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clue which would support this idea might be the first few lines where she discusses returning to a previously held thought, idea, ...

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...

from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...

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

have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...

as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....

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

poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...

of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...

terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...

of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...

the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...

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...

shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the two parts of the poem by Parmenides, 'The Way of Truth' and 'The Way of Mortal Opinions'...

about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...

as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...

occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...

and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...

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

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

that is illustrating the power that was possessed by these women, but not the power that the men and women of the time thought the...

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...