YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The figure a poem makes
Essays 1411 - 1440
see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...
loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...
to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...
When someone mentions "the road not taken" or "the road less traveled" it is often without any realization of Frosts famous poem, ...
the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...
the trees brings back an plethora of memories for the poet, images of himself as a "swinger of birches," when life was not so comp...
seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...
ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...
(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...
traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...
Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...
The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...
know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...
"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...
interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...
the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...
a child will enjoy it to some extent, but it is safe to say that this poem was not intended for the young, though it may very well...
a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...
one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance ...
merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...
of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...
"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...
speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...
as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...
blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...