YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The figure a poem makes
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other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...
shared her names (Cisneros, 1987). This places a poetic emphasis on the lack of personal efficacious power women experienced in th...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...
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how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...
haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...
by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...
Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...
How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...
Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...
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...
from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...
as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...
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...
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...
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...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
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...