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her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...

of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...

devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...

be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...

the viewer. The next stanzas, however, bring the reader and the viewer, a more sobering message. In comparison to the characters ...

is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...

certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...

to have stood, though free to fall" (Milton Book III). In this we see that Adam had the freedom to make a choice, and in that free...

and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and c...

into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...

ceiling of my house where I could walk around in empty rooms all by myself"(Stanton). Everything in this place would be quie...

seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...

12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...

632). Thus, it is evident that the use of images is advancing the theme of coping with death. Fragile faces indicates those ...

and bravery and excitement. They beg for it many times as they beg to be spun like an airplane or hung upside down. They trust the...

against an actual flower. However, if one will recall, during this time in history in which Frost wrote, the phone had just been i...

boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...

a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...

(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

his own set of biases that he probably brought into the telling of the story, and it can be assumed that he did not have as good a...

sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...

see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...

to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...

When someone mentions "the road not taken" or "the road less traveled" it is often without any realization of Frosts famous poem, ...

means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...