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Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
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 ...
a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...
matter? Good-looking, of course, dark hair, rather matted; the reddish beard several shades lighter; with very deep lines round th...
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...
focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...
are happy and playing and skipping and singing, that seems to make sense but is very lilting and nonsensical in many ways. This is...
be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...
Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...
about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...
song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...
the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...
so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...
of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...