YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 751 - 780
I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
(1822-1890) was born in Liege where he also first studied as a piano virtuoso from 1830-1835. Franck first toured Belgium at the a...
than they preserve" (Killam and Rowe). The poem "Homecoming" which is among his collection which show the corruptive greed ...
great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it"(Whitman 2003). This would seem to show a type of reflection on...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
a whole. According to Hector, Paris has brought ruin on his people and has allowed his lust for women to drive him to insane actio...
role of the bees in Marvells poem "fits in with human experience, the reader most likely being familiar with the sharp pain of a b...
notice. That he soared toward the sun on wings made of wax only to have them melt, plummet him into the sea and ultimately drown ...
"Since this Britain was built by this baron great, / Bold boys bred there, in broils delighting, / That did their day many a deed ...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...
has what might be considered a god-like perspective. That puts him in a place where he can not only look at the city, but judge it...
who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...
the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...
latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...
While there is a sense of pride, it is not an arrogant pride or a pride that is only involved in self for Beowulf is proud of bein...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...
of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...
in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...
Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...
title, the fact that he notes how the sea is history immediately makes the reader wonder. They may wonder about how the ocean is r...
5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...
its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...
various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...