YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Sir Patrick Spence Poem
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this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...
that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...
"Mending Wall" we have a very powerful look at what self reliance can do to an individual. It presents us with a picture of what s...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...
about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...
song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
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 ...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...
enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...
he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...
But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...
war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...
like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...