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of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...

so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...

vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...

between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...

world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...

and real images, illustrating his understanding of how poetics could work, how placement of words, creating imagery and also a str...

curlers, the hands you love to touch" (Piercy 75). a. The poem denotes cultural symbols. b. Symbols include bound feet an...

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...

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...

he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...

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

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

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

oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...

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

is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...

poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...

cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...

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)...

the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...

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...

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

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

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

argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...

and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...

sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...

of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...