YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The figure a poem makes
Essays 781 - 810
hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...
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...
enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...
that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...
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...
alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
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 ...
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...
serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...
(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
(Brooks 9-15). The narrator is illustrating how the reader, or listener, who is likely Black would not have believed them had they...
of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...
also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...
reached/ was you" (Brooks 2-8). In this the reader is subtly illustrating how society, white American society perhaps, has control...
"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
has planted a bomb. He sees a woman in a yellow jacket go in, then a man in dark glasses comes out; then two men in jeans talk for...
to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...
paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
in miracle I, "The Chausuble of Saint Ildephonsus," Berceo, first of all, describes the piety, humility and service of the venerab...
"I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep th...