YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Underlying Themes of Various Poems
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shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...
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...
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...
of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...
described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...
women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...
the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...
in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...
He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...
Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...
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...
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...
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...
the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...
the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
lost" (The Battle of Maldon: Introduction). In this battle, which involved the Vikings and the leader Anlaf tried to land ashore...
great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it"(Whitman 2003). This would seem to show a type of reflection on...
lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...
to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...