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died. The poet feels that the entire world, in fact, should be in mourning as even "public doves" should have "crepe bows" around ...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...
song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...
understand our world and as we seek to communicate with that world. As the poem progresses we surely see elements that speak of...
hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...
the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...
so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...
gloves" (Auden 8). Tone As one critic states, "The tone of a poem is roughly equivalent to the mood it creates in the reader" ...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...
night returning, anew began ruthless murder; he recked no whit, / firm in his guilt, of the feud and crime" (II 12-22). When Hrot...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...