YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 961 - 990
and lonely offices?" (Hayden 13-14). All of this speaks of a childs ignorance and how children are simply children, ignora...
Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...
things in daily life that he does. Despite this, he and his classmates have a lot in common: they all need to sleep, drink and e...
and to help win over his coy mistress" (Reiff, 2002, p. 196). The first person pronouns "vary between the singular, which emphasiz...
$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...
levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...
was time to allow Odysseus to return home. Should he be allowed to go back to Ithaka to be reunited with his wife Penelope and hi...
natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...
author or both; the last suggested interpretation is that "Ulysses is an Ancient Mariner who has never learned his lesson" (Landow...
20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...
Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him released ...
stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...
was raised a Catholic, he was christened in St. James Church (Eaves et al). During his childhood, Blake was surrounded by visions ...
consider myself a failed woman and a failed poet, or to try to find some synthesis by which to understand what was happening to me...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
ceinture is a cloth belt), strikes a romantic note, but again, these are what the gowns do not look like. This may indicate the gl...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
and trash everywhere (Ainsworth). To her right is her grandson, dressed in blue short and a white t-shirt; he appears to be about ...
readers, the reference will be obvious, but for young people for whom the Second World War and its atrocities seem unreal, it may ...
to understand his culture and find his place in it; its not surprising that his poems speak to his experience and his characters f...
that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...
/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...
which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...
ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...
day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...
time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...
the wood is in the air and one can see the beauty of the mountains if they only looked up. It is a beautiful image and one that cl...
book, Ares is battling Diomedes; he thrusts at him but Athena knocks his spear away and Diomedes stabs the god. Ares flies up to O...
but the presence of Winter coming on is clearly a powerful element, or theme, in the poem as the narrator illustrates how he is re...