YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 361 - 390
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...
the defeat of Troy and it is about the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and throughout his travels, the story "provides a pi...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...
not change in a factory and the intervals are always the same. With that in mind we look at the first stanza of Frosts poem. In...
An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...
are structured in the form of questions, which are subsequently answered throughout the poem (Holloway 147-148). His declaration ...
Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...
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...
the tale. In fact, it seems that one of the general ways in which each character is depicted is a quick rundown of their lineage. ...
that in the summer of 1797, he retired in "ill health" to a "lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton" (231). Because of a "sli...
this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...
poet of nature. For example, "The instinct of Wordsworth was to interpret all the operations of nature by those of his own strenuo...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...
survive, the most poignant works were his love sonnets. Surrey was considered to be quite the ladies man, even though he was marr...
theme (including any symbolism and imagery), and the technical aspects of rhythm, rhyme, and meter. Frost tended to use both categ...
in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...
between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...
works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...
keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...
suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...
be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...