YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Temple Poem by George Herbert
Essays 1471 - 1500
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...
of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
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...
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...
the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...
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...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
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...
In five pages this paper mentions the poems 'To Lucasta' by Richard Lovelace and 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold in this contrast ...
can start by noticing what occurs in the first stanza. Milton begins the work as follows: "Fairest flower no sooner blown but blas...
This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...
In five pages this poem of D.H. Lawrence's is compared with a reader's first reaction as compared to second and third readings tha...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how human nature's 'unspeakable' dark side is portrayed in this poem and play. Fou...
In 12 pages these Tennyson poems are contrasted and compared. There are 12 sources cited in the bibliography....
In five pages religious satire, the notion of metaphysical conceit, argument, and metaphor are all considered within the context o...
hobo before he was twenty, and even served a rotation in the Spanish-American War(Academy of Poets). This experience was...
the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...
each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...
who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...
with its personae, while feeling extraneous or beside the point; more than sympathy or judgment, these alternatives lead readers t...
illustration of the narrator stopping and examining the two roads we are truly seeing what it before him. This sense of imagery...
exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
gaps I mean,/ No one has seen them made or heard them made,/ But at spring mending-time we find them there" (Frost 9-11). In th...
means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...
old and his first book at age 13 (Yarborough). In short, he was a prodigy who might have been destined for greater things, had he ...