Boundless Moment' by Robert Frost

and real images, illustrating his understanding of how poetics could work, how placement of words, creating imagery and also a str...

Poems of William Blake and Theodicy

is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...

Poetic Analysis of Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...

Dissonance in AJM Smith's 'The Lonely Land'

certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...

Prufrock's Character in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

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...

'Infant Joy' and 'Infant Sorrow' Poems by William Blake

on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...

Lovers Voices in 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'To His Coy Mistress'

he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...

Poets Philip Larkin and Robert Frost

In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...