YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 331 - 360
Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...
poet of nature. For example, "The instinct of Wordsworth was to interpret all the operations of nature by those of his own strenuo...
writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...
"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...
it was / That brought him to that creaking room was age. / He stood with barrels round him -- at a loss. / And having scared the c...
holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...
scared woman. While she is now grown and teetering on the brink of emotional despair, she recalls both the idolatry and anger of ...
human rulers answers to the sands of time. The message: Power is temporary. Nature is forever. This is a common theme among Roma...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...
ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...
narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...
lost" (The Battle of Maldon: Introduction). In this battle, which involved the Vikings and the leader Anlaf tried to land ashore...
Adam is astounded by the plethora of life, beauty and vast expanse of nature to which he is bearing witness. While Raphael assert...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...
Clearly, this excerpt from The Prelude, reveals Wordworths quest for self-exploration. This is the story of a journey - not just ...
he falls from grace these divide from him. One of those identities is called Luvah, which was the part responsible for emotion and...
Throughout this we see that she is presenting the reader with a look at nature, as well as manmade structures, clearly indicating ...
lover on the edge of being lost. Donne promises that lover that if she abides with the callers wished she will be rewarded with g...
lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...
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 ...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...
the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...
hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...
we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...
all of the kingdoms riches and power for themselves. The problem is Odysseuss only son, who is the natural successor to the throne...