YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The figure a poem makes
Essays 631 - 660
"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...
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
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...
the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
of a child. 1. "I a child and thou a lamb" (Blake 670). B. Dickinsons narrator is a dying woman. 1. "The Eyes around-had wrung the...
are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...
First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...
and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...
their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
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...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...