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understand our world and as we seek to communicate with that world. As the poem progresses we surely see elements that speak of...

that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...

enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...

he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...

But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...

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...

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

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...

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 ...