YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Underlying Themes of Various Poems
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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, ...
shared her names (Cisneros, 1987). This places a poetic emphasis on the lack of personal efficacious power women experienced in th...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...
too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
In six pages this paper examines how the growing up experience is presented in an explication of Gwendolyn Brooks' poems 'The Ball...
In five pages a trio of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks including 'Corners on the Curving Sky,' 'When you have forgotten Sunday: The Lov...
In seven pages this paper discusses the poems 'We Real Cool, The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel' by Gwendolyn Brooks and...
In five pages 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Dream Deferred' poems of Langston Hughes are compared in a discussion of brutal re...