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I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...

as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...

from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...

terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...

and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...

that is illustrating the power that was possessed by these women, but not the power that the men and women of the time thought the...

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...

Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...

in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the two parts of the poem by Parmenides, 'The Way of Truth' and 'The Way of Mortal Opinions'...

the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...

about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...

in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...

occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...

lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...

ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...

than they preserve" (Killam and Rowe). The poem "Homecoming" which is among his collection which show the corruptive greed ...

we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...