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pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...

the aid of Fortune herself as a guide, travel to the Fortunate Islands. There, they scale a mountain, fighting a dragon and a lion...

That tumbled in the Godless deep;"(Tennyson 2630). In order to come to his final conclusion he begins to imagine...

song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...

the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

intoxicated on the sound of the bird, the "light-winged Dryad of the trees" (line 7). Nevertheless, it is clear that his mental s...

be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...

writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...

things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...

whatever virtue she may still retain intact. Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles...

regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...

as literal descriptions of Swifts feelings (Jonathan Swift). However, there is also a note of truth behind these statements that...

is counterfeit and he gets into trouble for using the cash. He gives it away freely and frequently and makes himself appear quite ...

withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight. This quarrel typifies how the Greeks valued personal honor above all other cons...

gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...

womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...

In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...

he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...

stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...

nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...

gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...

the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...

is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...

form the personality of the poet as narrator. As the reader gets to know the narrative voice, it also becomes clear that a pervasi...

next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...

has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...