YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1441 - 1470
the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...
of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...
confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...
does not have a job people envision him as a beggar. But, at the same time there is an understanding that he is doing a Holy mans ...
However, the meaning is obscure and the student will have to pursue the tranlsation with more sophisticated tools than are availab...
has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...
are happy and playing and skipping and singing, that seems to make sense but is very lilting and nonsensical in many ways. This is...
(Corey and Corey 180). For heterosexuals and homosexuals alike, "Love is elusive... a goal we rarely achieve and, when we do, fin...
director, "having created us alive, then no longer wished, or was he able, to put us materially into a work of art. And this, sir,...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...
day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...
time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...
the wood is in the air and one can see the beauty of the mountains if they only looked up. It is a beautiful image and one that cl...
/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...
which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...
my brain. Never show fear (Free verse) Animals and small children know when youre afraid. They growl and bite, or cry and fight ...
ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...
the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...
who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...
title, the fact that he notes how the sea is history immediately makes the reader wonder. They may wonder about how the ocean is r...
as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...
While there is a sense of pride, it is not an arrogant pride or a pride that is only involved in self for Beowulf is proud of bein...
latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...
has what might be considered a god-like perspective. That puts him in a place where he can not only look at the city, but judge it...
powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...
in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...
and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...
5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...