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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...

yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...

In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...

"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...

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

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...

woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...

their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....

noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...

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

However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...

how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...

a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...

This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....

who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...

unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...