YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Philip Arthur Larkin
Essays 211 - 240
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...
optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...
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...
lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...
on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...
somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
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...
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...
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...
on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...
readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...
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...
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...
his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...
1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...
envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...
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...
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...
was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...