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Essays 961 - 990
beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...
First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....
how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...
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...
is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...
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...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...
unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...
paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
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...
that this is "Her hardest hue to hold." The budding of plants at this time in the early spring is the shortest part of the seas...
reflects both the poet and the readers changing perspectives that can only be achieved through a rational and nonprejudiced examin...
William Blakes "The Divine Image" have little in common, as the first poem relates a mystical enchantment of a knight with a super...
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...
and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses...
(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...
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...
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...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...