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"Mending Wall" we have a very powerful look at what self reliance can do to an individual. It presents us with a picture of what s...

alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...

this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...

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

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...

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

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

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

hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...

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...

understand our world and as we seek to communicate with that world. As the poem progresses we surely see elements that speak of...

that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...

enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...

An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...

sooner will his race be run, / And nearer hes to setting" (lines 7-8). In this manner, Herrick sets up an ever-increasing sense of...

talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...

renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...

serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...

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

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 ...

be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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