YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Essays 271 - 300
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...
intellect that he exhibits now are a logical fulfillment of his childhood promise. He has grown up to be the man his childhood im...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...
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...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
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...
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...
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...
trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...
on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...
actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...
un-natural cause is this new concept of God (Nietzsche). This God is a "God who demands - in place of a God who helps, who devises...
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...
as being different sides of the authors true character and argues that in "literature as in life, we must choose" (Brans 437). T...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
is an odd remark. She picks up on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eli...
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 ...
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...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...