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readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...

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

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...

line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...

In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...

God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...

Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...

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

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

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...

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

intellect that he exhibits now are a logical fulfillment of his childhood promise. He has grown up to be the man his childhood im...

a "crowd" and Wordsworth adds that they toss "their heads in a sprightly dance" (line 12). In other words, the poet is pictured as...

is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...

Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...

at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...

why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...

nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...

into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...

gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...

womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...