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from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...

as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...

5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...

its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...

various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...

as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...

men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...

of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...

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...

of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...

a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...

Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...

in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...

in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...

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...

terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...

and trash everywhere (Ainsworth). To her right is her grandson, dressed in blue short and a white t-shirt; he appears to be about ...

readers, the reference will be obvious, but for young people for whom the Second World War and its atrocities seem unreal, it may ...

to understand his culture and find his place in it; its not surprising that his poems speak to his experience and his characters f...

a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...

overwhelming, because they come with options: we can choose to see "300" now because Gerry Butlers incredibly hot, but we also kno...

Form This particular poem has a very clear pattern of rhyme. It is considered to a type of poem that possesses a...

the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...

When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...

loss of an individual, perhaps most commonly the death of an individual. But, with the English tradition of the elegy there is als...