YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Two Poems by Robert Frost
Essays 1591 - 1620
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...
which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...
day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...
time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...
ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...
the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...
Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...
as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...
title, the fact that he notes how the sea is history immediately makes the reader wonder. They may wonder about how the ocean is r...
5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...
While there is a sense of pride, it is not an arrogant pride or a pride that is only involved in self for Beowulf is proud of bein...
has what might be considered a god-like perspective. That puts him in a place where he can not only look at the city, but judge it...
who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...
latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...
(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...
and trash everywhere (Ainsworth). To her right is her grandson, dressed in blue short and a white t-shirt; he appears to be about ...
a leech, which is the "host" (Heyen 24). "They would grow together, if the snapper lived" (Heyen 25). In this one can well argue t...
Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...
mighty war in Italy, beat down proud nations, give his people laws, found them a city, a matter of three years, from victory to se...
include "back-yards graying / with knowledge, embankments blazoned / with pig-face whose hardihood / be theirs, / mantling with pu...
She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...
mans mortality is Death itself. He walks among the graves and notes that the poorer people have flat markers and the more famous h...
a shared, antagonistic experience, and in the process radicalized poetry. This is attributed to Ciardi and di Prima, who brought w...
of the Puerto Rican dream to its death and the deaths of those who made up his poets society, but it is a stretch to say that it m...
Thames, in the opening lines which state, "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near where the charterd Thames does flow,/ And mar...
In five pages this Portuguese poem of the 16th century is examined in terms of the expression of dogmatism and nationalism by the ...
takes on the tone of condescension and intolerance for the manner in which women have historical been portrayed. Swifts interest ...
The ways in which Tennyson's poems 'The Palace of Art' and 'The Poet' express the poet's attitudes regarding politics, morality, a...