YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comparing poems by Atwood and Smith
Essays 811 - 840
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...
played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...
she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...
fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...
one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth; / Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the bett...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...
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...
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
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) ...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...
and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...
and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...
their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...