YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Underlying Themes of Various Poems
Essays 991 - 1020
pool one day. She thought about their lives and how they felt and realized they were victims of a society and also young me who de...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
won your town the race x / x /...
keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...
to have stood, though free to fall" (Milton Book III). In this we see that Adam had the freedom to make a choice, and in that free...
other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...
from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...
as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...
of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...
people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...
in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...