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suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...

I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...

prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...

that is illustrating the power that was possessed by these women, but not the power that the men and women of the time thought the...

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...

as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...

men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...

of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...

poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...

a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....

of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...

a mystical quality that makes us think about what shes saying. Shes packed a lot of thought into a very few lines. The poem is par...

the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...

in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...

occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...

In sage debates...To save the state" (Homer Book I). The reader begins to see that Telemachus is not wise enough to be prepared fo...

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

director, "having created us alive, then no longer wished, or was he able, to put us materially into a work of art. And this, sir,...

for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...