YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1951 - 1980
is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
moral and religious instruction, Herbert includes an invitation to delve deeper in the "church" before beginning the next section....
sooner will his race be run, / And nearer hes to setting" (lines 7-8). In this manner, Herrick sets up an ever-increasing sense of...
reflects both the poet and the readers changing perspectives that can only be achieved through a rational and nonprejudiced examin...
William Blakes "The Divine Image" have little in common, as the first poem relates a mystical enchantment of a knight with a super...
of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...
(Brooks 9-15). The narrator is illustrating how the reader, or listener, who is likely Black would not have believed them had they...
that this is "Her hardest hue to hold." The budding of plants at this time in the early spring is the shortest part of the seas...
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....
The thesis argued in this five page poetic analysis is that the message that the lady should put her concerns about extramarital s...
modern Gothic writing lies with his ability to create a variety of forms of symbolist terror, using new structures and creating ne...
Lines 135 through 177 are the focus of this poetic explication of 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Samuel Johnson consisting of fiv...
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 ...
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...
This paper focuses on how death is treated in "Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie, and then compares with the same theme in "Jim " and "Mat...
This paper offers two blog posts. One on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the other on "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds....
In a paper consisting of two pages the ways in which man is rendered insignificance within nature and the scheme of the universe a...
In six pages this paper considers how Blake interprets innocence and experience in his poetic works Songs of Innocence and Songs o...
Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...
and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses...
Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...
In five pages a poetic explication of Theme for English B examines how 'coloredness' is represented by poet Langston Hughes. Two ...
In ten pages this paper considers the poet and her poetry in terms of her preferred themes and life as a recluse. Ten sources are...