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Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...

prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...

the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey" (Angelou). In essence, we see Margaret excited and bearing no feelin...

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...

Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...

questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...

the Irish countryside. Thoor Ballylee was Yeats famous summer home, and Coole Park refers to the nearby estate of Yeats life-long ...

poet of nature. For example, "The instinct of Wordsworth was to interpret all the operations of nature by those of his own strenuo...

a higher understanding of what life could be. In better understanding some of these obvious themes we analyze the poem through ...

afflicted with serious health issues, such as Graves disease and a thyroid disorder among others, and these caused her to become a...

Warren in his famous essay on "Mariner" stated the primary theme is that humanity needs to, somehow, live in harmony with Nature, ...

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...

romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...

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...

certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...

to have stood, though free to fall" (Milton Book III). In this we see that Adam had the freedom to make a choice, and in that free...

strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...

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...

William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...

pool one day. She thought about their lives and how they felt and realized they were victims of a society and also young me who de...

won your town the race x / x /...

angry or even vengeful, but sedate and sullen. But, there is also the element of natural violence as well in the symbolic presence...

works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...

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...

be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...

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...