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Essays 331 - 360
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 ...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...
and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...
"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
believes, would seal his everlasting fame (Irving 86). The poem championed Beowulfs desire for fame as a badge of honor: "In all ...
This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....
after that mentions color; and then, finally, there is this: "Assisted by bells the next character enters" (Durand 83). Durand may...
of them all, the Sumerian Gilgamesh. Its not that Blake copied anyone, but his poem tends to evoke some of the same feelings in a ...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...
the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...
considering they are the only words that are linked/combined with dashes, which clearly emphasizes their metaphorical nature. Rill...
in spite of that, is often hopeful, even joyous. This paper explicates her poem "Million Man March." Discussion The theme of the ...
the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...
mans mortality is Death itself. He walks among the graves and notes that the poorer people have flat markers and the more famous h...
Thames, in the opening lines which state, "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near where the charterd Thames does flow,/ And mar...
include "back-yards graying / with knowledge, embankments blazoned / with pig-face whose hardihood / be theirs, / mantling with pu...
what might be a darker meaning to the poem. The last two lines are repeated ("And miles to go before I sleep") so that the reader...
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...
a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...
to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlords"; it is the y...
in relationship to these voices, fear is likely the reason a person does kill a snake. The narrator watches as the snake drinks a...
They are simply animals doing what they do and creating a balance in the world, another aspect of duality for without opposites th...
a leech, which is the "host" (Heyen 24). "They would grow together, if the snapper lived" (Heyen 25). In this one can well argue t...
this particular poem. In many ways it is a poem that illustrates how far she has come in relationship to her self confidence as on...