YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1681 - 1710
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...
occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...
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...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In twenty four pages this report contrasts and compares the themes of love and imagination as depicted in these works and also com...
In six pages this paper analyzes the ways in which Robert Frost's life is reflected in his poem 'The Road Not Taken.' Three sourc...
ties have ceased to exist. He says that although the world appears to be beautiful, in actuality, it contains "neither joy, nor lo...
In five pages this paper analyzes Gwendolyn Brooks' poems including 'We Real Cool' and 'Kitchenette Building' in a consideration o...
In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Auden employs the literary techniques of allusion and irony in his poem 'Unk...
clear the writers intent: to demonstrate the manner by which poetry and ones life experiences are infinitely intertwined. Nature ...
This paper analyzes the poem and notes Frost's depiction of the depth of the common man. This five page paper has five sources li...
In 5 pages this paper examines the sonnet structure of this 17th century poem and considers its use of religious metaphor. There ...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages Byron's use of literary devices in this poem are examined in an argument that youth is for love w...
been requisite in order to create the gentle, trusting lamb. The narrator never states that the Tyger is evil, but he indic...
In five pages this paper discusses what external factors influenced this poem by Elizabeth Bishop. Six sources are cited in the b...
human conflict is more than apparent. "I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the ...
reader may have been a bit confused at prior lines that spoke of abstract thought and image, much of that could easily be contribu...
In five pages Tennyson's poem is analyzed in terms of the way in which the setting serves as a mirror for the subject Mariana's pe...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages Emily Dickinson's contention that one should live life to the fullest and not be constrained by f...
In six pages this paper discusses how inequality is strengthened through repressing anger about gender roles and sexuality in a ps...