YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 331 - 360
This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...
This paper analyzes one of Frost's poems, Acquainted With The Night. The author addresses both thematic elements and structure. ...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...
gaps I mean,/ No one has seen them made or heard them made,/ But at spring mending-time we find them there" (Frost 9-11). In th...
means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...
old and his first book at age 13 (Yarborough). In short, he was a prodigy who might have been destined for greater things, had he ...
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...
hobo before he was twenty, and even served a rotation in the Spanish-American War(Academy of Poets). This experience was...
heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...
Indeed, it is these characteristics which may account for Yeats continuing appeal to readers who dont normally pay much attention ...
imagery and emotional intensity alone, but by considering the social context that they grew out of and how they address it, a whol...
traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...
turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...
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 ...
sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...
see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
himself to be a poet at heart (An Analysis of A Valentine, 2002). Although he wrote all kinds of literature, poetry was his favor...
questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...
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...
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 ...