YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 151 - 180
This essay answers three question. The first pertains to the arguments presented to Achilles on why he should fight, the second li...
This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the poem “To his Excellency General Washington”, by Phillis Wheatley. This paper includes h...
This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...
An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...
This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...
poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...
cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...
optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...
In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...
lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...
himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...
In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...
on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...
readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...
at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...
evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...
line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...
his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...
envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...
1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...
people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...
and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...
monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...