YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Underlying Themes of Various Poems
Essays 1561 - 1590
and how they are seen by Wheatley as almost heavenly. She is clearly amazed at the figures and the power within these figures. Thi...
some reference to violence, in the course of the consummation of the marriage. There are, she notes, elaborate rhyming stanzas, th...
he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...
632). Thus, it is evident that the use of images is advancing the theme of coping with death. Fragile faces indicates those ...
As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...
in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...
a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...
In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...
she is seen as pretty and thus she finds "Consummation at last" (Piercy 6). In this poem we see how it is the ideal media image ...
a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...
than they did many years ago, that people who appear happy and content are not always happy and content. Being wealthy and handsom...
without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...
of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...
as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...
and real images, illustrating his understanding of how poetics could work, how placement of words, creating imagery and also a str...
matter? Good-looking, of course, dark hair, rather matted; the reddish beard several shades lighter; with very deep lines round th...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...
of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...
her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...
are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...
help keep me in New York against coercion/ but now Im happy for a time and interested" (OHara 1-8). This is sort of a free form...
curlers, the hands you love to touch" (Piercy 75). a. The poem denotes cultural symbols. b. Symbols include bound feet an...
about 1594 onward it is believed that he played with a group of actors, however: "written records give little indication of the wa...
devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
itself and thus establish its own limits" (261). This, necessarily, involves the collapse of boundaries, which can be "sexual, nat...