YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1951 - 1980
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...
that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...
about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...
is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...
alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
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...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
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...
(Brooks 9-15). The narrator is illustrating how the reader, or listener, who is likely Black would not have believed them had they...
of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...
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...
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
uses is "disturb." the author is clearly shaken by this presence of someone else. This "someone" is likely his sister with whom he...
paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....
enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...
In six pages this paper compares the influences and poetry styles of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. Six sources are cited in t...
song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...
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...
In five pages this essay examines what is revealed about ancient Greek history in Homer's poetic epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odysse...
In seven pages the chess symbolism presented in the description of the game in lines 618 to 678 are considered particularly as the...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
In three pages this paper discusses an epic in terms of characteristics and how thee are expressed in literature and on film in a ...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
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...