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merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...

old and his first book at age 13 (Yarborough). In short, he was a prodigy who might have been destined for greater things, had he ...

a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...

seventeenth century in his impressive text of nearly 800 pages entitled, Religion and the Decline of Magic. Thomas demonstrated h...

not procreate indiscriminately but should rather follow Natures example and wait until circumstances are optimal in order to add t...

sort of image of things that awe us. Even in these two simple words we are presented with a magical picture of a time of harvest, ...

turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...

is presumably a nurse, and the nurse arrives at an individuals house at five in the morning: "At five in the morning/ I knock on h...

and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...

title, the fact that he notes how the sea is history immediately makes the reader wonder. They may wonder about how the ocean is r...

also says that the flea is swollen with their blood (there is a strong suggestion here of the way male and female genitalia swell ...

he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...

when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...

in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...

Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...

was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...

confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...

does not have a job people envision him as a beggar. But, at the same time there is an understanding that he is doing a Holy mans ...

However, the meaning is obscure and the student will have to pursue the tranlsation with more sophisticated tools than are availab...

of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...

but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...

other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...

accompanying poem begins, "Juans ax aches/His tracks lead backwards." The alliteration, assonance and consonance of his word choic...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti are quite different from one another. Ginsbergs long and sprawling lines certainly look nothing like Snyders...

her, reluctantly, to maintain these values. This argument is grounded in 17th century ideals of chivalry and courtly honor, ideals...

another boy who is bald and who cries. This boy has a dream which is very innocent and very uplifting for the boy for in that drea...

the placement of the poem, offers the reader a sense of innocence and childhood as well as purity. The poem begins with...

misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...

Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...

reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...