YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Death in the Poems of John Donne
Essays 631 - 660
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...
being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...
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...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....
how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
of a child. 1. "I a child and thou a lamb" (Blake 670). B. Dickinsons narrator is a dying woman. 1. "The Eyes around-had wrung the...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
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...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
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...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
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...
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 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...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...
their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...