YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Essays 271 - 300
alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...
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...
of art that lives forever and offers youth and vitality and passion. One critic indicates that, "This contrasts the sensual world...
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...
action that the people indulged in completely by their own volition, which puts a new slant on the described behavior; and, also c...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
few shots of a good looking, blue-eyed young man. There is the glare of the sunlight which is rather obvious. One shot shows this ...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
done if they are to change their existence. She wonders if its possible for women to ever be truly happy. She wonders if existence...
"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...
5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...
latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...
misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...
mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
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...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...
the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...
value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
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...
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...
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...