YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Matthew Arnolds Poetry
Essays 541 - 570
see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...
born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...
loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...
argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...
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 ...
a wondrous season. In this poem Keats also brings sounds into play in a very powerful manner that speaks to us of nature and of...
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
an exploration of what it means to be an American. "A mountain-born, country-bred,homegrown jibara child,up from the shtetl, a Ca...
another meaning. Graham is a poet that inhabits tensions. Most of her work pushes at somehow trying to reconcile the inconsistenc...
we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...
The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...
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 ...
but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...
strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...
selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...
ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...
This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontent, as well as the influence t...
1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...
his force" (Behn 13-14). In her case she is a virgin who has finally, it seems, given in to the man Lisander, and is ready to give...
first case, the uniform will become old and tattered; if its the second meaning, then Shakespeare is commenting on the fact that a...
on the world (Vazsonyi 14). Browsing through Lukacss writing, it is clear that Novalis highly influenced his worldview and manner ...
Death, /Into the mouth of Hell / Rode the six hundred" (Tennyson, 1870). Still another type of poem shows death as sheer horror: ...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
located in West Seattle; his patients are mostly urban and poor ("Peter Pereira"). On the literary front, he has been published...
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
for its wealth of atmospheric detail and rich symbolism. This makes them attractive to literary critics because there is a great d...