YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Poems and Reflection
Essays 841 - 870
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...
trees will give no shelter and the crickets, no relief" (Wasteland by TS Eliot). When looking at this particular reference one c...
about being killed in war, or losing a friend in the war, but also how one can lose themselves to such a degree that death is the ...
Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...
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...
A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...
91). The first threatening wave of homelessness swept America between the years 1820 and 1860, when more than five million immigr...
woman. The narrator states, for example, "If the skies illuminate/ trasluces of paradise,/ islands of color of ed?n,/ it is that i...
Academy (Richardson). Blakes first published volume of written work was "Poetical Sketches," which appeared in 1783 (Richardson)....
and how they are seen by Wheatley as almost heavenly. She is clearly amazed at the figures and the power within these figures. Thi...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
middle of a raid and rather than go through the trouble of proving he is an American chooses to run, and in this "jogging" event h...
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...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
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 ...
(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 ...
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)...
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...
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,...
stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...
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...
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...
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...