YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1711 - 1740
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...
"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...
In five pages the dramatic monologues featured in Frost's 'Stopping by Woods' and Browning's 'My Last Duchess' poems are compared....
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how human nature's 'unspeakable' dark side is portrayed in this poem and play. Fou...
Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...
The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
example, he paints a picture of fleeting beauty and dispair about both the frailty and temporary nature of life. He paints a pict...
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
lost" (The Battle of Maldon: Introduction). In this battle, which involved the Vikings and the leader Anlaf tried to land ashore...
great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it"(Whitman 2003). This would seem to show a type of reflection on...
In five pages this paper argues how this poem by Wordsworth is the definitive representation of Romanticism in its presentation of...
of the seasons, which have been going on their course throughout all of history. "And Titan on the eastern hill / Retires himself,...
This paper consists of twenty pages and discusses how irony is used in the poem to express meaning. There are no other sources li...
In three pages this paper presents a thematic explication of this William Blake poem as it portrays lacking worth, faith, and inno...
In three pages this paper considers the theme of lost innocence in a contrast and comparison of these William Blake poems. There ...
hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...
a whole. According to Hector, Paris has brought ruin on his people and has allowed his lust for women to drive him to insane actio...
role of the bees in Marvells poem "fits in with human experience, the reader most likely being familiar with the sharp pain of a b...
we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...
all of the kingdoms riches and power for themselves. The problem is Odysseuss only son, who is the natural successor to the throne...
notice. That he soared toward the sun on wings made of wax only to have them melt, plummet him into the sea and ultimately drown ...
shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...
people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...
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...