YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Underlying Themes of Various Poems
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a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...
"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...
interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...
the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...
his own set of biases that he probably brought into the telling of the story, and it can be assumed that he did not have as good a...
the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Af...
sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...
their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...
When someone mentions "the road not taken" or "the road less traveled" it is often without any realization of Frosts famous poem, ...
see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...
loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...
shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
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 fifteen pages this paper discusses the two parts of the poem by Parmenides, 'The Way of Truth' and 'The Way of Mortal Opinions'...
about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...
as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...
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...