YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Holdfast Poem by George Herbert
Essays 211 - 240
of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Spenser's "Sonnet XXX". A mechanical analysis of the poem's devices is carried out,...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Of Pruning and Production" by Isabella Southern. The poem's themes are gradually s...
An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...
In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...
This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...
This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...
This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...
lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...
the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...
his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...
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...
on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...
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...
This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...
This essay pertains to a Wilfred Owen's WWI poem that offers stark and vivid repudiation of the Latin phrase that it is sweet to ...
This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the poem “To his Excellency General Washington”, by Phillis Wheatley. This paper includes h...
1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...
envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...
God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...
Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...
to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...
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...
In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...