YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Four Poems on Grief
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of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
gaps I mean,/ No one has seen them made or heard them made,/ But at spring mending-time we find them there" (Frost 9-11). In th...
means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...
traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...
ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...
(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...
the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...
a child will enjoy it to some extent, but it is safe to say that this poem was not intended for the young, though it may very well...
know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...
"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...
his own set of biases that he probably brought into the telling of the story, and it can be assumed that he did not have as good a...
the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Af...
sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...
The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...
see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...
loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...
to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...
In five pages the way in which Baudelaire employs the grotesque in these short poems are examined. There are many secondary sourc...
In three pages this essay examines how women are manufactured as described by Marge Piercy in this powerful poem. One source is c...
In a paper consisting of five pages the attitudes of these poets regarding God are discussed in terms of how they are reflected in...
the Portuguese," the title of which is a veiled reference to her husbands pet nickname for her, inspired by her dark coloring whic...
most enthusiastic, and probably the most complete celebration of the myth of nature. The popular conception of Wordsworths att...
In eight pages this paper examines the sonnet structure and poetic devices Sidney employed in this 16th century poem. There are 7...
This 6 page paper analyzes the poem The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold. The writer argues that Arnold uses deliberately confusing m...
by minute; A horse-hoof slides on the brim, And a horse plashes within it; The long-legged moor-hens dive, And hens to moor-cocks ...
An explication of William Butler Yeats' poem 'Leda and the Swan' includes analysis of allusion, situation, character, and tone con...