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Shakespeare/Sonnet 73

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Comparison/Contrast

the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...

Explication: "Scenes from the Playroom"

latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...

Beowulf

While there is a sense of pride, it is not an arrogant pride or a pride that is only involved in self for Beowulf is proud of bein...

The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds

suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...

Emily Dickinson's 'The Soul Selects Hew Own Society' and Imagery

keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...

Andrew Marvell's 'The Garden'

man knows truth. How can this be? It is through the very essence of man, through the essence of the tree and of flowers and of dog...

'Against Love' by Katherine Philips, 'The Sick Rose' by William Blake and the Theme of Love

William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...

Gwendolyn Brooks' 'We Real Cool'

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...

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

A.E. Houseman: To An Athlete Dying Young

won your town the race x / x /...

'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and the Importance of Obedience and Freedom

to have stood, though free to fall" (Milton Book III). In this we see that Adam had the freedom to make a choice, and in that free...

Hayden, Roethke, and Silverstein Compared

the euphemism waltz to indicate the routine beatings which occurred. Lastly, in Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, another t...

Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' Theoretically Studied

spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...

'My Papa's Waltz' by Theodore Roethke and Child Abuse

and bravery and excitement. They beg for it many times as they beg to be spun like an airplane or hung upside down. They trust the...

'Childhood' by Maura Stanton

ceiling of my house where I could walk around in empty rooms all by myself"(Stanton). Everything in this place would be quie...

Jane Kenyon's 'Depression in Winter'

seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...

Death of Abraham Lincoln and the Grief of Poet Walt Whitman

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 ...

Dissonance in AJM Smith's 'The Lonely Land'

certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...

John Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

the viewer. The next stanzas, however, bring the reader and the viewer, a more sobering message. In comparison to the characters ...

Prufrock's Character in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...

Poetic Analysis of Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...

'Before I Knocked' by Dylan Thomas

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

Crucible of Character by Etheridge

who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...

The Sea Is History by Derek Walcott

title, the fact that he notes how the sea is history immediately makes the reader wonder. They may wonder about how the ocean is r...

Eavan Boland/Fever

5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...

Supplication in "The Iliad"

its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...

Browning and Spera

various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...

Gwendolyn Brooks/Old Black Woman, Homeless & Indistinct

as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...

Thom Gunn: "A Map of the City"

has what might be considered a god-like perspective. That puts him in a place where he can not only look at the city, but judge it...