YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Poetry of Christopher Okigbo
Essays 481 - 510
The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
an exploration of what it means to be an American. "A mountain-born, country-bred,homegrown jibara child,up from the shtetl, a Ca...
a wondrous season. In this poem Keats also brings sounds into play in a very powerful manner that speaks to us of nature and of...
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...
another meaning. Graham is a poet that inhabits tensions. Most of her work pushes at somehow trying to reconcile the inconsistenc...
be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...
selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...
in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...
strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...
but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...
the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...
smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...
and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...
see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...
born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...
loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...
argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...
Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spiders web...
The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...
For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...
this book. Baca runs the gamut of emotions in this text that is true, but what the reader finds within Healing Earthquakes is onl...