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desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...

than they did many years ago, that people who appear happy and content are not always happy and content. Being wealthy and handsom...

a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...

are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...

the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...

the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...

without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...

as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...

from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...

as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...

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...

men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...

of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...

poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...

of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...

a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....

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 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...

terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...

the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...