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"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...

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

gaps I mean,/ No one has seen them made or heard them made,/ But at spring mending-time we find them there" (Frost 9-11). In th...

means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...

old and his first book at age 13 (Yarborough). In short, he was a prodigy who might have been destined for greater things, had he ...

a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...

one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance ...

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

exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...

Hobson would never die as long as he was on the move. Until his revolution was at stay, in the sense of a ball which has stopped s...

of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...

a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...

seventeenth century in his impressive text of nearly 800 pages entitled, Religion and the Decline of Magic. Thomas demonstrated h...

not procreate indiscriminately but should rather follow Natures example and wait until circumstances are optimal in order to add t...

sort of image of things that awe us. Even in these two simple words we are presented with a magical picture of a time of harvest, ...

turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...

is presumably a nurse, and the nurse arrives at an individuals house at five in the morning: "At five in the morning/ I knock on h...

Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

the hierarchy, to base matter, at its lowest level, with man and the natural world between the two, and Donnes commentary reflects...

see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...

poem. The rhyming pattern is alternately free form and occasional standard abab. It follows the pattern of iambic pentameter of ...

of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...

is T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Through the adroit use of metaphor Eliot invites the reader to undertake a jo...

writes of black experience: Once when I walked into a room My eyes would see out the one or two black faces For contact or reass...

San Fransico but he would grow up primarily in Massachusetts where he, his siblings, and his mother would move to after the death ...

indeed, cannot, be overlooked. A rare taste of boundless joy is exemplified in Wild nights, wild nights. Perhaps written o...

since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

(Walcotts brother Roderick is a playwright). While young Derek was growing up and dipping into these books time and again, he foun...