YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Philip Arthur Larkin
Essays 211 - 240
This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...
lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...
An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...
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...
optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...
of life in our worldly form, of the power of the many mystical forces of our universe, and the concepts of reincarnation and life ...
from these early stanzas that Lizzie is somewhat stronger - she is aware of the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit. It is ...
lays dead. No individual has truly come to help him save for one youth, Wiglaf. In these particular lines we note the following: "...
the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...
of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...
himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...
the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...
faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...
narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...
break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...
the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...
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...
was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...