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and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...

$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...

and to help win over his coy mistress" (Reiff, 2002, p. 196). The first person pronouns "vary between the singular, which emphasiz...

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

the layers will not reveal any great secrets. And that appears to be breaking the examiners heart. The reader should keep in mind...

As these examples illustrate, there are instances where there are definite Christian allusions in the text. Furthermore, at the be...

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...

who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...

has what might be considered a god-like perspective. That puts him in a place where he can not only look at the city, but judge it...

latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...

the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...

While there is a sense of pride, it is not an arrogant pride or a pride that is only involved in self for Beowulf is proud of bein...

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...

I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...

poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...

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...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...

women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...