YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 451 - 480
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...
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...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...
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 ...
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...
the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...
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...
and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...
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...
said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...
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...
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...
holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...
"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...
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...
scared woman. While she is now grown and teetering on the brink of emotional despair, she recalls both the idolatry and anger of ...
Throughout this we see that she is presenting the reader with a look at nature, as well as manmade structures, clearly indicating ...
he falls from grace these divide from him. One of those identities is called Luvah, which was the part responsible for emotion and...
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 ...
the defeat of Troy and it is about the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and throughout his travels, the story "provides a pi...
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 ...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...