YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1861 - 1890
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...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...
in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...
described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...
women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...
the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...
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...
"Since this Britain was built by this baron great, / Bold boys bred there, in broils delighting, / That did their day many a deed ...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...
Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
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...
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 ...
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...