YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1711 - 1740
would be needed if the creature were simply to be taken as male), is female--as the focus on the "slow thighs" suggests--as well a...
by minute; A horse-hoof slides on the brim, And a horse plashes within it; The long-legged moor-hens dive, And hens to moor-cocks ...
An explication of William Butler Yeats' poem 'Leda and the Swan' includes analysis of allusion, situation, character, and tone con...
In six pages this paper examines how poet Wilfred Owen portrayed sacrificing one's life for country in the antiwar poem 'Dulce Et ...
timeframe or the conflict. Both clearly make the point that a person is forever changed by war. Interestingly, both use similar ...
This 6 page paper is a detailed explication of Thomas Hardy's poem, The Darkling Thrush. The writer argues that Hardy is using na...
In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of its imagery. There are no other sources listed....
me leading wherever I choose. Out of the Cradle is a much slower-moving poem. It begins with the poet recalling a childhood ...
This paper compares and contrasts the universe and life outlook featured in these two poems by Walt Whitman in six pages. There a...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the images featured in these two poems by Walt Whitman. There are no other sources...
In six pages this paper discuses how the narrator and the speaking eye impact the poem 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman. There ar...
feeling his relationship with all other Americans. Uniquely American Most of Whitmans poetry illustrates what can be accu...
best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...
spiritual aspect, which is an illustration that many spiritual individuals can relate to in present day America. Freedom, in Whi...
to punctuation for Ginsberg is to describe his howling. He writes that he has witnessed: "Ten years animal screams and suicides!...
accurately and appropriately described as of a "shared identity." However, that shared identity also has a level of uncertainty w...
In five pages these poems are analyzed in terms of how the poet employs metaphors or imagery. There are no other sources listed....
This paper analyzes the Romantic aspects of William Blake's 19th century poetry in a discussion of Songs of Innocence poems 'The C...
In a paper consisting of five pages the attitudes of these poets regarding God are discussed in terms of how they are reflected in...
the Portuguese," the title of which is a veiled reference to her husbands pet nickname for her, inspired by her dark coloring whic...
most enthusiastic, and probably the most complete celebration of the myth of nature. The popular conception of Wordsworths att...
In five pages the way in which Baudelaire employs the grotesque in these short poems are examined. There are many secondary sourc...
In four pages a poetic explication of this poem by Edward Muir is presented. There is no bibliography included....
In five pages this paper examines how the young boys in this novel and poem cope with the death of a younger brother and considers...
In four pages this paper presents an analysis of the imagery featured in these poems. There are no other sources listed....
this particular poem. In many ways it is a poem that illustrates how far she has come in relationship to her self confidence as on...
being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...
unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...