YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 391 - 420
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Of Pruning and Production" by Isabella Southern. The poem's themes are gradually s...
In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...
of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...
This essay pertains to a Wilfred Owen's WWI poem that offers stark and vivid repudiation of the Latin phrase that it is sweet to ...
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...
This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...
This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...
more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...
or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...
mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...
was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...
in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...
optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...
the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...
lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...
kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...
poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...
cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...
break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...
the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...
narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...
the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...
and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...