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Essays 241 - 270
himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...
question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...
on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...
questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...
of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...
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 ...
devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...
evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...
of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...
her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...