YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Essays 211 - 240
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...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
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 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...
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...
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...
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...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
action that the people indulged in completely by their own volition, which puts a new slant on the described behavior; and, also c...
inner soul of a woman to be appreciated for the ways in which she makes the lives of her family easier and more pleasant. A native...
formula for success. Eugenes aristocratic name soon opens some doors for him. Madame Beausant is a member of high society and a ...
end up doing the same thing after person A figures out what B is doing. If Person A does not have a dominant strategy, then if B ...
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
May new buds and flowers shall bring; (I)/ Ah! why has happiness--no second Spring? (I)" (Smith 1-14). As we can note, at least...
"temperate" is not exactly a great complement. Therefore, Shakespeare adds to this in the next line stating that "rough" winds can...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
uses is "disturb." the author is clearly shaken by this presence of someone else. This "someone" is likely his sister with whom he...
In five pages 'The Raven' is subjected to a poetic explication and a thesis that Poe's life is reflected in this haunting poem. T...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...
use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...
deal of depth. Sonny is put in jail and one can imagine that growth takes place there. While it seems that this would occur, and t...
In five pages this paper presents a poetic explication of the work by Langston Hughes in a discussion of what exactly 'land of the...
lost prior to being sent from his home (1995). The camera is suddenly outside focusing on smoke rising form the chimney and then ...
elements used by the author. The work begins as follows: BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reapi...
This 9 page paper examines three essays in detail, comparing and contrasting the concepts used. The papers are entitled Robust Sat...