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Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...

experience it for himself. As a teenager I would drive Fathers Chevrolet cross-country, given me...

so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...

vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...

journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...

between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...

world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...

angry or even vengeful, but sedate and sullen. But, there is also the element of natural violence as well in the symbolic presence...

works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...

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

man knows truth. How can this be? It is through the very essence of man, through the essence of the tree and of flowers and of dog...

William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...

pool one day. She thought about their lives and how they felt and realized they were victims of a society and also young me who de...

won your town the race x / x /...

he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...

632). Thus, it is evident that the use of images is advancing the theme of coping with death. Fragile faces indicates those ...

and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and c...

into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...

a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...

spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...

against an actual flower. However, if one will recall, during this time in history in which Frost wrote, the phone had just been i...

boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...

seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...

12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...

and bravery and excitement. They beg for it many times as they beg to be spun like an airplane or hung upside down. They trust the...

ceiling of my house where I could walk around in empty rooms all by myself"(Stanton). Everything in this place would be quie...

is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...

be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...

the euphemism waltz to indicate the routine beatings which occurred. Lastly, in Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, another t...