YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1951 - 1980
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...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
In five pages this essay examines what is revealed about ancient Greek history in Homer's poetic epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odysse...
In three pages this paper discusses an epic in terms of characteristics and how thee are expressed in literature and on film in a ...
In seven pages the chess symbolism presented in the description of the game in lines 618 to 678 are considered particularly as the...
seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...
and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...
night returning, anew began ruthless murder; he recked no whit, / firm in his guilt, of the feud and crime" (II 12-22). When Hrot...
gloves" (Auden 8). Tone As one critic states, "The tone of a poem is roughly equivalent to the mood it creates in the reader" ...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
which is extremely faulty, shows that she is easily corrupted. Her first instinct on eating of the forbidden fruit is to entice ...
are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
In six pages this paper compares the influences and poetry styles of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. Six sources are cited in t...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth; / Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the bett...
This paper discusses ways in which death is used as an allegory or theme on Jon Donne's, Death Be Not Proud, and William Dunbar's,...
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 six pages this paper analyzes the epic Beowulf in terms of its interpretation of the heroic code both in characters and in deed...
In six pages a poetic summary and explication of John Donne's 'The Flea' are presented. There are no other sources included....
all three in a way that is distinct from all other "political appropriations" of the myth (Schock 445). As a new heaven is...
Lines 135 through 177 are the focus of this poetic explication of 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Samuel Johnson consisting of fiv...
modern Gothic writing lies with his ability to create a variety of forms of symbolist terror, using new structures and creating ne...
The thesis argued in this five page poetic analysis is that the message that the lady should put her concerns about extramarital s...
how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...
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...