YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 661 - 690
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...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
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...
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...
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 speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
creating a believable psychological portrait based on this duke, which is largely considered to be accurate according to Renaissan...
the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...
powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...
have learned to "fly" and to "sing," that is, that they have become responsible adults, capable of living and contributing to soci...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
my brain. Never show fear (Free verse) Animals and small children know when youre afraid. They growl and bite, or cry and fight ...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...
implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...
to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...
is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...