YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Underlying Themes of Various Poems
Essays 61 - 90
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...
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 first place, and what do his "fond regrets" concern? He does not tell us, but merely goes on describing his walk with...
This essay discusses Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," and Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays." Both poems pertain to...
In four pages the conformity or nonconformity of Coleridge's prose in this poem is compared with the sonnet's and epic poem's trad...
Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...
in her eyes./ Maybe/ I will never be able to forget that and become someone different and better to my child. Connotation One ...
"the poem asserts that the only resolution in the modern world is irresolution. Hence, The Triumph of Life becomes a latter-day at...
present us with the sheer power of the sea. Now, as mentioned, these lines, filled with imagery, can be seen from many symbolic ...
In five pages the symbolism of master and slave is applied to the destructive marital relationship described in the poem....
It does not love flesh. It leaves a ring of cold in the wound." On the surface of this particular stanza,...
A 4 page review and explanation of the poem by Emily Dickinson. 3 sources....
however, and we begin to feel that the poem will clearly focus on some political argument. He then introduces the word "white" ...
this there are opposites that indicate the narrator is confused and lost and in something of a frenzy to find some balance, and id...
of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...
In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....
In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....
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...
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...
imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...
could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...
that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...
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...
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...
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...