YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 1981 - 2010
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...
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 six pages this paper considers how Blake interprets innocence and experience in his poetic works Songs of Innocence and Songs o...
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 ...
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...
for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...
uses is "disturb." the author is clearly shaken by this presence of someone else. This "someone" is likely his sister with whom he...
In six pages this paper compares the influences and poetry styles of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. Six sources are cited in t...
Lines 135 through 177 are the focus of this poetic explication of 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Samuel Johnson consisting of fiv...
The thesis argued in this five page poetic analysis is that the message that the lady should put her concerns about extramarital s...
all three in a way that is distinct from all other "political appropriations" of the myth (Schock 445). As a new heaven is...
modern Gothic writing lies with his ability to create a variety of forms of symbolist terror, using new structures and creating ne...
which is extremely faulty, shows that she is easily corrupted. Her first instinct on eating of the forbidden fruit is to entice ...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
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...
night returning, anew began ruthless murder; he recked no whit, / firm in his guilt, of the feud and crime" (II 12-22). When Hrot...
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,...
In six pages this paper analyzes the epic Beowulf in terms of its interpretation of the heroic code both in characters and in deed...
died. The poet feels that the entire world, in fact, should be in mourning as even "public doves" should have "crepe bows" around ...
for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...
she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
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...