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emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...

of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...

viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...

The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...

so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...

sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...

has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...

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 ...

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 ...

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...

and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...

"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...

the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...

woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...

their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...

blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...

holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....

the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...

noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...

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 ...

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...

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...