YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1921 - 1950
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...
one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance ...
merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...
know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...
"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...
interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...
the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...
a child will enjoy it to some extent, but it is safe to say that this poem was not intended for the young, though it may very well...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...
loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...
to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...
When someone mentions "the road not taken" or "the road less traveled" it is often without any realization of Frosts famous poem, ...
Penshurst is an example of hospitality and warmth regardless of ones rank in society. At Penshurst, there is none of the social d...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how success is thematically portrayed in Edwin Robinson's 'Richard Cory' and Emily ...
In six pages this paper considers how Blake interprets innocence and experience in his poetic works Songs of Innocence and Songs o...
a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
In a paper consisting of two pages the ways in which man is rendered insignificance within nature and the scheme of the universe a...
Objectification of humans is the focus of this poetic analysis of 'Pruned Tree' by Howard Moss, 'The Work Box' by Thomas Hardy and...
In four pages this poetry explication considers the author's future world vision and anger regarding God....
In five pages this paper analyzes how the theme of death and John Donne's depression regarding death are reflected in 2 of his 'Ho...
of a child. 1. "I a child and thou a lamb" (Blake 670). B. Dickinsons narrator is a dying woman. 1. "The Eyes around-had wrung the...
Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...