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The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

Latino, classical and contemporary" (Bixby, 2000). His later work reveal a man "who has learned his craft from the European tradit...

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...

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

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

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

Frost as Terrifying In first examining how and why Frost is considered terrifying we must first understand that Trilling did not...

that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

were very interesting, people probably would not like them because they were different. As such Emily decided at that point that s...

is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....

shalt die"(Donne 812). In this poem, then, the literary devices used include personification, sonnet form, and irony. Irony is mo...

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

is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...

effect that the petticoat has on the male observer in the garment itself, which the poet asserts "Sometimes twould pant, and sigh,...

a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...

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

involving gender or related themes like romance and marriage. Yet, sex and love are highlights in the Inferno. Dante also writes o...

part. He and the Church had a love/hate relationship, to be certain. "Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy," st...

a steadily-promoted deck officer on the Titanic" (Lancashire et al. "Philosophy"). This balanced perspective (positive and negativ...

those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...

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

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

five senses; "whatever the truth may be" (Ballis). In the "Proverbs from Hell", the Devil speaks wise statements in regards to t...

Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...