YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Underlying Themes of Various Poems
Essays 61 - 90
Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...
First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...
A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...
focuses on four poems that all deal with grief. In "Stairway to Heaven" by Joaquin G. Rubio; "Dont Forget About Me!" by Jenny Gord...
thinks of the woods as property, more then as just a part of the vast natural world. To him, this lovely wood is part of the man-m...
the Berlin wall. And we also know that there will be just a "touch" of whimsy about the poem, when it begins with "something ther...
the perceived flaws in their models and so alters their appearance to fit their ideal image. Rossetti seems to find this appalling...
To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...
This essay pertains to Wilfred Owen's poem, which captures the horror of World War I. Five pages in length, seven sources are cite...
that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...
the later part of the 19th century, who witnessed much of Chicagos history. He saw it in the early days of the 20th century when w...
the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...
11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...
(VII). In this he is telling Beowulf that he had many apparently noble men claiming they would get rid of the beast but they drank...
a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...
they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...
But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...
In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....
could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...
In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....
In five pages the symbolism of master and slave is applied to the destructive marital relationship described in the poem....
being a man./ And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie/ houses/ dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt/ steer...
often simply a reality that was accepted as part of life. It did not necessarily make people angry or bitter or resentful in a con...
his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...
that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...
his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...
has to be cut for the stove" (Wiles). When someone dies it does not mean they were not loved, and they are not missed, just becaus...
people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...
girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...