YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comparative Analysis of Four Poems by William Butler Yeats
Essays 361 - 390
This essay discusses Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," and Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays." Both poems pertain to...
a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...
11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...
But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...
they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...
the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...
that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...
(VII). In this he is telling Beowulf that he had many apparently noble men claiming they would get rid of the beast but they drank...
being a man./ And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie/ houses/ dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt/ steer...
often simply a reality that was accepted as part of life. It did not necessarily make people angry or bitter or resentful in a con...
different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...
is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...
In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of primary themes as well as its social and religious connotations....
In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....
In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....
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...
in her eyes./ Maybe/ I will never be able to forget that and become someone different and better to my child. Connotation One ...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...
girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...
could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...
her, reluctantly, to maintain these values. This argument is grounded in 17th century ideals of chivalry and courtly honor, ideals...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...
Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...
people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...