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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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

"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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...

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...

and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...

does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...

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