YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Poems and Reflection
Essays 781 - 810
a mystical quality that makes us think about what shes saying. Shes packed a lot of thought into a very few lines. The poem is par...
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...
In sage debates...To save the state" (Homer Book I). The reader begins to see that Telemachus is not wise enough to be prepared fo...
stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
(Corey and Corey 180). For heterosexuals and homosexuals alike, "Love is elusive... a goal we rarely achieve and, when we do, fin...
for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
director, "having created us alive, then no longer wished, or was he able, to put us materially into a work of art. And this, sir,...
has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...
soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...
her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...
and real images, illustrating his understanding of how poetics could work, how placement of words, creating imagery and also a str...
than they did many years ago, that people who appear happy and content are not always happy and content. Being wealthy and handsom...
a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...
As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...
without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...
as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...
In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...
in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...
his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
itself and thus establish its own limits" (261). This, necessarily, involves the collapse of boundaries, which can be "sexual, nat...
oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...
keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...