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(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...

to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...

When someone mentions "the road not taken" or "the road less traveled" it is often without any realization of Frosts famous poem, ...

his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...

Hobson would never die as long as he was on the move. Until his revolution was at stay, in the sense of a ball which has stopped s...

a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...

one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance ...

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 ...

interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...

the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...

a child will enjoy it to some extent, but it is safe to say that this poem was not intended for the young, though it may very well...

"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...

know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...

of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...

gaps I mean,/ No one has seen them made or heard them made,/ But at spring mending-time we find them there" (Frost 9-11). In th...

means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...

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 ...

exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...

of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...

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...

Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...