YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Essays 211 - 240
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...
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...
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...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
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...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
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...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
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...
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
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...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
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...
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 ...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
This 9 page paper examines three essays in detail, comparing and contrasting the concepts used. The papers are entitled Robust Sat...