YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1561 - 1590
nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...
safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...
in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...
is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...
is characteristic of Plaths works. "Back of the Connecticut, the river-level Flats of Hadley...
not change in a factory and the intervals are always the same. With that in mind we look at the first stanza of Frosts poem. In...
An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...
the defeat of Troy and it is about the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and throughout his travels, the story "provides a pi...
Warren in his famous essay on "Mariner" stated the primary theme is that humanity needs to, somehow, live in harmony with Nature, ...
questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...
the Irish countryside. Thoor Ballylee was Yeats famous summer home, and Coole Park refers to the nearby estate of Yeats life-long ...
are structured in the form of questions, which are subsequently answered throughout the poem (Holloway 147-148). His declaration ...
Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...
its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...
various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...
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...
and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...
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...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...
While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...
of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...
Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...
in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...
when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...
was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...
confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...