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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 ...

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...

that is illustrating the power that was possessed by these women, but not the power that the men and women of the time thought the...

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...

as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...

men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

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

believes, would seal his everlasting fame (Irving 86). The poem championed Beowulfs desire for fame as a badge of honor: "In all ...

This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....

this particular poem. In many ways it is a poem that illustrates how far she has come in relationship to her self confidence as on...

after that mentions color; and then, finally, there is this: "Assisted by bells the next character enters" (Durand 83). Durand may...

of them all, the Sumerian Gilgamesh. Its not that Blake copied anyone, but his poem tends to evoke some of the same feelings in a ...

in relationship to these voices, fear is likely the reason a person does kill a snake. The narrator watches as the snake drinks a...

to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlords"; it is the y...

a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...

a leech, which is the "host" (Heyen 24). "They would grow together, if the snapper lived" (Heyen 25). In this one can well argue t...

nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...

of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...

of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...

is a pain I mostly hide, but ties of blood, or seed, endure, and even now I feel inside the hunger for his outstretched hand, a ma...

ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places...

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...

his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...