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often simply a reality that was accepted as part of life. It did not necessarily make people angry or bitter or resentful in a con...

different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...

his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...

It does not love flesh. It leaves a ring of cold in the wound." On the surface of this particular stanza,...

however, and we begin to feel that the poem will clearly focus on some political argument. He then introduces the word "white" ...

A 4 page review and explanation of the poem by Emily Dickinson. 3 sources....

in her eyes./ Maybe/ I will never be able to forget that and become someone different and better to my child. Connotation One ...

this there are opposites that indicate the narrator is confused and lost and in something of a frenzy to find some balance, and id...

of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...

what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...

the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...

narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...