YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Philip Arthur Larkin
Essays 661 - 690
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...
of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...
ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places...
is a pain I mostly hide, but ties of blood, or seed, endure, and even now I feel inside the hunger for his outstretched hand, a ma...
of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...
educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...
denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...
The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...
a mystical quality that makes us think about what shes saying. Shes packed a lot of thought into a very few lines. The poem is par...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
itself and thus establish its own limits" (261). This, necessarily, involves the collapse of boundaries, which can be "sexual, nat...
are happy and playing and skipping and singing, that seems to make sense but is very lilting and nonsensical in many ways. This is...
(Corey and Corey 180). For heterosexuals and homosexuals alike, "Love is elusive... a goal we rarely achieve and, when we do, fin...
and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...
woman. The narrator states, for example, "If the skies illuminate/ trasluces of paradise,/ islands of color of ed?n,/ it is that i...
that is the shortest day of the year; we can feel the cold, the deep silence of the woods during a snowfall, the solitude and the ...
are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...
of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...
her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...