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who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...

a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...

This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....

how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...

and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...

paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....

unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...

being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...

This 3 page paper discusses three of Wordsworth's poems, "The World is too Much with Us," "Composed on Westminster Bridge," and "I...

the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

says Sandburg, none of that matters; what matters is that the grass will eventually cover up the battlefields, the dead, the blood...

powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...

my brain. Never show fear (Free verse) Animals and small children know when youre afraid. They growl and bite, or cry and fight ...

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...

First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...

are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...

said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...

next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...

of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...

a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...

gloves" (Auden 8). Tone As one critic states, "The tone of a poem is roughly equivalent to the mood it creates in the reader" ...

the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...

part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...

Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...

also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...

implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...

A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...