YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Essays 211 - 240
In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of the narrator, symbols, images, figures of speech, and tone. Three other sources a...
In eleven pages this research paper provides an explication of this biblical passage in order to attain a more complete verse unde...
LaVerne," is a monologue of cleaning woman, who tells her friend of a strange encounter she had while performing her nightly toile...
prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
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...
the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...
intellect that he exhibits now are a logical fulfillment of his childhood promise. He has grown up to be the man his childhood im...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...
that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...
in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
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...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...
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...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...
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...
a "crowd" and Wordsworth adds that they toss "their heads in a sprightly dance" (line 12). In other words, the poet is pictured as...