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levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...

beginning of this countrys history. Emerson is also noted for his preference for the simpler things in life and for his love of n...

array of individuals that Whitman clearly associated himself with as perhaps an American. He states, "I am enamourd of growing out...

mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...

between blacks and whites. The mother, in her simple yet compelling tone, does not want to see her son succumb to racially-relate...

to an era gone by as well as to the present time. The poem begins "Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Are sharpening...

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

done if they are to change their existence. She wonders if its possible for women to ever be truly happy. She wonders if existence...

"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

a "crowd" and Wordsworth adds that they toss "their heads in a sprightly dance" (line 12). In other words, the poet is pictured as...

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...

at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...

why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...

few lines further on: "he...ventured on foot, attired in his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into the m...

in the literature, making it difficult for research to validate the pedagogy" (Barrett). It is her basic purpose in writing this p...

regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...

in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...

that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...

womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...

In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...

other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

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...

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...

the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...

as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...

intellect that he exhibits now are a logical fulfillment of his childhood promise. He has grown up to be the man his childhood im...

reader may have been a bit confused at prior lines that spoke of abstract thought and image, much of that could easily be contribu...