YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1501 - 1530
women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...
the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...
"Since this Britain was built by this baron great, / Bold boys bred there, in broils delighting, / That did their day many a deed ...
He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
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...
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...
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...
in relationship to these voices, fear is likely the reason a person does kill a snake. The narrator watches as the snake drinks a...
He probably thinks back on the choice fairly often, but theres no anger in the poem, no sense that the choice was a poor one, just...
in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...
a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
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...
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....
include "back-yards graying / with knowledge, embankments blazoned / with pig-face whose hardihood / be theirs, / mantling with pu...
Thames, in the opening lines which state, "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near where the charterd Thames does flow,/ And mar...