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Essays 301 - 330
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....
a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...
to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...
(Brooks 9-15). The narrator is illustrating how the reader, or listener, who is likely Black would not have believed them had they...
reached/ was you" (Brooks 2-8). In this the reader is subtly illustrating how society, white American society perhaps, has control...
also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...
of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...
how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...
has planted a bomb. He sees a woman in a yellow jacket go in, then a man in dark glasses comes out; then two men in jeans talk for...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...
time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bly and Djanikian all wrote famous poems dealing with snow. This analysis looks at Snowflakes by Longf...
future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...
uses is "disturb." the author is clearly shaken by this presence of someone else. This "someone" is likely his sister with whom he...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth; / Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the bett...