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Explication of 'London' by Poet William Blake

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

Analysis of the Anglo Saxon Poem 'The Wanderer'

has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...

Explication of 'Lake Isle of Innisfree' by W.B. Yeats

the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...

Analysis of T.S. Eliot's Poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'

sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...

Matthew Arnold's Poetry

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

An Examination of Four Love Poems

so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...

'Calm' by Loma Crozier

pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...

Role of Women and Male and Female Relationships in Poetry of Yeats, Hardy, Arnold, and Tennyson

and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...

'Jerusalem Delivered' by Torquato Tasso

the aid of Fortune herself as a guide, travel to the Fortunate Islands. There, they scale a mountain, fighting a dragon and a lion...

'Nineteen' by Elizabeth Alexander

gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...

Analysis of 'Fire and Ice' Poem by Robert Frost

also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...

Lovers Voices in 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'To His Coy Mistress'

he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...

Emily Dickinson's 'Publication is the Auction'

womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...

'Some keep the Sabbath going to church' by Emily Dickinson

In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...

Greek Values in Homer's 'The Iliad'

withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight. This quarrel typifies how the Greeks valued personal honor above all other cons...

'Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift' by Jonathan Swift

as literal descriptions of Swifts feelings (Jonathan Swift). However, there is also a note of truth behind these statements that...

'I HAD been hungry all these years' by Emily Dickinson

turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...

'Black Magic' by Dudley Randall

regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...

Life Experiences and Poetry Themes

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

Analysis of Sharon Olds' 'Rite of Passage'

stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...

'Early Snow' by Mary Oliver

nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...

Analysis of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake

wealthy children, for the focus is on the fact that their faces are clean and their clothes are relatively powerful earth tones. T...

Elijah in the Desert Painting by Washington Allston

the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...

'Before I Knocked' by Dylan Thomas

is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...

Biography of 19th Century British Romantic Poet William Blake

begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...

Aristotle’s and Plato’s Theories in Philip Sidney’s Apology for Poetry Also Known as A Defence of Poesie

major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...

Using Aristotle to Analyze "Hamlet"

in thought - that is, the faculty of saying what is possible and pertinent in given circumstances" (Aristotle). The fourth element...

The Man Who Turned Into a Stick by Kobo Abe

within the play. CHARACTER - the personality or the part an actor represents in a play; a role played by an actor in a play" (Aris...

Miller’s Death of a Salesman/A Greek Tragedy

of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...

'America' by Claude McKay

gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...