YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Underlying Themes of Various Poems
Essays 1411 - 1440
since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...
Indeed, it is these characteristics which may account for Yeats continuing appeal to readers who dont normally pay much attention ...
happening with the sun and waves; a tiny, "bloody" sun arises at noon, and at night the water "burnt green, and blue and white" (C...
imagery and emotional intensity alone, but by considering the social context that they grew out of and how they address it, a whol...
fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...
with its personae, while feeling extraneous or beside the point; more than sympathy or judgment, these alternatives lead readers t...
illustration of the narrator stopping and examining the two roads we are truly seeing what it before him. This sense of imagery...
who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...
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...
of the thinking principle (Keats,1008-1022). Secondly, he believed that one was propelled into the next chamber simply b...
result is that he was able to craft a poem such as "Assisi" which has a gentle yet pointed grace and, as Brodie points out, a "dec...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
inner soul of a woman to be appreciated for the ways in which she makes the lives of her family easier and more pleasant. A native...
San Fransico but he would grow up primarily in Massachusetts where he, his siblings, and his mother would move to after the death ...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...
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...
the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
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...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...
exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...
and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...