YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comparing poems by Atwood and Smith
Essays 901 - 930
paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....
unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...
being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...
how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...
This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....
are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...
First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
night returning, anew began ruthless murder; he recked no whit, / firm in his guilt, of the feud and crime" (II 12-22). When Hrot...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...
which is extremely faulty, shows that she is easily corrupted. Her first instinct on eating of the forbidden fruit is to entice ...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...
educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...
died. The poet feels that the entire world, in fact, should be in mourning as even "public doves" should have "crepe bows" around ...
The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...
denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...
that is the shortest day of the year; we can feel the cold, the deep silence of the woods during a snowfall, the solitude and the ...
of sounds within any language, the speakers in a language community all feel that certain sounds either "the same" or "different" ...
are happy and playing and skipping and singing, that seems to make sense but is very lilting and nonsensical in many ways. This is...
Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...
she is seen as pretty and thus she finds "Consummation at last" (Piercy 6). In this poem we see how it is the ideal media image ...