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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...

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

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

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

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...

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

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

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 ...

The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...

has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...

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

Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...

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

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...

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...

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...

is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...

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...

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...

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

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 ...