YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1261 - 1290
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...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...
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...
about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...
as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...
the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...
and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...
exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...
shipwreck (Anonymous, 2002; Junaidul, 2000). Wordsworth worked out his grief over this event in several poems, most notably the "E...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...
of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...
seventeenth century in his impressive text of nearly 800 pages entitled, Religion and the Decline of Magic. Thomas demonstrated h...
not procreate indiscriminately but should rather follow Natures example and wait until circumstances are optimal in order to add t...
sort of image of things that awe us. Even in these two simple words we are presented with a magical picture of a time of harvest, ...
a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...
turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...
old and his first book at age 13 (Yarborough). In short, he was a prodigy who might have been destined for greater things, had he ...
gaps I mean,/ No one has seen them made or heard them made,/ But at spring mending-time we find them there" (Frost 9-11). In th...
means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...
his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...
Hobson would never die as long as he was on the move. Until his revolution was at stay, in the sense of a ball which has stopped s...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...