YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1711 - 1740
exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...
his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...
Hobson would never die as long as he was on the move. Until his revolution was at stay, in the sense of a ball which has stopped s...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
gaps I mean,/ No one has seen them made or heard them made,/ But at spring mending-time we find them there" (Frost 9-11). In th...
means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...
"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...
one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance ...
merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...
is presumably a nurse, and the nurse arrives at an individuals house at five in the morning: "At five in the morning/ I knock on h...
turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...
Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this short poem by Gwendolyn Brooks is analyzed in terms of meter, tone, and dramatic situation. One source is cite...
This paper examines the works of the Twentieth Century Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca. The author provides a brief biography...
as the person with whom she experienced an ordeal and yet still escaped. In contemporary psychological jargon, she could be said...
In eight pages this paper examines this much loved Iranian poet in a social consideration of 'Border Walls' provided with the incl...
In twelve pages this paper discusses the themes of an individual's responsibility in 'The Prophet' poem by Kahlil Gibran. Six sou...
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 ...
In three pages this essay examines how women are manufactured as described by Marge Piercy in this powerful poem. One source is c...
In four pages this poem is analyzed in terms of such literary elements as symbolism, rhythm, and technique with the author's inten...
This paper details a feminist reading of three John Donne Poems, The Undertaking, A Valediction, and The Good Morrow. The author ...