YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Poems Hughes and Eliot
Essays 181 - 210
must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...
the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...
sore" (line 4)? The structure of the poem asks a series of questions that, in themselves, suggest the answers, which are all found...
beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...
what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...
and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...
monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
what happens when someone has to push aside their dream. Hughes narrator asks, in relationship to a dream that has been set aside,...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...
regrouping of the movement nine years later, in 1909, when it emerged as a much bigger and much more powerful movement known as th...
To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...
in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...
was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...
mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...
golden tones he creates" (Davis 276). This "new Harlem" apparently changes more dramatically than we think; Schatt notes that the ...
more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...
the best basketball players at Fisk sank his first ball right here at Lafayette County Training School" (Angelou 870). Angelou is ...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...
kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...
the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...
and white, life and death, happiness and sadness, rich (white majority) and poor (black minority) to express social injustice and ...
optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...
cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...
poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...
OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...