YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 61 - 90
thinks of the woods as property, more then as just a part of the vast natural world. To him, this lovely wood is part of the man-m...
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
the perceived flaws in their models and so alters their appearance to fit their ideal image. Rossetti seems to find this appalling...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...
focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...
Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...
In eight pages this paper discusses how Robert Frost developed his persona in his poems 'Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening,...
focuses on four poems that all deal with grief. In "Stairway to Heaven" by Joaquin G. Rubio; "Dont Forget About Me!" by Jenny Gord...
This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...
says Sandburg, none of that matters; what matters is that the grass will eventually cover up the battlefields, the dead, the blood...
This 3 page paper discusses three of Wordsworth's poems, "The World is too Much with Us," "Composed on Westminster Bridge," and "I...
is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...
First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...
A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...
a thumbnail description of the rise of modern science beginning in the sixteenth century. This discussion offers insight into this...
First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...
the later part of the 19th century, who witnessed much of Chicagos history. He saw it in the early days of the 20th century when w...
the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...
that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...
(VII). In this he is telling Beowulf that he had many apparently noble men claiming they would get rid of the beast but they drank...
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...
But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...
they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...
that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...
a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...
11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...
his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...