YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1831 - 1860
"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...
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...
be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...
she is seen as pretty and thus she finds "Consummation at last" (Piercy 6). In this poem we see how it is the ideal media image ...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...
itself and thus establish its own limits" (261). This, necessarily, involves the collapse of boundaries, which can be "sexual, nat...
oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...
for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...
are happy and playing and skipping and singing, that seems to make sense but is very lilting and nonsensical in many ways. This is...
(Corey and Corey 180). For heterosexuals and homosexuals alike, "Love is elusive... a goal we rarely achieve and, when we do, fin...
a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...
than they did many years ago, that people who appear happy and content are not always happy and content. Being wealthy and handsom...
In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...
in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...
As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...
his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...
a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...
as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...
the viewer. The next stanzas, however, bring the reader and the viewer, a more sobering message. In comparison to the characters ...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...