YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Poetic Comparative Analysis of Whittier and Emerson
Essays 1291 - 1320
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
make him a man, he must forego running in the fields and playing in the meadows. "How can the bird that is born for joy/Sit in a c...
a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand For many poets the overall purpose of the poem has...
shalt die"(Donne 812). In this poem, then, the literary devices used include personification, sonnet form, and irony. Irony is mo...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....
womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...
gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...
In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...
withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight. This quarrel typifies how the Greeks valued personal honor above all other cons...
gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...
into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition of a scene. We can all but envision t...
ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...
form the personality of the poet as narrator. As the reader gets to know the narrative voice, it also becomes clear that a pervasi...
the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
more fidelity than did her missing husband. However, while Penelope is keeping Odysseus home fires burning, it is Athena to whom ...
Early on in the history of odes the expected delivery was through song. Chorus would sing different categoric divisions of the re...
original, so much so, that he invented his own rhyming scheme, hence this sonnet is typical of the "Spencerian" form. It is one of...
In five pages this paper examines such events as the Dane's nation rise, attack of Heorot, hero's arrival in Heorot, Heorot feast,...
as if women were alien creatures, and not like men at all. In addition to looking at this the Lady of Shallot in particular, a st...