YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Four Poems Summary and Analysis
Essays 751 - 780
topic, one might look at the situation from the perspective of a hypothetical scenario. Suppose that one had just been promoted fr...
shared her names (Cisneros, 1987). This places a poetic emphasis on the lack of personal efficacious power women experienced in th...
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
the viewer. The next stanzas, however, bring the reader and the viewer, a more sobering message. In comparison to the characters ...
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
pool one day. She thought about their lives and how they felt and realized they were victims of a society and also young me who de...
suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...
William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...
angry or even vengeful, but sedate and sullen. But, there is also the element of natural violence as well in the symbolic presence...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
experience it for himself. As a teenager I would drive Fathers Chevrolet cross-country, given me...
from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses the two parts of the poem by Parmenides, 'The Way of Truth' and 'The Way of Mortal Opinions'...
role of the bees in Marvells poem "fits in with human experience, the reader most likely being familiar with the sharp pain of a b...
in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
of Oisin is one of the most beautiful epics ever written. It is particularly rich in imagery, as Yates paints a word picture of 30...
in insular imaginary games the whole way. The narrator suggests that the two of them stop rebuilding the wall and question for onc...
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...
of children and their behavior, their fears and victories. This paper compares and contrasts two of her poems, "The One Girl at th...
Thames, in the opening lines which state, "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near where the charterd Thames does flow,/ And mar...
Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...
ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places...
about being killed in war, or losing a friend in the war, but also how one can lose themselves to such a degree that death is the ...