YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reactions to Various Poems
Essays 211 - 240
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...
read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Wordsworth and Hopkins perceived nature as God-like and powerful in beauty with a consideratio...
values within, England holds itself it is in less than positive light. Indeed, it can readily be argued that this is his right an...
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
In five pages this essay offers a contrast and comparison of Theodore Roethke's poems 'The Waking' and 'I Knew a Woman' and A.A. A...
In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...
This paper looks at Dickinson's views about and relationship with nature through a reading of several of her poems. The author lo...
In this essay containing five pages the symbolism and imagery similarities in Ammons' poems The Damned, Anxiety's Prosody, Kind, a...
exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...
"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes," "This is My Letter to the World," "I Had Been Hungry," and "They Shut Me Up in Prose,"...
A 5 page esay reviewing the Robert Frost poem. This paper comments on both the strengths and the weaknesses of the poem. 1 sourc...
The writer discusses the fact that in Beowulf, which is the oldest poem in English, many of Beowulf's enemies are non-humans. Thes...
apt description of reverie being that which is made up of a few simple things; and if those things are not available, well, reveri...
to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...
envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...
1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...
on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...
at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...
This 6 page paper analyzes Wallace Stevens' poem The Rock in terms of the way the poet discusses alternate realities. The writer a...
This analysis consists of ten pages and considers the poem's relationship to the Romantic period and also compares and contasts th...
In three pages Bradstreet's poems are evaluated by metaphysical and neoclassical criteria to determine that her poems are predomin...
In five pages this poetic explicaton considers the poem's meaning and examines the usage of tone, wording, images, and also discus...
This 5 page paper is a line-by-line explication of the poem The Convergence of the Twain, by Thomas Hardy. The writer explores the...
argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...
a feast of rejoicing, as well as to keep himself clean and well groomed; he is to cherish his children and his wife (Radcliffe PG)...
propelling them forward, as does the rhyme and the rhythm. The steady short-long cadence of the rhythm is, in this context, like a...
smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...
from these early stanzas that Lizzie is somewhat stronger - she is aware of the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit. It is ...