YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Unorthodox Writings of American Poet James Merrill
Essays 421 - 450
have learned to "fly" and to "sing," that is, that they have become responsible adults, capable of living and contributing to soci...
of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...
"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...
of dealing with this new and frightening situation (Modernism, 2002). The modernist poets had a much more disillusioned worldview ...
is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...
was not just one simple dream that Plath had, but an ongoing connection or vision of these three old women, these three witches wh...
blowing on my body, felt within/ A correspondent breeze, that gently moved/ With quickening virtue" (Wordsworth I: 33-36). In thi...
(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...
begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...
In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...
was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
the spider and it is true for man as well. Obviously, he doesnt actually say this specifically but he instead illustrates it thro...
formula that proposes to plot the poems value on a graph, Keating denounces it and commands his students to rip the offending page...
work. Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he ...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
This sentiment is further echoed in London, in which Blake contends that all people have their own sadness and anguish inside, and...
clearly the use of the archaic in the art piece itself, and its history, which presents us with sense of the exotic as well for th...
opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...
therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...
Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard, lately of the TV show House), to pursue his love of acting (Dead Poets Society). The glitch is th...
unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...
her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...
safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...
to play his part in society as a whole. However, he also maintained that the only way in which human beings could discover the tru...
wide range of emotions. Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Elder (1503-1542), was a pioneer of the English sonnet, which was a variation of th...
poem despite the metaphysical airs assumed by Michael Robartes. In this poem, Yeats expresses the concept that can be concisely ...
In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...