YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 451 - 480
questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
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...
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 ...
and bravery and excitement. They beg for it many times as they beg to be spun like an airplane or hung upside down. They trust the...
ceiling of my house where I could walk around in empty rooms all by myself"(Stanton). Everything in this place would be quie...
seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...
and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and c...
into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...
and how they are seen by Wheatley as almost heavenly. She is clearly amazed at the figures and the power within these figures. Thi...
her part. What she didnt know was that Zeus was responsible for thwarting her attempts at consummating her relationship with Odys...
632). Thus, it is evident that the use of images is advancing the theme of coping with death. Fragile faces indicates those ...
now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...
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 Blake's The Chimney Sweeper. The Innocence and Experience versions of the poem are ...
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...
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 ...
considering they are the only words that are linked/combined with dashes, which clearly emphasizes their metaphorical nature. Rill...
also says that the flea is swollen with their blood (there is a strong suggestion here of the way male and female genitalia swell ...
the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...
in insular imaginary games the whole way. The narrator suggests that the two of them stop rebuilding the wall and question for onc...
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...