YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Underlying Themes of Various Poems
Essays 1561 - 1590
of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...
devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...
loss of an individual, perhaps most commonly the death of an individual. But, with the English tradition of the elegy there is als...
When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...
As these examples illustrate, there are instances where there are definite Christian allusions in the text. Furthermore, at the be...
home, but in a mythical way that remains difficult to obtain and hold on to. The first episodes of the series begin the process of...
ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places...
the layers will not reveal any great secrets. And that appears to be breaking the examiners heart. The reader should keep in mind...
the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
to "enjoy" whatever society had to offer, or whatever society insisted on the citizen possessing in order to follow the norm. Th...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
melted, and I let it fall and break" (Frost 9-13). This section of the poem clearly offers the reader the image of winter coming o...
and trash everywhere (Ainsworth). To her right is her grandson, dressed in blue short and a white t-shirt; he appears to be about ...
readers, the reference will be obvious, but for young people for whom the Second World War and its atrocities seem unreal, it may ...
to understand his culture and find his place in it; its not surprising that his poems speak to his experience and his characters f...
that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...
overview of varying aspects associated with leadership, concepts that include defining/assessing, transforming, developing and gen...
/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...
which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...
overwhelming, because they come with options: we can choose to see "300" now because Gerry Butlers incredibly hot, but we also kno...
Form This particular poem has a very clear pattern of rhyme. It is considered to a type of poem that possesses a...
(4-5). This sounds like a childrens rhyme and as such would seem pleasant but the imagery is of blight, and death and then it pres...
book, Ares is battling Diomedes; he thrusts at him but Athena knocks his spear away and Diomedes stabs the god. Ares flies up to O...
1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...
accompanying poem begins, "Juans ax aches/His tracks lead backwards." The alliteration, assonance and consonance of his word choic...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti are quite different from one another. Ginsbergs long and sprawling lines certainly look nothing like Snyders...
also says that the flea is swollen with their blood (there is a strong suggestion here of the way male and female genitalia swell ...