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this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...

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...

journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...

Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...

the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey" (Angelou). In essence, we see Margaret excited and bearing no feelin...

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...

experience it for himself. As a teenager I would drive Fathers Chevrolet cross-country, given me...

from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...

as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...

I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...

the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...

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

poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...

of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...

a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...