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and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...

and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...

another meaning. Graham is a poet that inhabits tensions. Most of her work pushes at somehow trying to reconcile the inconsistenc...

an exploration of what it means to be an American. "A mountain-born, country-bred,homegrown jibara child,up from the shtetl, a Ca...

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

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...

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...

strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...

the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...

gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...

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...

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)...

unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...

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...

that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...