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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...

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

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

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

against an actual flower. However, if one will recall, during this time in history in which Frost wrote, the phone had just been i...

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...

This paper offers a summary, analysis and background information on Rafeef Ziadah's poem "Shades of Anger," which expresses the po...

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the poem “To his Excellency General Washington”, by Phillis Wheatley. This paper includes h...

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...

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...

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...

optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...

so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...

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 ...

a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...

haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Of Pruning and Production" by Isabella Southern. The poem's themes are gradually s...

How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...

Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...

of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...

of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...

In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...