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The boy was intrigued by Santiagos resolve and had faith this man he admired would come through. On one of their early fishing ex...

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

a woman-suit out of women (using their skin)-the ultimate in objectification" (Vorndam). Lecter is initially contemptuous of Starl...

the author and his works this short story holds a deeper and more historical position. In relationship to the story itself, anot...

simply slaves. They were not simply second rate human beings but have constantly played a very vital role in the history of the na...

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

plagued by both flies and a sense of overwhelming guilt. The stage is dominated by a statue of Zeus, "god of flies and death," whi...

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...

However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...

"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...

a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...

also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...

a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...

of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...

has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...

The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...

sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...

of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...

"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...

The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...

to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...

this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...

But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...

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 ...

this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...