YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Derek Walcotts Poetry
Essays 451 - 480
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...
but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...
strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...
selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...
in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...
Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...
quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...
done about those who suffered, those simple cultural people who were victims of the civilized world (Castillo 40-45). This...
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...
soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...
action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...
kingdom of heaven is similar to a field in which a man has sown good seed. The "good seed" are righteous people who will come to b...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...
ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...
his force" (Behn 13-14). In her case she is a virgin who has finally, it seems, given in to the man Lisander, and is ready to give...
first case, the uniform will become old and tattered; if its the second meaning, then Shakespeare is commenting on the fact that a...
on the world (Vazsonyi 14). Browsing through Lukacss writing, it is clear that Novalis highly influenced his worldview and manner ...
Death, /Into the mouth of Hell / Rode the six hundred" (Tennyson, 1870). Still another type of poem shows death as sheer horror: ...
Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
located in West Seattle; his patients are mostly urban and poor ("Peter Pereira"). On the literary front, he has been published...
that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...
Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...
indication of just how racial intolerance has guided history. Wrights (1987) "popular and perennial African-American characters" ...