YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Philip Arthur Larkin
Essays 601 - 630
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
and bravery and excitement. They beg for it many times as they beg to be spun like an airplane or hung upside down. They trust the...
ceiling of my house where I could walk around in empty rooms all by myself"(Stanton). Everything in this place would be quie...
seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...
and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and c...
into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...
now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...
the tale. In fact, it seems that one of the general ways in which each character is depicted is a quick rundown of their lineage. ...
that in the summer of 1797, he retired in "ill health" to a "lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton" (231). Because of a "sli...
this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...
the defeat of Troy and it is about the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and throughout his travels, the story "provides a pi...
poet of nature. For example, "The instinct of Wordsworth was to interpret all the operations of nature by those of his own strenuo...
not change in a factory and the intervals are always the same. With that in mind we look at the first stanza of Frosts poem. In...
An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...
are structured in the form of questions, which are subsequently answered throughout the poem (Holloway 147-148). His declaration ...
Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...
survive, the most poignant works were his love sonnets. Surrey was considered to be quite the ladies man, even though he was marr...
This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...
in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...
theme (including any symbolism and imagery), and the technical aspects of rhythm, rhyme, and meter. Frost tended to use both categ...
himself to be a poet at heart (An Analysis of A Valentine, 2002). Although he wrote all kinds of literature, poetry was his favor...
questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...
lost" (The Battle of Maldon: Introduction). In this battle, which involved the Vikings and the leader Anlaf tried to land ashore...