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he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...

But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...

(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...

as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...

next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...

of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...

said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...

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...

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

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 ...

so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...

viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...

emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...

sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...

to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...

A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...

was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...

seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...

about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...

song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...

the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...

implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...

Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...

the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...

that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...