YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1741 - 1770
as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...
blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
inner soul of a woman to be appreciated for the ways in which she makes the lives of her family easier and more pleasant. A native...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...
the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
hobo before he was twenty, and even served a rotation in the Spanish-American War(Academy of Poets). This experience was...
with its personae, while feeling extraneous or beside the point; more than sympathy or judgment, these alternatives lead readers t...
illustration of the narrator stopping and examining the two roads we are truly seeing what it before him. This sense of imagery...
result is that he was able to craft a poem such as "Assisi" which has a gentle yet pointed grace and, as Brodie points out, a "dec...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...
seventeenth century in his impressive text of nearly 800 pages entitled, Religion and the Decline of Magic. Thomas demonstrated h...
not procreate indiscriminately but should rather follow Natures example and wait until circumstances are optimal in order to add t...
sort of image of things that awe us. Even in these two simple words we are presented with a magical picture of a time of harvest, ...
a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...
turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...
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...
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) ...
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...
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...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...
shipwreck (Anonymous, 2002; Junaidul, 2000). Wordsworth worked out his grief over this event in several poems, most notably the "E...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
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...