YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1771 - 1800
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
Indeed, it is these characteristics which may account for Yeats continuing appeal to readers who dont normally pay much attention ...
happening with the sun and waves; a tiny, "bloody" sun arises at noon, and at night the water "burnt green, and blue and white" (C...
imagery and emotional intensity alone, but by considering the social context that they grew out of and how they address it, a whol...
Her 1999 volume of poetry, "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" exemplifies the ways in which Dove captures a moment, sees it for what it ...
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...
San Fransico but he would grow up primarily in Massachusetts where he, his siblings, and his mother would move to after the death ...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...
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...
the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...
speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...
of the thinking principle (Keats,1008-1022). Secondly, he believed that one was propelled into the next chamber simply b...
use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...
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...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...
his own set of biases that he probably brought into the telling of the story, and it can be assumed that he did not have as good a...
the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Af...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...