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'I HAD been hungry all these years' by Emily Dickinson

turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...

'Black Magic' by Dudley Randall

regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...

'Sonnet 54' in Amoretti by Edmund Spenser

that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...

'Circular Ruins' by Jorge Borges

other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Elixir' by George Herbert

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...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

'Bushed' by Earle Birney

reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...

'Dialogue between the Soul and the Body' by Andrew Marvell

the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...

My Last Duchess/Robert Browning

as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...

'My Heart Leaps Up' by William Wordsworth

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 Use of Songs and Games to Teach English as a Second Language

repetitive and consistent (Schoepp, 2001). 2. Affective reasons: this reason involves the Affective Filter Hypothesis and basicall...

China's Song and Qing Dynasties and Gender Roles

overrun by the Mongols. The Song Dynasty was known for its great changes in the economic and social climates of the country becaus...

Ancient Poems and Love Songs of Egypt and China Compared on Love and Sex Attitudes

war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...

Death in Korn's Song 'Alone I Break' and Robert Frost's Poem 'After Apple Picking'

like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...

Medieval Character Model Representation of The Song of Roland

But, we find that this is only a trick. It was such realities as these that often led the Crusades against other nations. Of cours...

Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and the Uses of Syntax and Language

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

Comparing T.S. Eliot and William Shakespeare

accompanied by his son, Ferdinand, the heir to his throne; Antonio, the Duke of Milan; Sebastian, the brother of Alonzo; and Gonza...

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

come through art and through living the life of an artist. In the beginning we do not necessarily see that Thea herself is sure...

William Wordsworth and William Blake's Childhood Themes

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

Carl Jung's Archetypes and Eating Disorders

archetypes can only become conscious secondarily (1981). The archetype is merely an example of a perfect form or prototype (Lohff,...

Analysis of This Old Man Folk Song

cohesion-one must sense a beginning, a middle and an end. In "This Old Man," the melody follows a simple line that makes it easy...

Evaluating Kashmir by Led Zeppelin

as well as the lyrics are of course very important to the analysis. Finally, how has the work fared in the long term? These criter...

Post Second World War Generation and Rock 'N Roll's Impact

by the discussion of sex, and thus make them vulnerable to communist influence(Gordon 2003). The Kinsey sexual research studies ha...

Wallace Stevens' Poem 'The Idea of Order at Key West'

song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...

Comparative Protagonist Analysis in the Works of T.S. Eliot and Alfred Lord Tennyson

thinks himself a hero. When we see the following, that illustrates the position of the narrator in this poem, we begin to see h...

Robert Lowell and Bob Dylan

began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...

William Blake's Images and Words in Illuminated Songs of Innocence and Experience

of the power and impact of Blakes illustrations concerning his inner images and his poetry. As one author notes, "Those who know h...

Exegesis of Psalm 137

as the historical circumstances, which inspired the psalm and whether or not the poem is a song or a prayer (Jackson). The student...

Analysis of 'Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats

intoxicated on the sound of the bird, the "light-winged Dryad of the trees" (line 7). Nevertheless, it is clear that his mental s...

Poetry Structure and the Influences of Culture

futility and anarchy (of) contemporary history": this is not to say that such a structure need be formal and stylised, only that i...