YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Underlying Themes of Various Poems
Essays 1171 - 1200
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
hobo before he was twenty, and even served a rotation in the Spanish-American War(Academy of Poets). This experience was...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...
as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...
blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...
speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...
use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...
shipwreck (Anonymous, 2002; Junaidul, 2000). Wordsworth worked out his grief over this event in several poems, most notably the "E...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...
Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
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...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
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...
a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...
of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...
Hobson would never die as long as he was on the move. Until his revolution was at stay, in the sense of a ball which has stopped s...
means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...