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Yeats’ The Second Coming

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...

Wordsworth’s Nutting

his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...

The Second Coming by Yeats

that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...

Out, Out by Robert Frost

has to be cut for the stove" (Wiles). When someone dies it does not mean they were not loved, and they are not missed, just becaus...

Richard Cory

people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...

Shelley’s Ozymandias

the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...

Carl Sandburg’s Chicago

the later part of the 19th century, who witnessed much of Chicagos history. He saw it in the early days of the 20th century when w...

Whitman: "Song of Myself"

except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...

'Answering the Unanswerable' by Nancy Willard Analyzed

It does not love flesh. It leaves a ring of cold in the wound." On the surface of this particular stanza,...

Langston Hughes’ Theme for English B

that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...

Beowulf

(VII). In this he is telling Beowulf that he had many apparently noble men claiming they would get rid of the beast but they drank...

Robert Frost: “Mending Wall”

But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...

A New England Tradition: Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”

they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...

Piercy: “The Secretary Chant”

a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...

The Dinner Party by Amy Lowell

11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...

Comparative Analysis of 'Lamia' by John Keats and 'Triumph of Life' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

"the poem asserts that the only resolution in the modern world is irresolution. Hence, The Triumph of Life becomes a latter-day at...

Analysis of 4 poems by Robert Frost

imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...

"If" by Rudyard Kipling

1-2). Kiplings expertise with rhythm and word choice within the framework of the poems structure also constitute a feature that ...

Martin Espada: Heart of Hunger and Imagine the Angels of Bread

could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...

Analysis of 2 Poems Written by Women

read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...

An Analysis of I Started Early Took My Dog

present us with the sheer power of the sea. Now, as mentioned, these lines, filled with imagery, can be seen from many symbolic ...

Poetic Works of Emily Dickinson

In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....

Heroic Greek Definition in 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer

In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....

Death in Jorge Manrique's 'Coplas'

different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...

Pablo Neruda: Walking Around

being a man./ And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie/ houses/ dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt/ steer...

Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”

often simply a reality that was accepted as part of life. It did not necessarily make people angry or bitter or resentful in a con...

Symbolism in 'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats

of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...

A Review of the Poem As Watchers Hang Upon the East

A 4 page review and explanation of the poem by Emily Dickinson. 3 sources....

Walcott's A Far Cry from Africa

this there are opposites that indicate the narrator is confused and lost and in something of a frenzy to find some balance, and id...

Analyzing the 1863 Poem 'My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson

In five pages the symbolism of master and slave is applied to the destructive marital relationship described in the poem....