YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comparing poems by Atwood and Smith
Essays 331 - 360
a higher understanding of what life could be. In better understanding some of these obvious themes we analyze the poem through ...
it was / That brought him to that creaking room was age. / He stood with barrels round him -- at a loss. / And having scared the c...
the stern discipline of an active career" and these characteristics "had taken over the office of modeling these features. Behind ...
began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...
(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
survive, the most poignant works were his love sonnets. Surrey was considered to be quite the ladies man, even though he was marr...
like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...
and soul) are in a fight for their own survival and right to exist, and that the simple things in life, those things that really c...
hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...
relating it to their own life experiences through the powers of imagination (Minahan 38). Two works that characterize the creativ...
is stating the most depressing facts that seem obvious to them. However, as the poem ends we see an understanding of the gentle an...
what her life has been. This view of Granny life offers a contradiction to every misogynist preconception of womanhood that was ev...
described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...
the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...
as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...
journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...
he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...
the euphemism waltz to indicate the routine beatings which occurred. Lastly, in Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, another t...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...
faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...
of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...
the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...
lays dead. No individual has truly come to help him save for one youth, Wiglaf. In these particular lines we note the following: "...