YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 451 - 480
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...
believes, would seal his everlasting fame (Irving 86). The poem championed Beowulfs desire for fame as a badge of honor: "In all ...
of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...
This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". Short essay responses to discuss...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Kipling's "White Man's Burden". The poem is placed in an historical context. Paper ...
This essay pertains to Shakespeare's "Othello" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-," which lists various qualities that are required t...
This essay pertains to the poetry of Robert Frost and discusses two poems: "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy...
the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...
also says that the flea is swollen with their blood (there is a strong suggestion here of the way male and female genitalia swell ...
in insular imaginary games the whole way. The narrator suggests that the two of them stop rebuilding the wall and question for onc...
1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...
accompanying poem begins, "Juans ax aches/His tracks lead backwards." The alliteration, assonance and consonance of his word choic...
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...
Thames, in the opening lines which state, "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near where the charterd Thames does flow,/ And mar...
mans mortality is Death itself. He walks among the graves and notes that the poorer people have flat markers and the more famous h...
include "back-yards graying / with knowledge, embankments blazoned / with pig-face whose hardihood / be theirs, / mantling with pu...