YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Philip Arthur Larkin
Essays 1081 - 1110
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...
have adopted something of a double standard. They have expected her to behave in the modest and subservient way which is usual for...
so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
mind. This is precisely what Sherlock Holmes does when he and Watson meet the mysterious owner of a cane which came into their po...
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
who has always studied hard and done what is right in order to get ahead. He has gone to college and is a successful lawyer. In es...
The reason Koestler has given these injuries to the man who once led the revolution is that he is now aged, useless, and must serv...
who led others astray" (Booth and Fowler 52). Enron spiraled into bankruptcy because Arthur Anderson notified Enrons offic...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...
stories(Rollason, 1988). There is, of course, the same typical Poe elements, the triumph of rational reasoning, the superiority ...
and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...
leaving only what is possible, even where it may be improbable in order to find the solution. In catching the culprit it is also w...
and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...
war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...
(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...
like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...
serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...
sooner will his race be run, / And nearer hes to setting" (lines 7-8). In this manner, Herrick sets up an ever-increasing sense of...
King Arthur was the only one who could have united all of England because he was the embodiment of the old and new ways. As such, ...