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...
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...
the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...
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...
what happens when someone has to push aside their dream. Hughes narrator asks, in relationship to a dream that has been set aside,...
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 ...
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...
monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...
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...
generally oppose organ transplants because they regard taking organs from a person in a permanent coma as murder. In other words, ...
the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...
on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...
until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...
experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...
readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...
industrial training (Washington). He believes that if black men produce something white men want, "instead of all the dependence b...
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...
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 deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...
a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...
scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...
has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...
that probably springs to mind first is a computer. This is only one part, and a very small segment, of the vast human enterprise t...
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...