YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comparing Blake Dickinson Poems
Essays 781 - 810
night returning, anew began ruthless murder; he recked no whit, / firm in his guilt, of the feud and crime" (II 12-22). When Hrot...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
which is extremely faulty, shows that she is easily corrupted. Her first instinct on eating of the forbidden fruit is to entice ...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...
gloves" (Auden 8). Tone As one critic states, "The tone of a poem is roughly equivalent to the mood it creates in the reader" ...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
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) ...
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...