YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 301 - 330
the midst of conversation, a factor that appears to be typical of Longfellows verse. The entirety of the poem, while formally stru...
in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...
against an actual flower. However, if one will recall, during this time in history in which Frost wrote, the phone had just been i...
be seen as a defining moment; the choosing between right and right. There may be several aspects that are considered. Firstly, the...
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...
keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...
a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
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...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...
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...
of incapacitation we see that it can fall into various categories: "Incapacitation may be selective (aimed at particular offender...
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...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
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...
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...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
woman. The narrator states, for example, "If the skies illuminate/ trasluces of paradise,/ islands of color of ed?n,/ it is that i...
curlers, the hands you love to touch" (Piercy 75). a. The poem denotes cultural symbols. b. Symbols include bound feet an...
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...