YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 511 - 540
road that was not as well traveled. The grass being green and not trampled tells the reader that few people coming to that crossro...
This paper discusses ways in which death is used as an allegory or theme on Jon Donne's, Death Be Not Proud, and William Dunbar's,...
This paper consists of six pages and reveals how familiar situations and places are used by the poet to reveal the alienation the ...
In five pages the dramatic monologues featured in Frost's 'Stopping by Woods' and Browning's 'My Last Duchess' poems are compared....
In five pages this paper examines how unique aspects of the American experience are featured in the poems of Langston Hughes and W...
understand our world and as we seek to communicate with that world. As the poem progresses we surely see elements that speak of...
hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...
he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...
But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...
that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...
enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
In five pages this essay analyzes the theme of loneliness as it is presented in 'The Whitsun Weddings,' 'Toad's Revisited,' and 'M...
In six pages this paper compares the influences and poetry styles of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. Six sources are cited in t...
the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...
is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
sooner will his race be run, / And nearer hes to setting" (lines 7-8). In this manner, Herrick sets up an ever-increasing sense of...
that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
night returning, anew began ruthless murder; he recked no whit, / firm in his guilt, of the feud and crime" (II 12-22). When Hrot...
is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...
which is extremely faulty, shows that she is easily corrupted. Her first instinct on eating of the forbidden fruit is to entice ...
matter? Good-looking, of course, dark hair, rather matted; the reddish beard several shades lighter; with very deep lines round th...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...