YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Essays 211 - 240
In six pages an explication of this poem by James Dickey is presented including the poet's title selection. Two sources are cited...
Part forty seven is the focus of this poetic explication consisting of six pages in which symbolism uses by the poet are the prima...
This paper offers an explication of the story in three pages and includes setting, tone, style, characters, summary, narrator, the...
In seven pages a poetic explication of 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell is presented in a line by line analysis. There are...
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...
of art that lives forever and offers youth and vitality and passion. One critic indicates that, "This contrasts the sensual world...
alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...
levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...
between blacks and whites. The mother, in her simple yet compelling tone, does not want to see her son succumb to racially-relate...
the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...
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 ...
reflect an attitude of equality instead of segregation between blacks and whites; however, inasmuch as much as humanity has succes...
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...
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...
to an era gone by as well as to the present time. The poem begins "Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Are sharpening...
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...