YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Essays 271 - 300
reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...
in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...
that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...
other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...
womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...
In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...
gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...
turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Explications of quotes are used to give insights into themes. P...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Arendt and Foucault. An explication is made which reconciles their basic philosophie...
This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...
the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...
misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...
value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
than they preserve" (Killam and Rowe). The poem "Homecoming" which is among his collection which show the corruptive greed ...
hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...
This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
Many disagreed on issues of conversion, or how one becomes a practioner of the Jewish faith. For example, the Orthodox believers p...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...