YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 121 - 150
This essay analyzes the meaning of Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B." Three pages n length, two sources are cited. ...
This essay pertains to Wilfred Owen's poem, which captures the horror of World War I. Five pages in length, seven sources are cite...
"the poem asserts that the only resolution in the modern world is irresolution. Hence, The Triumph of Life becomes a latter-day at...
in her eyes./ Maybe/ I will never be able to forget that and become someone different and better to my child. Connotation One ...
1-2). Kiplings expertise with rhythm and word choice within the framework of the poems structure also constitute a feature that ...
people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...
his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...
that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...
could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...
imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...
girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...
The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...
must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...
a thumbnail description of the rise of modern science beginning in the sixteenth century. This discussion offers insight into this...
"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
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...
nature for us to section off into different groups. We might have a slight rise in the rise of middle-class and upper-middle class...
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...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
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 ...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
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 ...
regard to how that behavior impacted their child. Under the third hypothesis, the interdependent model hypothesis, parental perso...