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scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

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...

a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...

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...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...

faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...

ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...

wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

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)...

God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...

stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...

Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...

woman. The narrator states, for example, "If the skies illuminate/ trasluces of paradise,/ islands of color of ed?n,/ it is that i...

until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...

to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...

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....

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...

envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...

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

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

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...