YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays 391 - 420
the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...
Latino, classical and contemporary" (Bixby, 2000). His later work reveal a man "who has learned his craft from the European tradit...
sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...
the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...
5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...
rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...
As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...
focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...
reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...
gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...
in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...
quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...
The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...
devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...
confused his contemporary readers, which often obscured from them his intent (Abrams 59). Therefore, neither Coleridge nor Blake ...
effect that the petticoat has on the male observer in the garment itself, which the poet asserts "Sometimes twould pant, and sigh,...
is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...
ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...
involving gender or related themes like romance and marriage. Yet, sex and love are highlights in the Inferno. Dante also writes o...
those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...
is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....
a steadily-promoted deck officer on the Titanic" (Lancashire et al. "Philosophy"). This balanced perspective (positive and negativ...
world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...
part. He and the Church had a love/hate relationship, to be certain. "Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy," st...
works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...
First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...
allows the reader to read approximately 10 pages, enough to get the "flavor" of the authors writing. Here, she blends humor with a...
are only 4-6 lines in length. "Contemplations" begins as what we might call a nature poem, describing the way in which the sun lig...