YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1981 - 2010
William Blakes "The Divine Image" have little in common, as the first poem relates a mystical enchantment of a knight with a super...
In six pages this paper analyzes the epic Beowulf in terms of its interpretation of the heroic code both in characters and in deed...
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,...
Penshurst is an example of hospitality and warmth regardless of ones rank in society. At Penshurst, there is none of the social d...
moral and religious instruction, Herbert includes an invitation to delve deeper in the "church" before beginning the next section....
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...
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...
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...
how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...
paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
(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...
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...
In seven pages the chess symbolism presented in the description of the game in lines 618 to 678 are considered particularly as 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 three pages this paper discusses an epic in terms of characteristics and how thee are expressed in literature and on film in a ...
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" ...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...
In a paper consisting of 7 pages Milton's 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' is compared with 'Christmas' by Herbert. There ar...
Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...
for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...
died. The poet feels that the entire world, in fact, should be in mourning as even "public doves" should have "crepe bows" around ...
all three in a way that is distinct from all other "political appropriations" of the myth (Schock 445). As a new heaven is...