YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of the Poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Essays 541 - 570
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...
he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...
She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
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...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
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...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
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...
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...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...