YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of the Poem The Eternal Dice
Essays 301 - 330
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 ...
stresses and also spondaic emphasis on the phrase "this years snow." Still other lines mix and match rhythm patterns so that the o...
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...
of art that lives forever and offers youth and vitality and passion. One critic indicates that, "This contrasts the sensual world...
the kingdom of Bohemia from the Catholic Holy Roman emperor have now been discredited" ("Rosicrucian"). Nevertheless, Frost obviou...
called a "beast," when she all along she thought she was a woman. This humorous beginning not only shows two diametrically opposed...
latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...
the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...
done if they are to change their existence. She wonders if its possible for women to ever be truly happy. She wonders if existence...
"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...
hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...
few lines further on: "he...ventured on foot, attired in his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into the m...
in the literature, making it difficult for research to validate the pedagogy" (Barrett). It is her basic purpose in writing this p...
tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...
is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...
Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...
intellect that he exhibits now are a logical fulfillment of his childhood promise. He has grown up to be the man his childhood im...
a "crowd" and Wordsworth adds that they toss "their heads in a sprightly dance" (line 12). In other words, the poet is pictured as...
why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...
at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
Many disagreed on issues of conversion, or how one becomes a practioner of the Jewish faith. For example, the Orthodox believers p...
so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...
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...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...
gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...