YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1891 - 1920
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places...
the layers will not reveal any great secrets. And that appears to be breaking the examiners heart. The reader should keep in mind...
to "enjoy" whatever society had to offer, or whatever society insisted on the citizen possessing in order to follow the norm. Th...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
melted, and I let it fall and break" (Frost 9-13). This section of the poem clearly offers the reader the image of winter coming o...
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...
$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...
and to help win over his coy mistress" (Reiff, 2002, p. 196). The first person pronouns "vary between the singular, which emphasiz...
Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...
things in daily life that he does. Despite this, he and his classmates have a lot in common: they all need to sleep, drink and e...
First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...
turn brown; leaves drop from the trees in late autumn; butterflies soar for a short span of time; predatory animals kill their pre...
include "back-yards graying / with knowledge, embankments blazoned / with pig-face whose hardihood / be theirs, / mantling with pu...
She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...
mans mortality is Death itself. He walks among the graves and notes that the poorer people have flat markers and the more famous h...
of children and their behavior, their fears and victories. This paper compares and contrasts two of her poems, "The One Girl at th...
in spite of that, is often hopeful, even joyous. This paper explicates her poem "Million Man March." Discussion The theme of the ...
of the Puerto Rican dream to its death and the deaths of those who made up his poets society, but it is a stretch to say that it m...
Thames, in the opening lines which state, "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near where the charterd Thames does flow,/ And mar...
what might be a darker meaning to the poem. The last two lines are repeated ("And miles to go before I sleep") so that the reader...
States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cultures simultane...
the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...
geographical region to artists works Definition of and importance of voice The paper then presents these four sections: Sec...
party recite the poem removes the reader even further from the statue, lending it an even greater air of mystery and moving it fur...
reached/ was you" (Brooks 2-8). In this the reader is subtly illustrating how society, white American society perhaps, has control...
to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...
Stood - A Loaded Gun," has been described as her most difficult. This paper discusses the poem with regard to its meaning and some...