YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 631 - 660
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...
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 ...
that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...
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...
is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...
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...
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
theme in that poets verse. Section 1 When Longfellow was born the nation was less than fifty years old. America was in the proce...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...
Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...
because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...
my brain. Never show fear (Free verse) Animals and small children know when youre afraid. They growl and bite, or cry and fight ...
of the forest as "yellow" tells the reader that the time of year is autumn. This signifies the time of life for the narrator. Fros...
topic was greatly on her mind. This can be discerned due to the fact that the poem is written as a riddle with "pregnancy" as the ...
are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...
of a child. 1. "I a child and thou a lamb" (Blake 670). B. Dickinsons narrator is a dying woman. 1. "The Eyes around-had wrung the...
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....
unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...
a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...
died. The poet feels that the entire world, in fact, should be in mourning as even "public doves" should have "crepe bows" around ...
expression in the sections of the poem where the persona deals with happy memories, and the sharpness and abruptness of those wher...
of sounds within any language, the speakers in a language community all feel that certain sounds either "the same" or "different" ...