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or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...

mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...

more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...

to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...

God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...

Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...

until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...

evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...

line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...

envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...

of life in our worldly form, of the power of the many mystical forces of our universe, and the concepts of reincarnation and life ...

from these early stanzas that Lizzie is somewhat stronger - she is aware of the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit. It is ...

lays dead. No individual has truly come to help him save for one youth, Wiglaf. In these particular lines we note the following: "...

the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...

smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...

a feast of rejoicing, as well as to keep himself clean and well groomed; he is to cherish his children and his wife (Radcliffe PG)...

propelling them forward, as does the rhyme and the rhythm. The steady short-long cadence of the rhythm is, in this context, like a...

of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...