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observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...

more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...

"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...

played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...

remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...

she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...

fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...

is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...

time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...

point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...

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 ...

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

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

Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...

are happy and playing and skipping and singing, that seems to make sense but is very lilting and nonsensical in many ways. This is...

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...