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Richard Wilbur's Poem 'Love Calls Us to the Things of This World'

the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...

Maya Angelou's Poem 'Woman Work'

is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...

Epic Poem 'Beowulf' and Elements of Style

that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...

The 'Sir Patrick Spence Poem

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

Emily Dickinson's Poem, 'My Life Had Stood-A Loaded Gun'

the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...

Wallace Stevens' Poem 'The Idea of Order at Key West'

song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...

Raymond Carver's Poems

to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...

Friendship in Three Poems by Sappho

was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...

Beauty and Friendship in 3 of Sappho's Poems

seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...

Analyzing Three Poems About War

about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...

Medieval Poem 'I Sing of a Maiden'

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

Comparative Analysis of Mood and Themes in Poems by Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot

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

4 Poems in Billy Collins' Nine Horses

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 ...

Analysis of the Anglo Saxon Poem 'The Wanderer'

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

Comparative Analysis of Poems by Gary Snyder and Robert Creeley

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

An Examination of Four Love Poems

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

Analysis of T.S. Eliot's Poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'

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

'The Road Not Taken' Poem by Robert Frost and a Line Analysis

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 ...

'The Starry Night' Poem by Anne Sexton and the Starry Night Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

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

Suzanne Vega's Poem 'Playing'

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

Underlying Themes of Various Poems

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

Four Poems by Sesshu Foster

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

An Analysis of The Epic Poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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

Religious Themes in the Butterfly Shaped Poem 'Easter Wings' by George Herbert

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

Analysis of Robert Frost's Poem 'Design'

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

Emily Dickinson's Poem, 'Because I Could Not Stop for 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...

Mary Robinson's Feminist Poem 'The Lamentation of Marie Antoinette'

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

Ancient Poems and Love Songs of Egypt and China Compared on Love and Sex Attitudes

war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...

Alice Cary's 'The West Country' Poem

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

Comparative Analysis of the Poems 'My Last Duchess' and 'Portrait of a Lady'

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