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is an odd remark. She picks up on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eli...

misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...

reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...

levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...

use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

poem continues and discusses how life was once perhaps simple for these soldiers, but all innocence is past: "Their flowers the te...

the trees brings back an plethora of memories for the poet, images of himself as a "swinger of birches," when life was not so comp...

renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...

In six pages an explication of this poem by James Dickey is presented including the poet's title selection. Two sources are cited...

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...

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...

and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...

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...

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...

hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...

say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...

In five pages a poetic explication of Dante's poem is presented in terms of explanation of betrayal as a more punishable sin than ...

In six pages this explication of Spenser's poem argues that it serves as a celebration of Queen and country in terms of 'virtue' a...

reader may have been a bit confused at prior lines that spoke of abstract thought and image, much of that could easily be contribu...

been requisite in order to create the gentle, trusting lamb. The narrator never states that the Tyger is evil, but he indic...

In three pages this paper presents a thematic explication of this William Blake poem as it portrays lacking worth, faith, and inno...

has watched as a young girl has matured and ultimately been replaced with an old woman, which the mirror looks upon as the passing...

This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...

In six pages this paper examines how the growing up experience is presented in an explication of Gwendolyn Brooks' poems 'The Ball...

This 6 page paper is a detailed explication of Thomas Hardy's poem, The Darkling Thrush. The writer argues that Hardy is using na...

would be needed if the creature were simply to be taken as male), is female--as the focus on the "slow thighs" suggests--as well a...