YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays 121 - 150
For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
elements used by the author. The work begins as follows: BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reapi...
was the spirit of Zen, as he drew his imagery from the "taproots" of the earth, the presence of a moment (Hassain, 1995). The "su...
In eight pages this research paper analyzes 'Out, Out' by Robert Frost with the focus being on the poet's use of sensory imagery. ...
thinks of the woods as property, more then as just a part of the vast natural world. To him, this lovely wood is part of the man-m...
contemporaries, Frost sees no meaning in nature. It is simply emptiness. There is no God there, no Creator, just emptiness. In the...
Encyclopedia, 5th edition, and notes that irony is: ". . . figure of speech in which what is stated is not what is meant. The user...
Dutch, and darst thou lay/ Thee in ships wooden sepulchres, a prey/ To leaders rage, to storms, to shot, to dearth?/ Darst thou di...
a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...
as we do not think--We remain there a long while, and notwithstanding the doors of the second Chamber remain wide open, showing a ...
keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...
in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...
sooner will his race be run, / And nearer hes to setting" (lines 7-8). In this manner, Herrick sets up an ever-increasing sense of...
is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...
physical and emotional well being for the sake of his art. His erratic behavior became increasingly evident around 1575 when Tass...
lover on the edge of being lost. Donne promises that lover that if she abides with the callers wished she will be rewarded with g...
certain meanings through word choices. For example, Frost uses the imagery of the forest to illustrate the "snags" we al...
is said that much great poetry and other works of art are born of great pain. This may certainly have been the case in Arthur Lark...
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 ...
shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...
his life with his sister and his wife and their children, and wrote his poetry. There is, however, focus in much critical assessme...
narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...
When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...
While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
and writers in his extensive travels (Lutz 23). Linking him to traditions that span back to Odysseus, Harold is essentially in sea...
unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...
other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...