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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...

road that was not as well traveled. The grass being green and not trampled tells the reader that few people coming to that crossro...

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...

However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...

This paper analyzes one of Frost's poems, Acquainted With The Night. The author addresses both thematic elements and structure. ...

this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...

noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...

holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....

this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...

"Mending Wall" we have a very powerful look at what self reliance can do to an individual. It presents us with a picture of what s...

But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...

talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

of the Muse to introduce its tale: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contendin...

point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...

calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...

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...

future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...

wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...

In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...

of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...

"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...

what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...

the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...

beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...

Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...

time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...

ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...

a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...

Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...