YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Holdfast Poem by George Herbert
Essays 211 - 240
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...
line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...
evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...
his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
In six pages this paper discusses the dark side of social commentary and how the writers reflect their respective societies in Tom...
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 5 pages this paper discusses how Wordsworth and Hopkins perceived nature as God-like and powerful in beauty with a consideratio...
In a paper consists of five pages this poem contrasts and compares Orwell's essay and Sorrell's poem. There are no sources listed...
This paper consists of four pages and discusses the characterization of the speaker and the poem's connotation, rhythm, diction, a...
This research paper addresses the theme of posessive love in two poems by Robert Browning, My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover....
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...
Carolina, on July 22, 1967 at the age of 89. Although beloved during his lifetime, Sandburg remains a target of critical neglect ...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...
himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...
question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...
In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...
on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...
kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...
poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...
cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...
optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...